Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-31
Roosevelt's Undesirable Citi-
zen" Gets Rousing Recep-
ton From Socialists.
AT THEATRE LAST NIGHT
Speaker Advances Radical Ideas m
Which He Hits at Capital and
Trades Unions.


Miners and the man who'll Roosevelt
has classed as an undesirable citi
zen," talk 10 them on The Gas
Struggle" Haywood is known among
the socialists throusnn"; the worl'
as a champion of labor. He has jus
returned from a tour in Europ'
where he attracted considerable
attention. He advances very Iadica
ideas in which he strikes InGiscriuin
ately at both the capitalist class aEC
the trades union class. He is a SooC
talker and he held his audience vel
last evening and elected applause ey
cry few minutes.
WAS A GOLD MINER.
Haywood up until short time age
was a gold miner in the western
states. 1t was while secretary of the
Western Federation of Miners that hi
gained prominence as a labor cham
pion. AS the result of a strike II
which he took a prominent part. he
together with four other leaders, were
imprisoned for a period of Is months
and was released only when the laoor
ing people throughout the country he
gan voicing their protests. He pro
claims that as result of the voice
OF labor having been uplifted for him
he owes his life to labor and TO the
lettering of the conditions surround
ing the laboring class.
INCITEs CLASS HATRED.
universal class struggle, Mr.. Haywood
told his audience of various struggles
In foreign lands in which he claimed
capital was arrayed against labor. In
each case he said il was a fight on
the part of labor for existence and
better conditions against added pow
er and added dividends for which the
capitalists are striving. Among the
illustrations used were the massacre
of the peasantry in ST. Petersburg
some time back when they attempted
10 gain an audience with the cZar;
the general strike in Sweden, the up
risings in Spain, in Portugal, in Egypt,
in Mexico, and the strikes in Wales,
Ireland and more recently the strike in
France. Haywood advised his hear
ers TO "go after what the capitalist
has, his money, and get every bit OF
it. Don't leave any of it for him.
Crush out his class and make one
class, the class of the producer"
TALKS OF ARSENAL.
The speaker touched on conditions
at the Rock Island arsenal where the
men are making an effort to prevent
the introduction of the Taylor sys-
tenn" of running the shops. He said
that capital, in the guise of the gov
eminent. was going to install that sys-
tenn whether the men liked it or not.
He then branded the system as one
which sought only to save dollars
and did not seek in any one way to
better working conditions or raise the
value OF labor. He was accorded
hearty applause when he said Damn
he said in part:
You don't have to stand for this
system. In France when the striking
railway men were forced back to work
through being called upon to do sol
der duty, they kept on strike just the
same in a peculiar manner. Freight
was moved, it was true, but trains
destined for Paris went right on
through and ended up at the other
side of the country and when they
were started back again they kept
right on going. You can go on a strike
too and yet remain at work"
OBJECTS TO MILITIA.
Haywood voiced strong objections
TO soldiery and to the militia. He
called the soldiers, workers who had
become the tools of the capitalists TO
shoot down their fathers, brothers,
and sons If need be at the cali of
the master. He Iamented the fact
that the workers on the island could
not spike every gun that is turned out
there the minute it is finished and
not be turned into plowshares He
told the arsenal workers that they
ought TO be ashamed of themselves
for hiring themselves out 10 make in
struments of murder and tools by
which the capitalists could keep them
in a state of seryitude.
HITS AT TRADES UNIONS.
The speaker did not confine himself
to protests against capital He dealt
a blow as well at the trades unions
and especially at the American Fed
Grafton of Labor which he branded as
an organization which is aiding and
abetting capital rather than looking
out for the interests of the Iaboring
class of which # is composed. He
said that in the first place IL was not
built on the right lines. 1T is weak"
he said, and for the last six years il
has steadily diminished in member
ship. For the last ten years, a con-
sentative estimate shows that $780,
100000 has been paid into it's treas
ury IN order TO aid labor and the sum
total of IT'S work is that now your la
Dor il not worth as much as II was
before, that is the buying power of
your wages is not as large" He
vent on and said that something was
wrong somewhere evidently and that