The Detroit times., 1914-12-16
LESS NOISE and
MORE WORK IS
NEED OF "REDS"
Recently Elected Socialist Con-
gresham Gives Ideas
of Party
.HOLLER LESS AND BE
ON THE JOB OFTENER"
Should Be No Child Labor in
Nation Declares Meyer
London

NEW YORK. Dec. l6.-A small,
wiry man sat at a cluttered desk IN q
tail building ON lower Broadway.
Behind HIM the morning sun poured
through a window which looked out
upon the roofs OF the squat buildings
OF the Bowery, and Hester-st., and
Chinatown-of all the teeming. turgid
east side; that densely populated
Tammany stronghold where. IN the
late election, "a Socialist defeated the
Tammanxl candidate for congressman
The man at the desk was Meyer
London, the first Socialist ever elect
ed from the Atlantic states, and the
only Socialist who will sit Ia the next
congress.
Twenty-four years ago, Meyer Lon.
don came to the east side, boy OF
Is. An immigrant ship brought him
from Southern Russia. AT first he
worked at anything he could turn his
hand to. but the desire to make some
thing OF himself was strong within
him, and he studied law at night until
he gained admission to the bar.
IL don't expect 10 make many
laws" he said. I'm too small a
minority. But am more glad than
can say OF the chance TO talk So
cialism from the floor OF the house
can preach my gospel, and | shall. "
You will represent the Socialists
OF the nation at Washington" Il sug-
gested. What would you say. to the
Socialists and the Socialist party, Is
their greatest need right now?"
"The greatest need OF the Social
lists" replied London. is TO turn their
power OF noise-making into the power
OF doing something. We make our
selves heard; what we must learn
how TO do Is TO make ourselves felt.
We must holler less, and be on the
job more"
What have you to say OF child la
Dor? What would Socialism mean
for that problem?"
There should be no child labor In
this nation London answered.
None Socialism would consider IL
a duty TO do away with II. But
would not favor wiping IL out, by ma
tional or state enactment. without at
the same time making some provision
for the people dependent on that
labor.
"very few parents are cruel enough
to send their children to work unless
poverty compels 1t. To cut OF sud
denly the wage. earning power OF
thousands OF children would be TO In
fiict dreadful hardship in many a
home. know live among such
homes; see with my own eyes why
children have to work. and what their
wages means. Some day this country
will no longer tolerate child labor.
and II will also, I hope, have learned
by that time not TO tolerate the abom-
inable economic conditions which
force parents to send their children
to work"
What OF Colorado7"
There Is only one answer-the
government must take over the
mines; own them and operate them.
The most radical step possible Is the
only one that can possibly be adopt
ed, if further tumult and bloodshed Is
TO be avoided. The sooner IL Is done,
the better for Colorado. for the min
ers, and the mine owners"
THE New Haven railroad rotten
ness-what OF that. from the Social
ist point or view?"
There are many causes for such
rottenness. One Is the looseness OF
the laws governing such corporations.
another the greed and unscrupulous-
ness OF the men who use them for
enormous personal gain. still another
the crookedness and chicanery that
prevails In the practice OF the law.
am lawyer, so | know what am
about.
Not long ago, IN big law ONCE
here. I saw an sS-a-week shipping
clerk elected president OF huge cor.
poration which was being high