The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-17
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. ia small,
wiry man sat at a cluttered desk in q
tall building on lower Broadway.
Behind him the morning sun poured
through 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
Tammany candidate for congressman.
The man at the desk was Meyer
London, the first Socialist ever elect
cd from the Atlantic states, and the
only Socialist who will sit In 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 j shall
You will represent the Socialists
OF. the nation at Washington" i sug-
gested. What would you say, 10 the
Socialists and the Socialist party, is
their greatest need right now?"
THE greatest need OF the Social
lists" replied London. lis to turn their
power OF noise-making into the power
of doing something. We make our
selves heard; what we must learn
how 10 do Is TO make ourselves felt.
We must boiler 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 1t
a duty TO do away with Il. 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 II. 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 IL will also, hope. have learned
by that time not to tolerate the abom-
Unable economic conditions which
force parents to send their children
TO work
What OF Colorado?"
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
list point OF view?
There are many causes for such
rottenness. One Is the looseness of
the laws governing such corporations,
another the greed and INSCRIPTIONS
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 a lawyer, so know what ! am
talking about.
mot long ago. In big law office
here, saw an $S-a-week shipping
clerk elected president OF a huge cor
poration which was being high
financed, A bookkeeper was elected
vice-president. and stenographer
secretary and treasurer. saw a
check for $4,000 made out to that
poor $S-a-week youth, and endorsed
over by him 10 somebody else. New
Ravens are being financed every day
in the big law Offices OF New York.
There's just one remedy--govern-
ment ownership of railroads, and
when we get enough Socialists, or
enough Socialism. in congress. that
remedy is going TO be adopted"