Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-27
ny J. c. BentaII.)

cialist, did you?.
And you fred him and black listed
him?
Well, we just want to tell you that
his name is no longer Bill. He is Jim
now. She was smooth shaver when
you fired him. He has moustache
now. ~.
Your blacklist card hasn't been re-
vised yet, but Bill has.
And you have not moved. You are
still at the same old stand. But Bill
has moved. He went to town where
there wasn't a single Socialist.
He is making Socialists as fast as
he is making fork handles.
Of course it put our local on the
bum for a few weeks after you fred
Bill, because it was he who kept the
fires of revolt burning within our
breasts. We got discouraged and
thought we would go all to pieces.
But the fellow you took in to fill
Bills place was also Socialist. H
was blacklisted by the boss that fired
him. He came from another town.
But, ike Bill, he revised himself
He has a new name and a new loca-
ton, but the same old spirit of revolt.
He is firing us up now. We are glad
he came. You didn't know that, did
you?
You will discharge him, too? And
you will blacklist him?
Very well, he will grow chin whis-
kers and side burns and call himself
Bob or John or Ed. or some other
common name.
He will go to a place also where
there are no Socialists and, like Bill,
he will make Socialists as fast as a
convict makes broomsticks.
So you are firing all the Socialists
in your shop You say there are ten
of them.
I see. And you are going to scat
ter them into ten other communities.
They will get into fresh territory, qeh
SAN right.
Each of the ten will make ten more
new Socialists. That adds one hun
dred Socialists to the crowd that you
have to draw from to work for you.
And these hundred will each make
ten more new Socialists. That gives
you one thousand that you have got
to try to dodge.
The fact is that you have done this
fool thing of. firing and black-llsting
Socialists so long that now we have
over ambition oflthem in this country
and close to fifty millions throughout
the world.
Just keep going. We don't mind.
We will just move and revise our face
and our name and our location so fast
that your blacklist card will be sew
eral years behind
We have no home. You have made
US homeless shy exploiting US to death.
We rent. 1t is always easy for a
tenant to move. You got our rent in
advance, so you need not worry.
You get to see that you are max
ing us more eager for Socialism every
time you fire US?
Exactly.
You are pushing Us clear out int
the sea of revolt. You are making US
work harder for Socialism, for tina:
is our only hope.
No, No! Don't try to change your
tactics and treat US nice. Don't leave
Bob and Jim and John at their Jobs
and think that you can .soothe them.
They will get the organization so
strong in their town, in their city, in
their county, state and nation that
your whole working force will be So
cialists and will elect Mayor, Cover
nor, Legislature, President and Con-
gress-all Socialists-and will turn
your factories, your mills, your mines,
your railroads over to the people for
use by all and deprive you Of the OPP
portunity to exploit and blacklist.
It won't work. boss.
II you fire us, We scatter the fire
of revolt, and if you leave Us alone
we organize and capture the indus
tries for the people.
You are up against It and we'd like
to know what you are going to do
about It.