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The labor world., 1919-11-15

zation who is not a farmer. No one
can be member. of any union VINO Is
not employed in the industry OF the
union. The dominant economic In
terests of the productive workers OF
the state have become the dominant
factors in the political activities OF
the state. as.
The ''Povers'' Belong to us.
The miners, the railway workers.
the building trades, the great manu-
featuring industries. such as the STEEL
packing houses. printing trades tex
tile, milling and leather industries, to-.
gether with the farmers Of this coul@'
try, can control this country any hour
they will build and get together In
fighting machine so related to their
economic organizations that when
they have built the machine it can
not be taken from them.
Then they will need never again
to petition the government. They wilt
be the government.
The labor world., 1919-11-15
Up TO DATE FALL SONG

The. melancholy days are here, the
saddest of the bunch
For those who used to guzzle beer
and tackle free, hot lunch.
No longer doth a full grown grin
adorn the bar-keep's face
TO see his customers file in to set the
merry pace
Alas! No customers exist, no bar
keep and no bar,
The motley crew who won't be missed
has had to journey far.
There's cobwebs on the empty stein
and furthermore, we learn,
The nimble corkscrew doth decline to
do another turn.
The bung-starter is idle too, there's
nothing he can start;
Ihe demijohn is sad and blue, he'll
die of broken heart.
Full many husky, merry kid, whose
daddy fought the booze,
Since Uncle Sam clamped on the lid
will get more grub and shoes.
Awhile the thirsty parent must pro-
duce a lively hump
To quench his eager thirst or bust
around the village pump.
Wen change the tourists motto and
=. If worst shall! come to worst.
Tack Up this sign DER all the land
SEE AMERICA THIRST.
The labor world., 1919-11-15
CONGRSSM!EN 0RATE;;
COAL Miners FLAYED

Orators had a field day in congress
when joint resolution declaring DR.
the enforcement of obedience to ;.nd
respect for the constitution and the
laws'' was passed by both houses last
week because Of the mine strike. The
administration was endorsed in it's
effort to vindicate the majesty and
power Of government"
The resolution was a vehicle for
one Of the most beautiful exhibitions
OF non-partisan anti-unionism ever
witnessed in congress.
While the orators of both parties
were laundering, amidst the applause
of their colleagues, on the necessity
FOR constitutional rights, Federal
Judge Anderson was issuing his anti
strike injunction. in Indianapolis
against the miners.
The feeling in the house was shown
when Congressman King asked for
the insertion in the Congressional Rec
ord of a telegram to Secretary of
Labor Wilson from Acting President
Lewis, of the United Mine Workers,
This telegram contained the miners
side Of the controversy.
Congressman Blanton objected and
the Texas lawmaker declared he
would hang as high as Haman," the
"autocratic, anarchistic leaders who
preach revolution against our govern
ment:''
Mr.. Blanton was referring to the
coal miners, a group of organized
workers who sent $4,000 men into
their country's military service in the
world war against political autocracy.
These miners are now denounced as
"conspirators" while the coal owners
are permitted to charge war time
prices.
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Article Number III.
METHODS OF ORGANIZATIONS.

The scattered parts Of great ma
chine are powerless to produce re-
suits. 1t is only when they are put
together, and put together in a GER
tain definite way, that the helpless
parts become a machine able to pro-
duce results.
The overwhelming majority of all
of the people believe in justice. They
are convinced that productive work.
ers are all of the time victims of great
wrongs in the final distribution of
their products, The things which
need most to be undertaken in order
to establish justice and provide for
the general welfare" are matters of
very general agreement among the
useful people, but Individual conyic-
tions held by practically all Of the
people must remain incapable of pro-
duclng results. until the people hold
ing these convictions are got together
got together in such a way that to-
gether they become fighting ma
chine capable of producing results,
There Are Brick EnougEl-Time to
BuilG.
for quarter OF century the con-
vlctlons Of the people Of this country
have advanced in one direction and
the administration of public affairs
has proceeded in quite another direc-
ton. No amount OF arguments on
the merits of particular .,toposals can
produce different result. The de-
sired result in the administration of
public affairs can be obtained, not by
further argument, but by the effective
organization of those who are already
convinced and quite ready for action,
if only the effective machine can be
provided through which they can act
effectively.
The established political parties
were built in the first place to adopt
or to reject some very simple propo-
sitions. Their activities were for
long time a series of mass meeting
affairs
Both partieis were finally captured
and for quarter of a century and
more have been under the complete
control Of great private interests.
These interests are skillfully organ
lied. They are shrewdly managed and
are able to command and to expend
vast sums Of money in misinforming
the public. in misleading the voters
and in always having two or three
sets of candidates so related to these
big interests that whichever group of
candidates may be elected they are
found in the end to be the servants Of
these same great private interests.
Heretofore effort to organize La
Dor parties have been made after the
. same manner of loosely connected,
loosely managed mass meeting affairs.
with no sufficient centralized manage
ment. and usually entirely without
funds for reaching the public with
their own message, any, worst of all.
without definite proposals directly re-
lated to the conditions Of employm ent
to the income of the workers and to
the abuses of the markets.
A Mob or an Organization.
1t took the world some thousands Of
The labor world., 1919-11-15

There was a big "tie-up" in Egypt
when the Brickmakers' union went
on strike against the autOcracy of
old King Pharoah. Moses was the
business agent of the union, and old
PharOah wasn't any different than
the modern industrial Pharoahs who
are long on promises, but short on
:heir fulfllment. That was the
greatest strike in history. 1t took the
strikers 40 years to get their house
in order and before they began to
realize the full import of their sac
-ifices.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

"Give the workers good wages,
reasonable hours and wholesome con-
ditions," is the camouflage slogan of
the conspirators against organized
labor. That's it; they want to retain
their long held privilege of making
all the rules and regulations without
giving workingmen a voice in franz
ing them. They are to be the Judge
as to what are 'good wages, reason
able hours and wholesome condi-
tions," and that is where the clash
comes, just as the chattel slave pro-
tested against the same arbitrary sys-
tenn in the early part of the last
century.
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STAND BY THE TRADE UNION.

Not in recent years has there been
time when it was 50 emphatically
the duty of the people to stand with
organized labor.
The organized workers of the
United States are fighting the battles
Of the unorganized and therefore the
inarticulate.
One Of two things is going to hap
pen in America. We shall have
progress, or we shall have reaction.
The trade union movement is ever
on the side of progress.
Reaction can be of two kinds. It
can be the brutal. profit hungry :e-
action we have known always, or it
can be the wild. unreasoning reac-
tion that is falsely called radicalism
by it's devotees. This is reaction be-
cause it ends in reaction Through
destruction it sets back the clock OF
true progress.
The American trade union move
ment is a movement OF true progress.
because il seeks progress only
through constructive channels. It
seeks to build up, never to tear
down. 1t is the great safeguard
against the reaction of Bourbonism
and the reaction of bolshevism.
Rest assured of this great fact:
The powers Of Bourbonism believe
that today is their day and that to-
morrow will also be their day if they
grasp things firmly today.
The American trade union move
ment is the movement of American
safety. 1t cannot be fooled; it can
not be rushed into betrayal of the
true interests Of the people.
of the people.
The American people will serve
America by understanding the trade
union movement and by helping to
make it strong and courageous. Cre-
ated in democracy, built after the
pattern of democracy, it is the SER
want and the protector of democracy
Let America not forget that most
important fact.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

In the building trades where the
workmen are well organized wage
scales are based on the length of the
working season. For instance in Du-
luth bricklayer working seven and
one-half months year has fixed his
wage scale at one dollar an hour.
Plumbers, painters and other skilled
tradesmen are paid wages based on
the cost Of living for a year, although
precious few of them work more than
eight months in a year. Now when
the miners try to arrange a wage
scale and hours of labor to cover a
years living, they are enemies of
the country, according to our two
daily newspapers.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

The daily papers are wondering
how the farmers and laborers are
going to work together in politics.
Well, the Republican party managed
to keep in power for years by having
the farmers and wage-earners vote
the same ticket. 1t claimed to be
the friend of both, and if that were
true there is no reason why they
cannot be friends of each other now.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

Venerable Samue1 Gompers, he
who, more than any other man. put
American workingmen squarely be-
hind the government and kept them
there during the war, is now re-
garded as a dangerous Bolshevist.
That "big group of employers" and
it's willing press are surely an incon-
sistent lot. They would sacrifice
everything held sacred in America to
perpetuate their Prussian-like rule
over the workers.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

"Noah took no chance of going up
against a labor tieup when he built
the ark. He did the job himself"
says the News-Tribure. That's f1b.
The ark was built by "closed
union" of the Noah family. There
was nothing individualistic about the
story of the flood in any sense. Even
the animals had their little unions.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

The News Tribune enormously de-
clares that coal mining is a seasonal
occupation, like open pit mining on
:he Mesaba range. It is nothing Of
the sort. An underground mine can
be operated every day in the year.
That is not why miners are not regu-
larry Employed; it is because the op-
orators are doing what some unions
have been accused of doing; they are
curtailing production. Coal produc-
tion fell off 25 per cent in the first
nine months of this year as compared
with the same period in 1918, and
this with nearly 10000 miners back
from France who did no work as
miners in 1918.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

Union labor was not as enthusiast
tic in the celebration of "Armistice
Day. this year as it. was one year
ago when we thought the last mile
stone in the goal for human liberty
had been reached. Since that event.
fu1 day "kaiserism" has cropped out
in new sorm. and it so happens that
America seems to be it's most secGre
abiding place.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

yCdIo ~ uloCOVcf lHdL puDl1C assem-
blies, if they were to act wisely. must
adopt and follow in their proceedings
some order Of business. When they
discovered this, parliamentary rules
were brought into existence and a
helpless mob was transformed into a
parliamentary body.
In the same way riot, disorder, con-
fusion, campaigns that were utterly
planless, undertaken by organizations
which were only ropes Of sand, have
discredited the workingman in politics
and defeated his purposes. This was
true of the Union Labor party of 40
years ago. 1t was true of the Peoples
party. 1t has been true Of such Labor
parties as have had brief and limited
existence in certain cities and towns
in this country. It was mainly for
this reason that proposals made by
the Socialist party, which have the
approval in principle of overWhelm-
ing majorities of the people, were
never made effective by being adopted
into laws and carried out through sue
cessive and successful administrations.
In the Union Labor party. in the
Populist party, in the more recent
Labor parties and in the Socialist
party any one could be q member,
any one could be a candidate. any one
could serve on committees, and in
most of these instances any one could
become voter in the primary meet
ings and have a voice in determining
the selection of candidates, the writ
ing Of platforms and the determining
of policies, by simply showing up at
some popular gathering
The Unions in Politics
The British Labor party is made up
primarily Of trade unions. It has ex-
tended it's membership to include 9TH
er organizations which will adopt it's
program and contribute to it's funds.
In Great Britain in national elections
no one is ever called upon to vote for
more than single person, that is, for
the member of parliament from his
district. The administration ir organ
lied and the national government de-
termined by the parliament, subject
to certain limitations, which remain
as rudimentary survivals Of a disap-
pearing monarchy. The only local
committees existing are made up of
delegates from the different unions
and from other political or civic or
carnations which may choose to Join
with the unions after the manner
1t is evident from the foregoing
that no mass meeting, no rushing of
members in for some special effort to
capture the machine by one private
interest against some other is possible
under such an arrangement, while the
issues made by such an organization
must be, in the nature .of case. so
directly and so clearly related to the
immediate economic intrests of the
people composing these bodies that
betrayal becomes practically i'm
possible.
The British Example.
The same may be said of the Labor
parties of continental Europe. No
Wall street interests could secure a
hearing. No Wall street machine
could capture the primary organiza-
ton and no vicious campaign of mis-
representation can successfully misin-
form and mislead, while the funds
created to fight the battles of the
unions anywhere are made available
to fight their battles at the ballot box
Substantially the same forms of or
ganiza tion prevail in New Zealand and
Australia
The labor world., 1919-11-15

The Herald, in its zeal to attack
the coal miners, hadn't a word to say
about the autocratic and arbitrary
attitude assumed by the coal opera
tors during the several weeks preced-
ing the strike, when they steadfastly
refused to present a counter propo-
sltion to the miners, while their pub
licity bureaus were framing against
the unions. There will be some in
teresting history divulged in this
strike in the not distant future, and
the people will be appalled, at the
boldness with which the operators
and their allies worked the press on
the psychology of the crowd
theory.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

Now that the daily papers have
turned their heavy artillery on or
ganized labor since it has mustered
up courage enough to go after the
big fellows in American business, we
are not hearing word about profit
eering or the high cost OF living. It
is the old stop thief" cry over again.
The labor world., 1919-11-15

In a mining town the question
among coal miners is not: care you
going to work tomorrow" but rath-
er: "Are there any cars in?" Min
ing under such system is but a
mere handy job.
The labor world., 1919-11-15
RETAIL CLERKS UNITE.

FREEPORT, ILL.,. Nov. 13.-Nearly
100 retail clerks in this city have or
ganized and Joined the trade union
movement
The labor world., 1919-11-15

THE school teachers will not or
ganize into trade unions" says an
editorial in local paper. But they
are organizing. and the American
Federation of Labor has been busy
for the past year issuing charters to
"School Teachers Unions" How
does that sound?
The labor world., 1919-11-15

Labor agitator,' is worn-out
phrase that has come back into use
since the daily papers have begun
their attack on organized labor. but
what is the proper term for the
plundering profteers who have the
country by the throat?
The labor world., 1919-11-15
Why Workngmen Throughout The
World arc Going Into Politics

sy WALTER THOMAS MILLS, Nj. A
(AuthOr of
>"Democracy and Despotism.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-17

shortly thereafter when there was a
change in the administration of the
affairs of the Southern Pacific and |
was Informed that no more money
was to be advanced for the building
of this road. This was staggering
blow to me. Friends, it was tanta-
mount to a knockout, but, gentlemen,
let me tell you, before the count of 10
arrived l realized what it meant and
l then said to the president of the
road:
"'Why do you wish to discontinue
For financial reasons; money is tight
and we have great expense to make
up for the roads along through Ne
vada.'
He Said, "Let Me Do IT.
"'Well,' l said, then let me do it,
And from that moment on | did it, and
continued the building with such funds
as l could spare from my business
and such funds as my brother aided
me with.
81 continued the building of the road
until we reached Campo. When that
point was reached, there was new
change in the administration of the
Southern Pacific and by the GOOD eff
fort of Mr.. Kruttschnitt, Mr.. Sproule
and my good friend Mr.. ellis, we then
at that point formed partnership to
go ahead with it, and we agreed we
would build road jointly on a $3.50
basis. l realized that if the road was
to be completed, that was the best
thing that could happen, as it would
form a trans-c continental line, some
thing that otherwise might not ever
have happened to the city of San
Diego.
81 have been accused by some Of the
speakers of being versatile man,
but tell you l am not the talker that
some of those connected with me in
the railroad are, especially the gen
eral manager, but | am better at ac-
tion. (This was said in a kindly spirit
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-17

will by the crowd of nearly 1000
persons.
Governor Cantu said that Mr..
Spreckels, in building the railroad,
has done almost as much for Lower
California as for San Diego and the
Imperial valley. He said that he, as
governor of Lower California, desires
to cooperate in every way.
eve cannot dream at this time of
the possibilities of this road" said
the governor 81 wish to congratu-
late the people of San Diego, of the
Valley and my own Lower California.
1t creates more intercourse between
our people and means that prejudice
and hatred will be done away with.
1t will give us a better knowledge of
each other. Prejudice is borne of
| falsehood and Misrepresentation. This
railroad is a miracle, and ! propose
three cheers for it's builder"
In introducing Governor Cantu, Mel
Vile Klauber said that the governor
lis a man of broad vision, who has
been helpful in every way. Whatever
differences America has had with
Mexico, Klauber said, do not extend
to Lower California. San DIEGO and
Lower California, he said, are friend
ly. This, he declared, is greatly due
to the fair and generous treatment by
Governor Cantu of all matters that
concern the new railroad and the peo-
pie of the two communities in gen.
era1
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-17
STAGE TRIPS
FROM COAST
|NAUGURATED

Something new is being offered to
San Diegans and the rest Of the
world as well-something new in op-
portunities to visit Imperial valley
the mile Of the Western Hemisphere.
This latest opportunity is found in the
announcement by Pickwick, White
Star and. United Stages of three-day
persinally conducted excursions to the
desert basis that lies over the noun
tains and across the desert.
Nowhere else is there to be found
such a changing variety Of scenes as
in the 12O-mile drive by auto from
the Harbor Of the Sun to the Imperial
valley goal; and nowhere else is there
to be experinced SO wonderful tnd so
exhilarating a pride in mans victory
over natures apparently insurmount-
able obstacles as the sight of land now
blooming like the rose that was once
a death warning to the traveller whe
essayed its passage.
The eXcursionists from San Diego to
Ell Centro in the heart of the Imperial
valley Is fortunate in his selection of
a varied trip for this much is to be
noted, the beginning and end of the
trip is cast in scenery unlike, and still
both are highly pleasing; while the
second and third stages of the drive, al
though ordinarily forbidding to travel
ers Of, an earlier day, still abound in
such multitude Of strange contrasts
that these later changes in world seen
cry evoke nothing but expressions OF
awe and wonder
San Diego, its beautiful harbOr and
the rising back country mesas con
stitute the opening scene to be follow
ed in the second stage with a con-
stantly changing view of rugged noun
tains covered with live oak sage brush
and sycamore. Then from Mountain
Springs, just below High Pass, which
marks an altitude of 42OO feet, there
is obtained the first view of Salton sea
and the far-flung yellow glare of the
desert, volcanic mountains forming q
dull misty back ground. At that point
the unsuspecting traveller would never
accept the statement that within the
limits Of that view there could exist
fertile and blooming valley.
The mountain highway winds
downward through seven scenic miles
of "closeups'' of the chocolate range
with never recurrent glimpse of the
forbdding desert. Without warning,
the mountain drive ends and the final
curve thrusts the visitor boldly onto
the desert floor, a straight-away pave
ment confidently beckoning to further
discovery. Miles Of terrible forbid
ding Out quickly traversed stretches of
level sand and lounging dune end sud
denly at Dixieland-and the outskirts
of the valley of cotton, alfalfa, date tree
fruit and vegetable is reached.
The first day of the three-day excur-
sion is completed in FL Centro where
the chamber of commerce of that city
furnish entertainment for the visitors
in the evening. The second day is
Imperial Valley press., 1919-11-17
II IeNIUyD.
Jests With Manager

Of levity).
Jests With Manager
Il never did get very far by talking.
There was a time when | used to be
nicknamed Serious john | have
been serious in all of my undertake
ings. But at times ] jest with our
general manager and pick him up on
various things in reference to the
road. &sgS e#f gsaM
Now as to the road, i havefto go
still further, and if I don't start, pretty
soon the sun will go down and win be
unable to hit the spike. This road
means, as other speakers have told
you, much to San Diego and also to
Imperial valley. The one cannot get
along without the other. The railroad
needs them both.
~ think, as Mr.. Kettner has put it
to you, that l will have to have your
support SO as to make this road a sue
cess"
Chorus Told Him So
And then, in mighty chorus, with
hats 4nd handkerchiefs waving, the
crowd sang:
whats the matter with John D.?
He's all right.
w lietC Ilc HidCCGI Will JOIll ~.
Out of sight.
He's live one and full of vim.
Now take it from us, we're strong
for him.
What's the matter with John D.?
He's all right"
And President Spreckels was all
right. Leaping lightly from the flat
car, he pulled off his coat, grasped
the sledge, and with few well-di-
rected blows sent the spike of gold
into place. Then the crowd went wild
They were all still wild with joy when
they returned to San Diego at 8
o'clock last night.
And they were singing:
"There's two long, long rails a-wind-
ing
Down to this land Of our dreams,
Where rail and tide are meeting,
And the bright sun CLEANS.
We've had long, long years of wait
ing
For this dream to come true,
Till the dav when trains come rolling
down