The Butte daily bulletin., 1919-06-14
Scott hearings Special Article
ONLY LABOR CAN BENEFIT LABOR.

those who perform a socially useful
service.
The Russians make the negative
proposition equally emphatic, in de-
failing who may not vote
"(a) Persons who employ hired
labor in order to obtain from it an
Increase in profits.
CD Persons who have an in
come without doing any work, such
as interest from capital, receipts from
property, etc.
"(c) Private merchants, trade
and commission brokers'"
The Russian worker is eligible to
vote and to hold office because he
is Il worker.
The Russian profiteer is denied
the right to vote and to hold office
because he is a profiteer.
The people of Russia have discov
cred and expounded a new crime,
the crime which one member of So
ciety commits when he says to a fell
low member-"You work and toll
and earn bread and l will eat it,
The workers of Russia have writ
ten into their constitution many
other provisions, such as those by
which all private property in land
lis abolished; all forests, treasures of
the earth, and waters Of general
public utility, all factories, mills,
mines, Iailways, and all the banks
and other financial institutions are
transferred to the ownership of the
community without compensation to
their former owners.
That is the only way in which Ia
Dor can benefit labor. Sham reforms
and patchwork measures are de-
lusion and snare. The workers must
own the works before they can hope
to be free.
They Will Go!
May first the international labor
holiday so generally observed by the
workers of Europe saw fresh indig-
mites heaped upon the foreign born
men and women in the United States.
The police, representing law and
order We'd with mobs of uniformed
soldiers and sailors in their efforts to
make this country an impossible liv-
ing place for any self-respecting for
eigner. A concert given by a Hun
garian Singing society was ralded by
400 soldiers, who insisted upon THE
Star Spangled Banner" and forbade
the playing of all Hungarian or Ger
J man music. Meeting places of for
.eign-born workers were attacked;
, meetings were broken up, and men
and women were insulted and as
saulted.
The so,dier-mob raids were care
| fully planned and executed; the po-
5 lice were directed from headquart-
5 ers. The masters of American life
evidently desire this thing. If they
J did not. they would easily stop it,
Be satisfied, masters; these for
: egners' will go. Already they are
: leaving by the hundreds of thou
sands and recent Investigations show
: that, as soon as passports can be Sc
: cured, between 100000 and TO-
: 900 900 of foreign born men and wo-
men expect to go back to Europe.
e The last census reported 13, ,345, 8
e foreign born individuals in the Uni
e ted States. This body of working
0 people, who have been doing the
: hard work of the United States for
|. decades, will go back to Europe.
h Well, what then?
+ Then the workers who remain will
: be able temporarily to demand and
secure labor-famine wages. Then
e the masters will have their excuse
t for bringing black labor from the
:, south to the north (as they did dur
! ing the war; and for bringing yellow
7 coolie labor as they did a generation
ted States as they did generation
d ago.
The driving out of millions Of for
l. eigners means ultimately the i'm.
J position of more acute forms of slav-
cry upon the American working peo,
e pie. Thus tyranny will grow; des'
= potism will enthrone itself, and cap
II italism will die by it's own hands.