Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-11-19
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No man. unless his heart beats I'M
frue: or no woman or child with the
emotions that govern human exist
ence, LETT the armory last night asham-
ed because he or she was an Ameri
can. What true Americanism means
to America, and what h balm for
the greatest disease of all ages-in-
Eustrial unrest-is was the keynote
OF the stirring, forceful addres deliv-
cred there as the rain fell in sheets
across Company Ms headquarters,
before-1200 Salemites by E.. F. Fish,
American from whose hands the
.tgrease of tot has not yet ebbed."
No larger audience ever ha come
forth in this city for a similar occa-
sion. And no one ever left h assem-
bly, before any speaker here more en-
couraged to be loyal to old Uncle Sam
Mr.. Fish's speech, which sounded
the death knell to all radecalism,
bolshevism and disloyalty within the
Unions borders, and offered the only
solution to bring about harmony in
the realm of the working class, fol-
lows in part:
Talks Americanism
az do not come here the official
representative of organized abor. l
do not come here the official repre-
sentative of any employer; / am not
under the payment of any organiza-
lion. 1 would rather take the money
, of a clean business man, or any other
right thinking person, to build up
American citizenship; h a to take the
dirty. iowly dollars of Lenine and
Trotsky to tear it down. The money
4 receive / prize highly because it in
dictates h appreciation of the WORK
/ am doing.
''we-a Swede and myself are
preaching the doctrine Of American
citizenship. and striving wherever we
&C to produce 100 per cent American
ism in every man and woman's heart.
/ am a member of the United States
Of America citizen, people of the
greatest country in the world. l have
no superior type of American to ad-
yocate. I am humbled to the dust
when I meet the man back from
France, who, with Americanism in his
heart-nO other aim-gave all he had
that we might live in harmony and
peace here.
when I think tonight of the men,
many thousands Of them, who lie be-
meath the poppy filled fields Of Elan
ders, I feel more and more that ]
represent the commonest type oil
American citizenship.
Cure of Unrest
For the privilege to talk as ar
American citizen l have not had to
ask for the right to speak, because il
lis my God givere blood gotten, con-
stituti0nai right. They say-these agi-
fators do-that there is no more free
gsspeech in America. I am having the
time OF my life exercising my lungs
why? Because, wherever / go, the
say so long as you preach American.
ism we stand by you to the end.
.tMy topic tonight is the cause ant
cure of industrial~unrest. The cause
OF industrial unrest, the cause of dis
loyalty, the cause of disruption, is no
SO intricate, so complicated a prob
lem as to require any great length o.
time.
"We have had a period of grea
wage increases. We have had a periot
wherein working conditions are stead
lily increasing to the better. We hav'
had a period in which organized la
Dor has found itself in position wher
it commands greater prestige eve
known before in the history of it
struggle for power in the United tSate
And we have had the pleasure o
meeting on the platforms of concilia
ton and arbitration-our employer
Highest Wages Known
I'VE must not forget, that though
our wages have increased prices toe
are soaring in the sky. And yet we ar
receiving today-all things consider
ed-the highest wages ever paid ii
the history of American labor.
''The eight hour day has, come a
an accepted fact. In spite of thes
things the country is swelling wit
agitation and unrest. AS our demand
were met, we were assured that con
ditions would quiet, But, to the con
trary, as our demands were met un
&rest increased until the problem ha
come to effect not only organized la
Dor and the employer, but the citize
n statesman.
This raises the point of accurat
diagnosis of the problem. America
1aborers are not fools. They are nc
disIoyal to the United States of Am
erica. (Applause). Everywhere / go
have challenged any one to say thu
the worker is disioyal to the flag.
1--WE are not going to overlook tn
fact that organized labor, and labe
has apparently demanded things thu
industry could not give, without fa'
ing bankruptcy. Neither will we owe
look the fact that some factions of lie
Dor have fostered. radical doctrine
The voice speaking today for Amer
can labor is not the voice of America
labor. The man who casts slurs at ths
flag hanging on yonder wall, in tn
h guise that it is for American IL
Dor, is a hypocrit, an usurper. He
mot the spokesman for American IL
Dor: and it will be only a little viii
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