The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1913-06-06
PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE.

PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE. !
Capital as well as labor has its In
dustrial Workers of the World who adj
vocate intimidation and anarchy, says |.
the New York World.
What moral difference is there be-
tween the HaywoodS who are trying
to bulldoze government in Patterson
and the protected manufacturers VINO
are trying to bulldoze government in
Washington?
What moral differences is there be- /
tween the labor leader who threatens /
the employer with ruin and starvation
if he cannot rule government and the
employer who threatens labor with
ruin and starvation if he cannot rule
government?
i A reign of terror is a reign of ter
ror whether it is carried on by The
: demagogues of labor or the dema- |
gogues of capital.
| Before the Underwood bill had
paSsed the house, certain manufacture
ers who had grown rich by capitallz-
ing the tariff laws of the United
States began to threaten a general re-
duction in wages if their favored in
+, dustries were nut on a competitive
basis.
/ Mr. Underwood's reply was that if
any manufacturer reduced wages on
the pretext that tariff revision had
made it necessary, the Department OF
Commerce would proceed to examine
his books and ascertain whether he
was telling the truth or lying. The
.. facts would be made public.
Mr.. Underwood was instantly over
whelmed in wave of high protective
denunciation. When Secretary Red
field declared that he would carry
!, GU the Underwood program, some OF
these manufacturers, including Presi-
I, of no National Shoe Manu-
facurers' association, threatened eth
err to close their facories or to move
. to Europe That is the measure OF
! tariff bloated patriotism. Having,
:, been subsidized all these years by the
= American people, these arrogant anar-
= chists of industry now serve notice
= that the subsidy must be continued or
!; they will retaIiate upon the country
- whose opportunities and generosity
. have made them rich. They will &C
!, cept tariff revision only on condition
that labor alone is INDICTED. That
= lis their ultimatum to congress and
4 the president.
u These gentlemen are playing with
u dynamite as surely as Haywood and
:, his irresponsible followers are playing
= with dynamite. In an article in the
- current Outlook entitled, Tariff Re
- duction from the Standpoint of a
= Business Man." George P. Brett warnf
=. protected industry that
\, y Labor will not be '1iquidated," an6
Il it is quite right that it should MOI
lbe so long as the profits of manage
:, Ihents are what they have been II
II the past and what they are today
~ Nor can the. reasonable reductions o
= the tariff now proposed suffice as al
< excuse for reduction of wages Until
. liauidation has been ruthlessfy applied
F" to the evils of arrangements as these
I now exist. :,
= We believe that Mr.. Brett voices thu
~ the sober sense of the American. PEG
e pie. There is no more sympathy witt
:. the Hanan kind. Anarchy in evenln;
,sl clothes is no more attractive tnan an
- archy in overalls.
=. There is even less excuse for TIT
ls Hanans who are trying to bluff thu
d country. thar for. the Haywoods. Hay
- woods followers have at least tn
- excuse that they have. not grown rlci
,. under laws framed at their own d1cta
~ ton. They are the underdogs of in
- dustry, not the pampered pets OF
= high-tariff bench show. But in e1the
u, case. if the time has come when il
{ fdtstry must be at the mercy of labo
:, anarchists or labor must be at tn
III mercy of capitalists anarchists, this
ie no longer. a free country and we nee
a new Declaration of Independence
Is An infinitely greater issue than wage
- is involved in the warfare that Hay
;, wood and his followers are wagin
"a against society, and an lnhnltei
lq greater issue than tariff schedules
le involved in the warfare that protec'
e ed industry promises to wage agaIns
FL society. Both issues might as we
be fought out at once, with all IN
Oh powers of constitutional governmen
), that society can command.