Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-08-07
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Z. 1907.
FAIR FLAY FOR The MINERS.

The Duluth and Range papers are
bowling in chorus that the Western
Federation of Miners must not get
a footing on Minnesota soil. They
seem to forget that whether the
Federation or any other organiza-
ton shall be a factor for good or
bad depends not upon the name but
upon the character of the member
ship. If the men working in the
range mines are of peaceable, law
abiding class they will be so wheth-
er their organization is part of
the Western Federation of Miners
or any other labor organization.
If the Federation in the western
states has been guilty of any vio-
lence-which the capitalist press
AYERS it has, and the labor press as
strenuously denies-it has been be-
cause the membership there was
composed of men who were used to
meeting force with force; who in
their native country had never
learned to look to the aristocratic
government for justice for the
masses, and therefore were led into
the belief that force was the only
remedy. That we have many such
men in this country is undoubtedly
true; it is equally true that the
big mining corporations have done
their best to induce that class of
people to come here, because at
first those people would work for
wages that an American was not
willing to accept for that kind of
work. In their anxiety to get
cheap labor the corporations have
planted a crop that they are now
reaping. They are not entitled to
any sympathy in this matter.
1t is said the Federation is So
cialistic. This is not true of the
organization; it is undoubtedly
true of large number Of it's mem
bers, for the same reason. In their
native countries the socialist party
is the only one standing for i'm.
provement of the conditions of the
laboring classes. Hence, these mer
are socialists before coming here,
without having any definite idea
as to what it means. Let it be re.
membered that the socialist doc.
trine is not one of force. It is the
anarchist, the very opposite of the
socialist, who advocates that doc
trine. Undoubtedly some of the
ignorant foreigners make the same
mistake as the American editor!
and politicians and classify them
selves as socialists when in fac
they belong to the opposite ex
IRENE. But the great majority O.
the socialist party believe in ;
peaceful revolution of the indus
trial conditions. Now, if these for
eigners are too ignorant of Ameri
can institutions to vote intelligently
is it not far better that they vot
by themselves for a small minorit,
party and thus nullify their owl
vote than that they should vote il
such a way as to decide the politi
cal issues they do not understand?
4 There are not enough of thes
people in the country to threate
it. The thing to look out for i
that the immigration of that elias
is checked. Perhaps when the cor
porations that imported them fin
that they cannot handle them as un
thinking animals they will ceas
their efforts to further such immi
grafton. The country is stron
enough to take care of those "
have here now. In another genel
alton the schools will have don
their work and made them fairl
desirable citizens. The law mus
protect the property Of the corpo,
sations as we'll as the civil rights {
the people. Meanwhile it is foil
for the corporations and their o.
gans to rail against certain OF
ganization and to make it .respon'
ible for the national traits. Of tt
people the said corporations ha,
imported under the fond delusiol
that they would make capital slave
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