The Coconino sun., 1919-06-20
CROAFF MAKES WARM
 TALK TO LABOR MEN
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 lived by the labor of their hands, and those who lived from the labor of others. and that go per cent must of necessity remain in class No. 1. MT. Croaff said these were false divisions of the race, not created by labor. and that they should be corrected. A little later the speaker was emphatic in his desire that the workingman should awaken to a class consciousness; that they were not alive to their class in- terest. He said labor was on the bot tom rung of the ladder, taking such crumbs as were left over.
 Mr. Croaff stated that the rich man. the man at the top, would praise and glory in the good points of his horse he rode, but never word would he say in recognition of the good points of the men on whose backs he rode the laboring men. And. further, that a people who allowed it deserved no consideration. He told the listeners that this condition would continue un- til they woke up and threw them (those in class No. 2 of, and seized what was their own and obtain not only more but all of what they pro- duced
 American labor, said the speaker, had not risen to its duty in defense of those languishing in jail who had fought the fight the rest did not have the nerve to attempt. His plea, of course. was for Mooney. It also ap- peared to the speaker that if matters continued in their present trend, with no change, Chief Justice Whites Sam uel Gompers and Woodrow Wilson would be called the three pillars sup porting the edifice of wage slavery.
 As an argument for joining the Federal Local, it was pointed out that the working class could fix the price of the commodity it had to sell-labor but that the wage question was not the only one. The workingman should go into the political fight. President Croaff stated that in Winslow he was given to know that a state labor ticket would be in the field. Then. it was said, Eve won't have to beg for what we want. but can take it as matter of right"
 Mir. Sefton, again addressing the as- semblage, grew extremely earnest in pleading the case of labor. He said he had boy growing up who he hoped would always be called as big - agitator by the boss as he himself had always been. The speaker, who said he had not been here long. stated that it appeared to be all but one-man town, and that he had noticed the lumber men were getting from 10 to 15 minutes a day stolen from them when the whistles at the mills blew.
 The same speaker stated that ifsyou have the power to take anything, you have the power to hold it, whether it is legal or not; but said that the labor ing man was always law-abiding, and that if they had the political power they could legalize the taking. He said the incompetents were the bosses and were making the laws. He told some. of his own experiences--how "three big burly bulls" kicked him into on one occasion.
 To illustrate some point in his dis course he told of an old Grading mare" he used to own, that he traded off nine times and every time got boot and every time she came back to him. She baked.
 The speeches aroused slight ap- plause and the appeal for members at the close of the talks was answered by only few. It was understood that further efforts would be made during the week for members.