Union labor is allowed to conquer at the sword's point a preferential treatment which should never have been refused; and the consequence is that its victory, so far as it is victorious, is that of an industrial faction.

The large employer and the state are disqualified from insisting on their essential and justifiable interests in respect to the organization of labor, because they have rejected a demand essential to the interest of the laborer.

They have remained consistently on the defensive; and a merely defensive policy in warfare is a losing policy.

Every battle the unions win is a clear gain.

Every fight which they lose means merely a temporary suspension of their aggressive tactics.