White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-11
LABOR DAY CELEBRATION
BEST HELD IN DISTRICT,
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people of this nation SO as to get the
facts before them of government and
the methods whereby they may come
to a proper comprehension and a
right determination of what to do as
to this question. We need facts and
not the fantastic ideals that men are
giving to us as facts and thus we
shall have a right solution of the
problem before us.
The status of labor and capital are
in a chaotic condition. This is seen
in the courts in their attitude toward
labor In the last eight years the de-
cisions of the courts in labor cases
have invariably been against labor.
And this against organized labor.
Not legislative made law; but court
made law has ruled the day. This
has been the course that has govern
ed labor l am getting very much
discouraged and Disguised with the
court-made laws whereby our labor
unions have lost battle after battle;
whereby our men have been enjoined
from striking, from uoycotting, from
sleeping and eating and living on
every side. We have been enjoined
from almost everything. Enjoined,
not by legislative law but by court
made law, by which the courts can
beat every act of the union, beat us
when on strike; and thus they call
out the police, the state police, and
the militia, and all the other useless
appendages of our civil government.
But the strange thing always is that
they are only useful when there are
labor difficulties to settle, and they
are never used for anything else. Let
there be labor troubles of any kind
then they come in to benefit the
union, to preserve the peace; but al
ways on the part of the employer
against the working man! They come
in to make everything lovely and
assist the workers to come in-ober
NIGHT.
Is 1t not strange that these law
officers always point their guns at
the breasts of the men of labor?
They are never pointed at the breasts
of the wealthy and the employers of
labor. The courts and the police and
the militia come and act only
through the orders of the general of
the state police; but really they act
from the private Offices of the
wealthy corporations. These things
are being used against labor, to COM
bat labor. We need to let this be
understood by the voters of the work
ing men of the nation and thus we
need education and organization.
No labor men and no labor mems
union want violence of any kind.
But the only way to prevent this on
the part of other men is by education
and by complete organizations; when
the entire phalanx of labor is ready
for victory.
But the courts are so particular to
take care of the vested interests.
Vested interests! That is the judicial
fiction of the courts. They hold that
an act that is perfectly lawful on the
part of one nan is not lawful on the
part of a number of men. That is
the law of the courts. But | hold
that an act that is lawful on the part
of n man is equally lawful when
done by a few. But, say the courts,
they must take care of vested inter-
ests. A mar has invested a thousand
dollars in something and because he
has invested a thousand iron dollars
in something or other the police and
the militia and the press and all else
must be used to protect his little in
terest of a thousand dollars; and
all this regardless of the interests of
the working man. But / know of
something else that l call vested
rights and vested interests. You see
that right hand? That right hand of
mine and your right hands not
that a vested interest? Have not we
vested interests in life and vested in
terests in the pleasures of life? And
in the usefulness of life? If the dol
lar or the million of dollars is vested
interest that living hand of mine, and
yours, Is equally a vested interest.
And he who uses that hand is entitl-
ed to all the muskets of all the
soldiers and the protection Of the
laws of the land.
But now another thought. l have
heard a great deal in my time, and /
have been talked to by orators and
others, and they say a great deal
about the dignity of labor. But l
never heard that the dignity of labor
ever bought a pair shoes for your
babies feet. Those fellows who
crate on the dignity of labor are per-
fectly willing that the laboring man
shall have all the labor and all the
work and all the dignity!
But we men say to all such wise
Solomons of the age. give us justice
and the right; that Is all we ask.
Now ! I'M going to say something
for which somebody may criticize me.
But / am used to that. NJ mother
started that when / was sn infant
and my wife has kept 1t UP ever since
But before I proceed to that point I
want to say a word to the wives of
the men of this working camp and
district. believe that a woman Is
just as good as a man. And private
ly, without letting my wife know 1t,
! really think that they are a little
better. (Shrill laughter from the
wOman SOW than fhaf tho womap