Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-05-13


try of this country. For the evidence
look at Hazelton' Penn, where last
year 80 unarmed men were shot down
while peacefully walking along the
highways. Look at Nirden, III,
where / 8 men sacrificed their lives in
an attempt to get work and q living
wage only a few days ago. Look at
our own grand state of Ohio. Listen
to the pathetic wall of the wives and
children Of 600 miners at Jops, Ohio,
who have had but % days work in
FIVE months. Can these people BE
patriotic? Can they sing with any
just conception, "My country, It's of
thee, sweet land Of liberty?" Liberty
for WHAT To what? To exist or q
crust and live the life Of q dog 7 can
see no possible final settlement of tile
periodical troubles in coal mining, OK
cept that the government shall own
all coal mines and operate them for
the benefit Of al the people. These
men have q. right to work. All men
have right to WORK.
NEED or TIE HOUR.
The crying need Of this hour is chat
The state or the nation shallso organ
ize itself that tic Worl, shall be free to
every one who asks for it. Indiyidu-
ahsln has failed. For the state to
make work free is not one with a
greater task than was the task Of
making education free through the
public schools, and ii is infinitely
more important to the life of the
state itself.
"Th: sacred right Of franchise"
even, is of little consequence to a man
who is denied the right to work. Over
7G00 voters-more than 80 per cent
of all in this extraordinarily disiran-
chiscd themselves through neglecting
to register for the recent election.
believe that much Of this indifference
can Ee traced directly to men who are
out of employment, and who have
discovered that the right to vote
does not bring them the right to
work, and consequently does not
mean the right to live.
want to make this q personal mat
ter as far as | can. | believe that
every man and woman living in reas-
enable comfort must share IN the
moral guilt OF the misery Of the man
with weeping wife and helpless off
spring who is denied the right to
work.
NOBLER CONCEPTIONS OF PATRIOT
ISM.
Let us rise to higher ard nobler
conceptions of patriotism Let us
understand that love of country
means love of these men, our equals,
doomed to hopeless and despairing
lives in the vain, fruitlesS, search for
WORK Let us devote our lives to es-
tablishing this new right-the right
of every man to work and through
work to contribute the best possible
ties of his nature to mankind, a per-
manent and real republic of free and
happy because working) people.
The first step towards making the
right to work the property of every
man is the recognition OF the fact
that every man has an inhe@cnt
right to work. | think none will
seriously question that.
William Morris died at 60, two and
one half years ago, after lifetime Of
beautiful devotion to this noble idea.
TO know what was meant by work
worth doing" he worked in his own
factories, side by side with his work
ingmen, for with all his accomplish
ments as IN artist and writer, he was
also mas. err Of half a dozen trades and
Jack atnonc. Let us at once admit
the Justice Of this claim, and the way
to get it clearcdup very rapidly. "le
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make YOU free
TEE SPIRITUAL SIDE.
EMPLOYERS who admit this truth
will find a new interest in their bus
mess. thcv viii begin TO discern The
spiritual side OF running q large fac
tory. n lour mill, a ship ward, an iron
mill an ell property or a railroad,
and ,hc genius and skill that have
been rselul thus far in developing our
industries viii not be found wanting
in ability to So manage ,thgm as to
contribute To lie spiritual upbuildiug
of the whole people The social con
science once awakened III a man will
soon pat an end 20 any desire for
profit made from the toll of an over
worked or undelpaid fellow man, not
to say overw0rked women and little
children,
Tho social cDlSciclce must be our