The labor standard., 1919-03-01
BREEDERS OF BOLSHEVISM

In the club car of de Luxe train rolling toward Detroit one day last week a number of linen of affairs were discussing world problems in general and "what to do with the Bol- shevik-I. W. w. element" ~
 One voluble and important looking passenger who smoked a fragrant i'm ported cigar and spoke largely of how i've do things in Memphis" made several suggestions only to amend them again before the motions re- ceived seconds.
 "'The only way I can see to handle them is to kill then-but then, if you kill one of them he becomes martyr and two more half baked radicals will become fully cooked and join the I. W. W. No, you can't do it that way, much as I would like to see it."
 "How about deporting them ?" asked another of the group who had been talking of his interests in one of the large automobile manufacturing concerns.
 Deportation seems the best plan but they retreat behind the law and we could only deport the foreign born and they tell me there are lot of Americans among them-most of them are born right here in this coun- try"
 "No, we can't deport all of them, besides I hear England and France and Italy are preparing to deport a lot of American agitators who have gone over there," said the wise one lugubriously.
 "Yes, and I hear there are about five thousand American I. W. w. agi- tators in Russia and they may be de- ported back here some day with all their ideas of Soviets and such things. We'd get the worst of that trade.
 eff any man has any idea of what to do about this I'd like to hear it. I want the real solution," and he looked about with an all inclusive gesture of challenge. 'a
 eff you gentlemen want to know, think I can tell you," said passenger who had listened with deep interest but had said nothing. There was something impressive in the voice of the speaker and all turned to listen.
 s1The train will be in Detroit in a minute or two. I can but give you brief and sketchy suggestion, but if you will take it away with you and give it some thought it may help.
 ssYou want to know what to do with the problem of the ever increasing growth of Bolshevism and I. w. W.ism in America.
 To xxyka a4 fn about what you characterize as pes tiferous intolerable group of destroy CTS?
 sI'll tell you in three words :SStop Them!
 sStop insisting upon intolerable conditions that force the workers to embrace the philosophy of despair.
 ssWyerhauser, the Merchants and Manufacturers Associations, the ex- pleiters of the timber and lumber workers of the Northwest who refuse to permit labor to organize, who be- long to that little group of mid-Vic- torian bourbons who do not know that the enlightened world has recognized the right of the workers to collective bargaining they are the breeders of Bolshevism!
 sYour conversation, gentlemen, has convinced me you belong to the group I have mentioned.
 ssYou would kill some one your words indicate you would merely kill without due process of law. That is anarehism. You would deport them, as at Bisbee? You would piffle with the symptoms and keep on breeding the disease!
 "There is but one force in America today to stop the growth of Bolshev- ism, and that is organized labor. The American Federation of Labor is the only constructive force today that can meet this problem. Stop breeding Bolsheyism; it's a product, a result, not cause. Stop it at it's source"