The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
HAYWOOD TALKS ON
LABOR CONDITIONS
Continued from Page Ono

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Miners Federation
! What reading have you done along
! these lnes2'
began going to night school when
lad md science has always attracted
| me. We been going to some kind Of a
school ever since. and here in iaiI / am
taking course in law and economies
| We read Draper's Intellectual His
tory OF Europe. Lccky works and
Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall and Wallace );
( the social scientists Marx, Engels,
Morgan. Bachoefen. Adam smith-lct S
see. untermann and some more. Then
l have talked and got some idea Of
/ Llebknecht. Loria. Fcrri. Lombroso.
Lissagaray. Romanes and Haeckel. |
think science is the godfather of the
worker. he stands for him He pushes
him into civilization and demands a
! place for him. -
Science, You think. is behind The in.
! dustr1al movement You representa-
.'Yes. The hour has struck; the
toler must educate himself for his
part. AS Socialist, | believe the com.
ing new system will be proletarian, or
of the workers. The master and man
idea viii pass out with the bourgeois
The ancient prophecy Will be fulfilled
that the poor. will inherit the earth
You may look at it from the religious
viewpoint of just deserts or from the
scientific viewpoint of economic neces-
slty. It's true either way
Haywood paused. took down a book
on economics and a dictionary from his
shelf library, and pointed to his pen
cilcd comments
People don seem TO feel right to-
ward wage carners,n he continued,
some of them call us ignorant, idle.
ungrateful. Before | was twenty this
made me hot. Now ] know it is part of
tho capitalistlc system to view us that
way If we are ignorant and dirty.
we who do the world S work. why have
they been weighing us down with
burdens during all these ages instead
OF lifting us up' Who are our teachers
and examples. who are our good
Samaritanse The fact is business is
business. capital is capital. labor is
labor and if the toifsr ever expects to
be anything else than ignorant and
dirty and All the rest, he must perform
the miracle himself. Possibly we are
not all as ignorant as we are reputed
to be, We have hard time getting
knowledge, but what we get sticks BY
us and we re determined to pass il on
10 onr brothers -
He smiled and blinked his large dark
eye. 'This dictionary has quite col.
lege course in it. like to study the
definitions Of interest. rent and profit .
We all use dictionaries, - said Oar
row. and even then some of us can L
spell
Il believe Kipling doesn t know
how 10 spell, said third party, who
was literal
is that so?' queried Haywood with
eager. smiling interest. "Kipling is
ntNn Of
called ''The Sons of Mary and
Martha has cheered me many an hour;
so have his Plain Tales and his poems
on ships and engines ! wonder if he
was ever In lail7'
Has Deep, Musical Voice.
We asked him TO recite The big
miner, after combing his hair with his
fingers in characteristic thoughtful
way, recitcd several verses in n fun,
resonant voice. He had his own man
ner Of pause and emphasis, softness and
forte that was ms natural as II was
deeply affecting. The accomplished
Darrow also recited and read. George
Pcttlbonc, a little, humorous man. with
artistic tastes. only mixed water colors
and painted Gibson g figure of a babe
telling the fortune OF an old man, with
tho inscription, You re going on a
long Journey
Some one who was present could not
bnt she'd tears at hearing the voice of
Haywood IN deep, musical rYthm and
seeing that too omInous inscription
We got to the cellular theory of
Haeckel, aud the man who is on trial
for his life seemed wonderfully keen
upon the subject, though admitting he
had not read much, since The Rid
die and It's companion volume have
hr,I
spears were thrust into the hypothesis
by Darrow. who Is "A sccptic by nature
and thought provoker by habit, and
then Haywood called off the discus
sion.
''1t doesn't matter what these men
do or say, he observed. HThev can
get away from tine fact that progress
gives the future TO the toiler. AS 1
understand il, all scientific iuvestipa.
tion does away with superstition, II
gives an economic basis for everything
that is. 1t shows that the toiler IS un,
educated and all the other things that
he is because Of his economic basis.
he S poor. he s starved, he s bent down
TO earth by his burden. Let him own
the tools of production and distribu-
1ion. Let him not be exploited Let
buy and he will no longer be the un.
der dog. but really Nee and equal.
81 We had time to think these things
out for myself, continued Haywood,
lifting and squaring his large shoulders,
hands behind his back. as he paced the
cement floor beside the barred win
dows. Not here only. Many is the
long day | rode over the mountains
and plains on my little cayuse. meet
ing nobody, giving me chance to
think about everything in this world
and the next. Then ID meet men
alone or in camps. Some of them never |
knew what money was in their soil |
tudes. Some of the workers lust had
pieces of paper TO exchange for food /!
and clothes. Where there WASH Z much /
money there was more real equality. |
Men stood square to man, exchanging /
labor time on an equal basis, without |
the artificial machinery of capitalism ,
TO conceal exploitation, Ont in The viii. |
1erness the notion Of one man making
a profit out of another was naturally |
ridiculous: You d help and be helped
like n friend and brother; or if YOU
acted otherwise. YOU be honest
enough TO class yourself as a road
agent. AS for race prejudice, We
been thrown in with fnreiunnrs oil