The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-29
Milo D. Campbell Gives Patriotic
Address at the Michigan So
ciety's Banquet
SOCIALISM is THE ISSUE
Mining Companies Are Upheld In
Their Determination Not
to Be Coerced

washington, Jan. 29-rThe Mich-
gan society's twenty-seventh annual
b,on,lct here was attended by about
200 members. Senator Townsend was
to,strnaster and the following took
rart i'm the program: James NJ
Schermcrhorn, Charles f.. Myers, BY
ron : White, Walter +. Smith, Pat
rick J.. Kelley. f.. O. Wood, Charles r..
vinegar and Milo ID. Campbell.
Mr.. Campbell in the feature speech
Of the evening. discussed in plain Ian
puage the copper strike in the upper
pcnnsua In introducing the sub
ject he said
4 fully realize that in these days,
no man can handle this question bare
handed without having his motive mis-
understood.
Fifteen thousand men, under the
direction of the Western Federation
Of Miners left their jobs i'm the copper
mines Of Michigan, and at once Il
reign of terror began. Governor Ferris
at the request of the sheriff of Hough-
ton county, ordered the militia into
Houghton and Kcweenaw counties to
preserve order and protect property.
Miners Well Cared For.
"When this strike was ordered there
was not "A mining region on earth
where miners were so well paid, fed
and housed where children were 50
well provided with schools, libraries,
hospitals, nurses and medical attention
as in tile copper regions of our state
And so well established is this
statement by every investigation, that
for weeks the leaders of that strike
have not insisted upon any change of
wages or conditions.
"TEov have simply asked that the
mine owners take back the men who
left them. but with a membership
card iu their pockets pledging ale
glance to the Western Federation Of
Miners.
"ro this demand the mine owners
have said. No. We shall not hire men
who are the sworn slaves of such
men as Moyer. If we shall satisfy our
men with wages; if we shall make
them and their families happy and
content with their surroundings, we
don't propose that Meyer or any other
such leader shall destroy our busi.
ness by ordering n strike of our men
that hc may punish somebody some
where for some grievance, real or
imitation
why is there such antipathy to the
Western Federation of Miners? Arc
We opposed to labo runions? No, .
thousand times no. They have accom-
piShcd much for the bcttormcnt Of
labor. Nor would we suppress Il
rcaccablc strike.
But we have reached tire dcadline
over which neither labor nor capital
must step without proving this consti~
tutional government of ours to be Il
failure.
Stirred Up Socialists.
When the armories of Michigan re-
spondcd To the order of Governor Fer
rIS, when the strong arm of the eN-
ecu,ivr branch of our government was
thrown about that mining region
there went up "A howl of protest from
every socialist in this country that
mlliiarsm and capitalism must be
iought as one. Not because of sim
gle improper act on the part of our
soldiers, for such has not been charg-
"a, but it was because of the over
hanging hand OF government COM
manding order where riot sought to
reign
No other indictment need he lodg-
ed against socialism than it's antag-
"hiSm to the militia of our states. So
clalism teaches that 10th capitalism
and individualism must be destroyed
by peaceful methods where possible,
nut by force and revolution of neces-
sary.
Last May, in the city of New YORK
w a public discussion of socialism,
Dr' Bouck White. head resident OF
trinity house, Brooklyn. author and
ueoator, was chosen to present social
ISM with ID. John Wesley Hlll of New
YORK opposing. Thousands OF socialists
and others were present In that ad-
uress cf DIR. White, he used these
words
" violence would do the trick
u'ere Is no violence that we would not
resort to. The trouble is. the reason
Why We don't go into violence; the
JASON why we don't go into nitro
eNcerine is because ntroglycerine
's"t explosive enough. II dynamite
"ouiu do the trick. and would blast
"om The earth the class which YOU
.ep'esent tonight, we would sell the
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