The Arizona copper camp., 1915-09-11
Labor Day Celebrations

Why Workingmen should 60 to
war, should tolerate war or want war
IS beyond my comprehension. AS a
usual thing, in wars, those who DO
The lighting have nothing against
each other any more than you and |.
anu II WorKingmen would refuse to
so 10 war against their brother WORK
ingmen there would be no wars, but
uustry slaves of monopoly, slaves OF
an industrial and economic system
that makes them dependent instead
of independent, and because they are
taught party idolatry, religious idol
airy, national idolatry and supersti-
tion They are led to believe that. in
order to be patriotic, they must go to
war when their rulers get mad at
each other.
propose that the workingmen of
America amend our constitution and
chat they then ask the workingmen
OF all other countries to amend their
constitutions and governments so
that, before any nation may declare
war against another, that question
must be submitted to the people and
the people vote upon the subject, and
then that the amendment provide that
the ones that first vote for war shall
first go to the war; Let the consti-
tuition further provide that the men
who own the country go and fight
before the men who work for the
owners of the country do any fight
ing at all. If two per cent of our
our wealth or sixty per cent of this
country, why should not that two per
cent fight sixty per cent of all the
war? If you fix our constitution so
that the millionaires who own the
country will be required to go to the
war and do the fighting first, | think
there will be no more wars. And
then, again, l do not see why any
civilized nation should spend any of
preparing for war.
What right have l to assume that
some day, because we live in the
United States, the rest of the civil
lied nations of the world are coming
here to murder us, unless we do them
a wrong? And, again, in all our
civil affairs we are bound to abide
by certain laws. Those laws are ap-
piled and construed by the courts and
the method of trial is prescribed In
criminal matters the rule is the same.
If this be the law by which individual
may it not be applied to nations as
well? Why may not civilized nations
establish an international court where
all differences may be tried and ad-
justed according to just rules, and
thus abolish wars?
"Organized labor should insist that
every state and every government
should extend it's postal banking sys-
tenn until we have a government bank
in every county seat in the United
States, where all the people may bor-
row money at two per cent or less.
Nothing of vital Importance has
been done in Arizona by law. 1t is
true we have a few little labor laws,
most of which 1 wrote myself, such
as a compulsory compensation law,
that is not compulsory and that is
wholly inadequate, an employers Ii
ability law, and several others. True,
we have an eight-hour day for some
of our workers, but there are many
vocations not included. There is
much to be done. The question is:
Will Organized Labor take hand in
doing this, or will you allow all these
things to go by and, when they have
gone by and the opportunities have
passed, then you will devote your
time and attention to trying to make
the people who own the land and the
resources give you job?
I'm Australia, New Zealand, Den
mark and some of the other countries
the Labor Party makes the laws. The
Labor Party has run Australia for
many years. And why not? Why |
should not the men who do the use
full work of society make the laws
that govern that society? But one
says, If we do that, / will have to
leave the Republican party, to which
[ have been married so long, and the
other fellow says, If we do that
may have to leave the Democratic
party, to which l have been married |
so long. Party idolatry, party slav
cry partisan insanity have almost |
ruined the world. They have kept |
our people from being students of
and social science Party
idolatry is not only a national sin,
but is an individual sin and a sin for
which we do not have to die and go
IN hell to get Our DuniShmant-We get