New Britain herald., 1919-11-20
LABOR QUESTION
 IS SERIOUS ONE
So Declares Ole Hanson, Terror
 Of Reds on Pacific

New Haven, Nov. 20.---Ole Hanson. inc Pacific coast terror, who spoke be- 1 fore the State Chamber of Commerce last evening, declared that the high cost of living is the paramount issue in America today. The industrial problem is tho greatest question of tho day, he asserted, declaring:
 1T find that is not the paramount, near-at-hand, grass-root problem be- fore the people of the United States today The people want to know when high prices are coming down.. They want to know why this hatred and un rest that has become so prevalent throughout our country. Why do people applaud every destructive sen timent, every lawless word and excuse, in Q measure, every lawless act? They ask: Is this the end? Are we to go back to barbarism? Have the doc trines of Bolshevistic anarchy really taken lasting root in our people?
 Greatest Danger
 ."I believe the greatest danger the country is facing today is our indus trial condition and that the time has come when our officials in Washington must and shall devote their time to solving the great problems before the American people today. Our govern ment must function. or why the gov ernmentE Traitors must remain in prison, or every prison cell i'll the land should be emptied. The anarchists of this country who are against God and good and all governm ent must and shall be deported.
 Must Be Americans First. '"There never has been a time in the nations history when we faced such hi TO presented to us today. This is not a l time for partisanship. It makes no difference what political faith we have, we must all of us be Americans first, and I say to you that a man who will 1 not leave his party for the good of his 1 country should be forced to leave the l country for the good of all parties, ] o,OOO Strikes.
 "In January of this year we had l 1O5 strikes going on in the country. By July this number had increased ] to 364, or twice as great as in July, ! 1e1S Officials of the American Federation of Labor estimate that 1 there are now 2,000 strike situations,
 meaning strikes going on or immi- l nent Think of it, 2,000 strikes in 9 l country where labor is at a premium, l where no one longer seeks the job, ! but where the job seeks the man! ] The people of the country arc 1 simply fed up on strikes and realized 1 that if they submitted to the burglar l ous demands of the coal miners it l simply meant bringing them one step 1 nearer to the goal of the Red mis- l leaders of labor to turn our country ! into a Soviet rule for the benefit of a l particular class of the people. The l time has come when we must make our stand; when we must not allow 1 any minority to control the destinies
 of our people. This is a governme ert of, by and for all the people, and no
 minority, whether a labor union or a
 group of bankers, must ever be al-
 lowed to control it's affairs. The time
 has come for a showdown in this
 country and the quicker it comes the
 better. Continued flirting with, an-
 archy is but to put off the day when
 it must be met and defeated.
 Immense Resources.
 we have nearly 2,000, 100000 acres of land, of which only one acre in seven is under cultivation and oi
 which there are still 225, 100000 acres
 in the hands of the government. We
 have a larger proportion of fertile
 land in the United States than any
 other country on the face of the earth
 has. We have 265,000 miles of rail- , roads-5,O00 miles more of railroads . than we have of hard-surfaced ol
 graveled roads--in the United States
 In other words, private capital fo, [ profit has built roadbeds and put O.;
 cars and laid steel rails in this United
 States a distance sufficient to sc
 around the world 10 times and then
 circle our entire border.
 We have 4,231 billion tons of un- ] mined coal in the United States and
 Alaska-'greater by 579 billion tons than that of all the remaining nation: } of the world"
 The speaker discussed further the great resources of the United States and then continued, in part, as
 follows;
 "We need fear no foreign foe and
 we need fear no foreign competition , In the next five years we will not
 only hold and develop our interna
 trade, the greatest in the world, but
 we will, if we Cooperate and use ou,
 brains, capture the foreign trade o1
 the world.
 Only One Liability.
 I've have but one possible liability , confronting us, and that is industrial
 and civil strife. But now everywhere
 in this country, thousands refuse to 9bide by orderly and legal procedure lime honored and century tried, and
 advocate a reign of lawlessness and overthrow of that government which
 to this date has functioned more sue cessfully for all the people than any
 other yet devised or tried. We all realize that thousands are against the 1 government, but few of us have