Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-02-01
cate fyHllStS. dieiS, ho tVei"is
with much emphasis.
Right of Employing Gunmen.

with much emphhSiS.
Right of Employing Gunmen.
Meyer London, who was the sec
ond speaker after Mr.. Cozaleno, took
his predecessor to task. Il disagree
with one of the former speakers that
ignorance was the cause of the out
rage at Roosevelt" he warmly de-
clared. ut is not the question of
this or that sheriff. 1t is the princi-
pie of allowing private corporation
to hire gunmen to protect their pro-
perty In defiance of all laws. When
you allow private corporation to
employ gunmen to protect its proper
ty you are reverting back to the
ancient feudalism." Continuing
God In His wisdom distributed
stupidity and rascality equally among
the rich and the poor. Do not forget
human progress cannot be stopped
by the increase OF numbers" He
said that some time ago a great sta
tistician had ridiculously traced in
theory the root of all troubles to
there being too many people on
earth. He said that there should be
a change of policy that would give
every man a job rather than laws be
conserve the Jobs in this country,
'Intelligently organized labor must
| take up the cause of every worker,
| he said what labor wants today is
change in it's policy. We must face
! the present, the laws of life as they
are today" He declared that laws
could not be made to give every man
job, but that they could be made tc
reduce the hours of labor of the EN-
ploye and give every man an equa
opportunity, which would increase
the number of jobs.
| Operation of Unjust Laws.
Its a question of policy not the
| number of men that come into this
country" he said. He pointed ou
| that mans life is guided by the
trusts, what and how much he eats
even being controlled by these big in
terests He declared that If a private
citizen were a sovereign In this coun
try, he did not know what slavery
was. Continuing: THE underlying
principle of labor unrest is the per
mission for generations past of the
operation OF unjust laws, which al
lowed a group of men to acquire the
means that are necessary for all The
people. President Wilson, one OF the
greatest minds the world has produc
ed in this age, was treated with con
tempt by the Rockefellers when HI
sent a committee to Colorado to settl'
the strike there" He declared tina
capital reigns supreme, and that be
cause of competition corporation
cannot be human even II they wan
to. The speaker received a storm o
applause, being applauded Longer
than any other speaker of the after
noon.
Mary (Mother) Jones, the vener
able labor leader, who has grown ole
lighting the battles in industria
strife, appeared almost as virile a!
she did at the Auditorium last May
when she addressed a meeting pro
testing against the "outrages' in thu
Colorado and Ohio strike zone. Blu
the veteran worker stands on the
threshold OF eighty-four years ant
some in the audience thought they
could see that the long years of un
relenting toll have begun to make
inroads and that her vigor anC
strength have begun to fade and give
way to inevitable time, But hel
spirit has not dimmed and she ap
, peared as fervent In the workers
cause as ever before.
"The day of dark struggle of ths
working class Is probably now com
ling to close" she dipped. She de