The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-08
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We want 10 submit as an essentially fair statement of con-
diions and cures the six resolutions which were adopted by
Hhe representatives of the farmers of Illinois,, and which have
in substance been adopted by the farmers bureaus OF Indiana
Eere they are:
81. We condemn the strike methods of righing
wrongs or duress methods of securing legislation.
*. We condemn the demands for shorter hours
which reduce production and increase the cost of
living, and recommend a basic ten hour day for all
productive industries in order that farm labor may be
on a par with other forms of labor.
"3. We condemn the effort to unioniZe the police
forces of cities and regard a strike of the police
which leaves a city in the hands of plumber and lust
to be high crime against civil government.
~. We condemn bolshevism, sovietism, l. W. w.
movements, and denounce as traitors to this country
any persons who in any way advocate anything point
ing toward revolution.
IS. We declare it to be the sense of this con-
ference that we favor a league of all industrial or
CARNATIONS for the purpose of determining contro-
verses that may arise among them and for the pur-
pose of enforcing industrial peace.
"6. Finally, we call upon all law-abiding citi-
zens to join in meeting the changing conditions of the
times and in bringing our country to an economic
standard of living"
In these resolutions the farmers of the country have
expressed the common sense of the majority of the people
and they embody the good old doctrines upon which America
was founded and grew great and prosperous before socialism
in its varied forms came to us from the writings of Karl Marx
and The rest of the "intelectuals" of Europe who formed their
conclusions under the shadows of monarchial autocracy, and
that in the forms of protest.
On a few points. the farmers may have misunderstood
The conditions that surround wage workers in the city, for
instance, the length of the day. While it would be very
desirable for the present to have a ten-hour day, due to the
shortage of labor and materials and supplies, calling for in
creased production, at the same time the %eight-hour day has
become too basic in cities for change, and travel to and from
work will on the average consume two hours. 1t is not wholly
unjust as compared with the ten-hour day on the farm, which
is labor in the open air in which there is an exhileration that
cannot be found in shops and factories.
But in other respects the statements of the farmers are
inst and helpful and they are so sane that they may well form
a basis of settlement for industrial conditions. In their pre-
ambles the farmers condemned both the employers and the
employees i'm the cities, the former for continuing war profits,
prOfiteering not consistent with patriotism, and the latter for
permitting themselves to be dragged into radicalism by some
tf their leaders. most of whom are of alien extraction,
mentally. il not wholly alien i'll thought.
We should thank the farmers of Illinois and Indiana for
pointing the way to a return to sound and traditional Ameri-
can conditions. Their resolutions ought to be framed and
posted in every good Americans hat for frequent reference.