Graham guardian., 1917-07-06
A REASONABLE ORGANIZATION

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ways been and is now patriotic
citizen.
Trade unions are beneficial tC
the different elements that make
up the field of labor in our coun.
try, in that they establish scale
of wages and hours of labor fol-
its members and such other bet.
terments that are gener a y
agreed to by employers.
Under the trade union method
of organization, the scale of
wages and hours of labor become
a fixed law for each trade union
or labor organization affiliated
with a central body and is the
basis in which contracts are made
for all work calling for the spe-
cial class of labor needed for the
work to be performed. All trade
unions and labor organizations
affiliated under the laws of the
American Federation of Labor
exemplify these real and impor-
tant factors that are secured
through organization and are
beneficial to the members of a
trade union or labor organization
that takes care of such elements
in the working life of our coun-
try that cannot be classed as
trades or professions, which re-
quire a certain number Of years
of apprenticeship.
Of late years there has crept
into the labor field of our country
an organization which seems to
exist for the sole purpose of de-
stroying the trade union element
in the life of our country and es-
tablish wages and hours and con.
troll of the different fields of labor
through anarchistic methods
the very worst form of which is
sabotage, or the destroyal of op-
position by a reign of terror, by
use of dynamite, assassination or
other murderous means, by
which human lives are sacrificed
as well as the destruction of prop
erty, such as were evidenced a
few years ago by the blowing up
of bridges in different parts of
our country and of buildings,
like the Times building in Los
Angeles, or the later murderous
attempt to secure control of the
machinery of government which
took place a few months ago in
San Francisco, when an explo-
sion of bombs on a street corner
killed innocent women and men
and manned many others.
This organization, known as
the international Workers of the
World. has now become a bigger
menace to the laws of our coun-
try than any other known agency
Of anarchisp, principally through
its success of enrolling in its or
ganization all those elements op-
posed to law and order, not real
Americans, but largely of for
eigners, as in Arizona, from
among Mexicans, Austrians and
other European alien enemies of
our country, which now appear
to be in full accord with the
plans of a reasonable Organiza-
ton.
The success of the /. w. w. in
bringing about the industrial
troubles in the mining sections of
the west and the threatened
trouble in the wheat fields, un-
less the demands of the miners
are granted, is largely due to the
undoubted financing Of the move
ment by the German govern
ment, which would be helped
materially if the copper produc-
tion Of our country ceased and
the wheat crop could not be har-
vested.
Locally, in Morenci, Clifton
and Metcalf. and in Globe and
Miami, and in Bisbee, the real
strength Of the l. w. W. organiza-
tion lies mainly in It's Mexican
aud allen enemy membership, and
not In American citizens, and
the fact that our
country Is involved in war with
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