New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
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ADVICE TOT. W. W.
King of Mob Orators
Warns Smiling Men They
May Get Tap on Head.
TELLS HUNGRY TO
STEAL AT ALL TIMES
Crowd Hears Footpad Doctrine
Advanced TO ThWart Work
Miss Flynn Speaks.


Ed Lewis. known as the King Of Mob
Orators, furnished the pyrotechnies
yesterday afternoon at the mass meet
ing Of jobless men and women held
under the auspices Of the l. w. W.
unemployment committee at Union
Square. An audience of some 300 per
sons listened 10 revolutionary ad-
dresses in Yiddish, English and ltal-
ian, but Lewis was by far the most
warmly received Of the score Of spell
binders
al notice that there are few smil-
ing faces in this crowd" remarked
Lewis. as he swung his arms in the
approved Billy Sunday style, pausing
ever and anon to mop his perspiring
face with a soiled handkerchief.
at is safe 10 say that the guys who
are laughing are not out of work.
They don't know what II means to go
hungry. When man is hungry
enough he stops looking for work and
begins looking for hardware. Don't
be surprised, then, you chaps who CON
slider this meeting in the light or Tree
vaudeville, if when you go nome TO-
night some OF us stick a gun under
your nose or tap you over the skull
with a piece of lead pipe. Further
more, don't yell for cop when your
watch is lifted. because the cops have
all they can do to watch us now
Needy Told TO Steal.
The speaker swept his arm in semi.
circle, indicating the small Gordon OF
bluecosts who surrounded the audi
ence. and then continued:
THE rest of you needn't think that
! have any sympathy for you because
you are out Of work and hungry. You
don't deserve any sympathy. A man
who is hungry and won't steal is
-- fool.
"If you are hungry, do as have done.
Go 10 a restaurant and order square
meal. When you have finished, tell the
manager that you are broke and ASK
him what he is going TO do about II.
IL you are arrested you will eat resu-
larry, but the grub may not be exactly
what you would term regular meals.
Above all, don't accept charity, either
from the churches or the city. Tell the
ministers and priests to 90 TO hell.
when they tell you that ]. W. W.
means Il won't work. plead guilty. !
don't want work. If you say that you
do. you are liars. Go up Fifth av. and
stop at any mansion and ask what union
card the guy who lives there holds. Ask
him what he produces what he has ever
done for Society," mean Society with
a large S, the Society that you and ]
belong to.
81 had chance 10 work. had q
chance TO 90 TO Roosevelt, y. j., and
break a strike. Under the present sys-
TEN Of society ! won't work, and don't
care who knows 1t.
"If you are homeless 20 10 good
hotel and sign the register. Get good
nights sleep and then let the other
fellow worry about who is going 70
pay for it. Remember that labor is a
commercial commodity. The man who
buys your labor expects 10 make profit
from it. IL he can't exploit you in such
a fashion as TO benefit himself, then
he closes his factory or shop and you
are out in the streets again looking for
a job. Refuse to work, ard capitalism
will cease 10 exist as an economic sys-
TEN. Unemployment is the rock upon
which the present unholy system will
/ founder"
City as Strike Breaker.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the woman
agitstor. told the crowd that the Munic-
/ ipal Employment Bureau is sending
strike breakers 10 Brooklyn 10 break
the boot and shoe strike now ia prog
ress in that borough.
you see that even the city govern
ment has no use for the class which
/ you represent" she shrieked you
are nonentities You don't count for
anything. They will give you Jobs at
the expense OF your fellow workers. II
you are content 10 take the bread out
/ Of another mans mouth in order that
your own stomach may be full, 90
ahead You will prove yourself worthy
of the disdain in which you are held.
Class solidarity will solve the prob
lem. Class consciousness will render
the minority helpless"
While the |. W. ". demonstration
vas IN full blast Samuel Hartman, the
anarchist, with a crowd Of followers
from the Ferrer School, organized q
counter meeting few feet away.
Hartman delivered a fiery address. IN
which he advised his hearers 10 seize
churches and halls as lodging place.
and 10 go TO jan, II necessary, IN order
20 obtain food and lodging.
His meeting fell fiat, however, follow
ng the appearance Of the second speak
er. young man. dressed in the latest
mode. upon whose finger flashed a large
and conspicuous diamond This orator
began 10 discuss the unemployed evil,
but was interrupted by a burly. un-
shaven auditor.
what does this guy know about be-
ING out 81 job ," hs,ksd the disturh.r
oHs, al dIsslsd W lks . Christmas