The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-28
Don't Crowd Us Too Far
(By GORDON NYE.)

mat awful head-SplittinG nerve
racking noise you have heard for the
past week is pardonable
Old man Otis has got to rouse Mr.
Dollar Plutocracy against the work
ing class, you know. and he cam
wake Mr.. Dollar Plutocracy into rca
live active life without making 8
noise.
Upon our word. it is scandelous,
Never in the recollection Of Old
Man Common Peepul has any thing
equal to it been heard. CJaps of edi-
torial thunder sounded, rolled, grum-
bled, growled and rumbled along the
Pacific shore. clapped again, volleyed,
growled as it rolled across the conti-
nent and shook the New Yory sky
scrapers until the window panes rat
tied and the house dog whined in ter
1Or.
Never before have we been so nest
cred by unearthly clamor, rancorous
roars, beastly bellowinss. bear yrowls
and zoo collection discords, as when
otis was moving heaven and earth
and the other place--tryinS to club
Mr. Dollar Plutocracy into adoptin Z
the lynch" law policy to rid CaIifor-
Socialists.
Here is paragraph from one of
Otis "safe and sane" editorials, pub.
llshed in his conservative paper, the
Los Angeles Times:
When their homes and their proper-
ty are seriously threatened by tho CO.
horts of disorder they (the p1utes)
Will look for protection first to the
RI fhn mil
to the federal troops, and if, as is
not even remotely possible, these
should prove Inadequate, there would
be seen a force of thousands of mer-
chants. and manufacturers, and law
yers, and bankers, and non-union
workers, and home owners of Los An
Seles, armod and marsh aled for the
protection of life and property, and
the carcaSSeS of some of the labor
leaders who instigated disorder and
dEnamiting and murder might pos
slbly be seen dangling from telegraph
poles.
When Otis hired editor got rid Of
that paragraph it sounded as though
the planet Jubiter had collided with
the earth.
Never heard such an awful, deaf
eninE. distracted fuss in all your life.
uld rOu? Yet in spite of all that
Otis and his decadent one-horse news.
paper can do, that young giant, the
socialist party, is going to make a
clean sweep in the next Los Angeles
city election. He is going to do this
despite the Otsbugs, dynamite and
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
Just how far the capitalist class
to
remains to be seen
Everywhere industrial operating
expenses are being cnrtailed, which
means that large numbers of employ
es are being discharged. On every
hand there is evidence that the cap
ltal1st class is wagins an active war
against the toilers
More than 81 900 men have recent
~ had their names stri<en from the
pay rolls on the railroads alone
twenty thousand lumber workers are
locked out by the lumber barons in
east Texas and Louisana-locked OUT
because the men tried to organize a
union to protect them from peonage
and from brutal working conditions.
The Sawmill Operators Association
resented this action on the part Of
its employees and closed every mill in
the INFECTED district" with the idea
that starvation will whip the workers
into subjection.
In the East the miners are working
half time, while the steel mills are
siashinS their working forces in half.
que primarily to the introduction of
improved machinery. The Fall River.
Mass, cotton mills have closed down.
throwing 5000 men out of employ
ment. At other New England points
thousands of cotton mill operatives
are out OF employment and begging
for work.
Every day has it's story of indus
trial retrench ment and of workers be-
ing dumped by the thousands In
land like ours, where with machinery
We create three times the amo0nt
necessary to supply everybody's
wants, there could he no starvation
unless somebody was robbed of his
1iShtful portion.
We know that the caDitalist class
own the productive machinery which
the workers must use to create
wealth We also know that the own
ershlD OF this machinery by the api-
tallst class gives them the right to
plunder and strip labor of nearly all
the wealth created. conseuuent Il Y
there is another story to tell along
side tho one about the suffering work
erS.