Arizona republican., 1918-05-30

ties. The state must when necessary intervene in the interest of the com monwealth as a whole to see that no wrong is d6ne by either side.
 The Rights of Labor
 "The wage worker has a right to all these things and it is to the profound interests of the commonwealth that he should have them. It is to the interest of the commonwealth that collectively and individually the wage workers should be in a position of economic safety or economic advantage: that they should have money in the savings banks and the power and dignity that come when men are relieved from the sense of precariousness in their liveli- hood In order to achieve this econo- mic power and dignity for the worker himself and in order that the com- munity as a whole shall profit to the full by the ample reward. this. ample reward should and must be given the working man. When he speeds up his work the employer must not be per mitted to usurp the benefit But the working man must himself do his full job. If a coal miner, instead of work ing eight hours a day at high wages, works four hours and loafs four; if q man in an industrial plant works only three days and idles three because he can get as much money for three days as he formerly could for six; if a riv- eter in a shipyard drives but half the number of rivets he formerly did why all alike are proving false to themselves, to their fellow worllmen and to the country. In such case their offense is different in kind from but in degree precisely as bad as the offense of the profiteering capitalists; and they are just as unworthy citizens as he is. The law of a successful democracy must be the law of ser vice and of reward measurably pro- portionate to the service rendered; service from the great and service from the small; service in peace and service in war. Let us employ our collective strength through the government so far as it is humanly possible to secure justice to each man. Let us also demand l from each man service. not as favor but as a right, expected by, and where possible eXacted, by the commonwealth Ideals For War and After
 "This should be our ideal while the war lasts. Substantially, and changing it is actual experience-the only true test shows change to be necessary, It should be our ideal after the war
 Hands must hereafter be treated as hands with brains and hearts, with l dignity and vision back of them. Here after working men must in a very real sense be treated as partners | They must have their seats al the council board. They, and all the vest of us must all work to- gether, to make this country 8 1 good place to live in for the children 1 of all of us. A square deal for every man. And for every woman; and fol the little children. An eight hour l law should be the general rule and generally with provision for a bonus on the basis of individual production
 Overwork, underpay, bad housing
 must all be provided against. Glass
 antagonism must yield to mutual re,
 spect and therefore to mutual forbear
 ance and consideration. Considera
 ton and patronage by the capitalis
 must yield to comradeship and part
 nership; and in his turn the working man must treat with scorn and abhor renee the envy and mean hatred whici
 made the l. w. w. and Germanizet socialists of our own land, like tn 1 Bolsheviki abroad, traitors to the grea
 cause of orderly liberty, of self-re
 speeting, duty performing democracy of the cause of freedom and humanity.