Arizona republican., 1918-09-03

He scratches and claws. He bites and growls. He is anything but a man.
 Made By Surroundings
 Take that same high type of man and place him in a mine. Put heavy brogans on his feet. Give him the coarse miners food. Put him down there for eight hours away from the sunlight and give him 10 understand that he must earn his living in that manner. Again he becomes a beast. lie will rebel. And finally the thought strikes him that these other men in the mines would like to have Q nicer life, and he looks to them for assist ance. He sees the need of organiZa- tion, and he says so. And let me ask you, my friends, isn't that the way your own minds would act?
 We are shocked at the crimes conl- mitted in Russia and Mexico, yet we are capable of committing just such crimes. and probably worse were we subjected to the same conditions Of life. Had the men in those countries been given the right to collective organizing there wouiG have been no bloody revolutions. The governmen. could have dealt with them and mobil- iZed their forces through their leaders.
 It was when we entered the war that our great president saw the real value of the workingmen's organiza- tions. In truth, it was largely because of the splendid cooperation of the American Federation of Labor that ne felt justified in asking Congress 10 declare for a state of war. And he did not underestimate the organization of workingmen.
 Thousands to War
 The United Mine Workers Of Amer lca alone have given over 50,000 of it's young men to the American army. They have given thousands of their women to Red Cross work and have purchased several million dollars worth of Liberty bones. Further than that, they have said they will give the nation coal up to the point of eX-
 haustion.
 Had there been no such organiza : tiohs of workingmen there would have
 been riot or chaos throughout our land
 A thousand wild ideas would be in the minds of the workingmen. and peace and order would have been as things unknown. There have been those whC
 have said that if organized labor were
 to continue that they would monopol- lZe industry and would put both in-
 dustry and the government ats theil mercy. But let us see. Just now there
 is shortage Of men. There is no vast
 army of unemployed 10 take the work CTS places. Every workingman and
 woman is in demand. Now, if they had any ideas of dominating industry haven't they had ample time and op- portunity in the past year to do SO And vet. the fact stands out tha1 they have not done it and do not intenl
 to do so. They have given their as.
 surance to both government and em.
 ploye, that they will continue to turi
 out the essentials of war and all thcl , ask out of it is a fair standard of liv ing for themselves and their families l together with certain security fo !, the future.
 Cause Bigger Men
 , And we have big honest employer of the same type. They are not inter
 ested in huge war profits. They ar
 not attempting to strangle the effort :. . of wCrkingmen, but they are doing th | | things that are real and helpful to ou | government and to the people of Ari = zona
 T am not unmindful of the un pleasantness that has existed in tn copper industry in your state and wer il not for the fact that our governmen needs every pound of copper that Ari a zona can give us. 1 would not touch O n this subject. 1 realize that there ha
 been an intense feeling of hatred an = distrust on each side of this question Il And while l do not want to depriv e any man of his desire to hate anothe 0 man, If he can get any good or pleas e ure out of hating him, yet 1 think tha S we are engaged in struggle tha b ought to count bigger with men the . mere personal feelings.
 n Men can nc longer be individual e in the larger sense. Society is s s. constituted and the whole human rae = has progressed far beyond the individ O ual that it calls for cooperation of tn
 highest type. A man has a perfeC II right to refuse his table or his hom II to another man. Those are privilege :, that the individual is supposed to re II tain.
 1T Should Think of People
 But when big national question
 being fought out one man in a give E industry has no right to say to an
 other man in that same industry: lc will not deal with you. We have notf j. ing in common Then he is trespass 'e Ing on the welfare of the peopl U Neither employer nor empioye has -e right to assume any such attitude. II workingmen are lettering on the lo 'i Or interfering with machinery, the en
 ployer has just cause for complaiI
 and has q right to be heard, either
 those who represent that workingma
 or by the government. And if an cn m ploycr miStreats a Workingman the l. that workingman has just cause f, 10 complaint and the matter should 70 Jointly adjusted. And again, when
 of e dustry reach the point where troub
 and the stoppage of work is likely
 occur, then more than ever the tv
 sides should come together and homes
 ly adjust the points at issue. Is the
 anything to fear from this metho, x Why should an employe fear to me -~ the man who pays him his wages, al
 why should an employer fear to me
 the man who does his work? II, Method Must Work .I There are those who say tt oN method won't work out. but l say he will and does and must if We are " have 0 progressive nation. My whC n'. life has been spent in just this kil os of movement. For years in the co W Wou mines in the eastern states the mine oe were living scarcely above anima IT. They were slaves. as much so as | eS chattel slaves in the South. I'll .s' were even worse. because they we ut