Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-20
NOVEMBER 20, 1915
KICK OUT JAZZ BUGS.

The Washington Post. in comparing
the conditions in this country and in
England, where there is more cause
for chaos in labor circ,e than ii
America, says;
What would be thought if Mr..
Gompers should send message Il
lahor in England, telling it to stano
firm for Bolshevsm and giving it the
encouraging news that American or
ganized labor had paralyzed the hanC
of the government in its fight againsi
Lenine and Trotzky? Yet that is the
purport of the messages sent by Eng
lish labor leaders of the highes
standing to their friends in the Uniteu
States, and spread broadcast through
the red sheet called the Liberator,"
The editorial states that some o.
the holder labor advocates in Ameri-
ca are affiliated with the international
agitators who have no regard for ma
tons, free or bound. and who thinl
they see in the red revolution o.
Russia the overthrow of society The
question now to be answered is
whether the American or Bolshevist
spirit is to sway organized labor ano
define its policies and actions.
Radicals have attempted to SWEEP
aside the conservatism preferred by
Samuel Gompers and others. and t.
a great extent have temporarily sue
ceeded.
But the Post points out that Amer
lean union labor is very far from the
depths into which British labor lead
ers have sunk their organizations. The
conditions in Britain and America are
quite different, and allowance must
be made for the terrible industrial re
suit that has been suffered by Eng
lishmen. 1t is not surprising that
mitted others to inject into British
unionism the devilish decoction of
Bolshevism. Yet the British charac-
ter is not easily worn down by ad-
versity, and the common sense of the
many is sure TO have its way in the
end.
The way to steady union labor and
its friends, secure more poise, until
the jazz radicals pass on, turned down,
kicked out is not by INDUCING in
wholesale denunciation of labor
unions as radicals. trouble-seeking
Bolshevistic organizations. They are
not. Organized labor is suffering
from the same hardship that has over.
come all the people. because of the
impairment of lalue in money. Prices
are in double figures because money
is only one--half as good as il was
Wages are paid in figures that for
merry meant a certain value; now
they mean about half that value. But
labor is gradually seeing that its men
are no harder hit than most other
people.
Already there is notable slowing |
down of certain forces which. but a
few weeks ago, felt that no obstacles |
would resist demands, just or unjust,
The anti-American leaders are not so
blatant as they were. President Will
sons warning did much to cool their
revolutionary ardor,
The voice of the people in Massa-
chusetts and elsewhere also has served
as az warning.
Massachusetts is a state where the
wage earning element is larger in pro
portion to population than almost any
ether. Yet Massachusetts has just
voted against radicalism and its apol-
ogists by $4,000 votes. The majority
Of the mill and factory towns of the
state were carried by the law and
order candidates by very large ma
jorities.
Ii is time for the people TO "get
the number" of every dangerous ex-
tremist. The Washington paper has
them properly classified when it says:
These ag!tators and adventures.
while extreme in stimulating passion
and eloquent in painting themselves
as defenders of down-trodden work
ers, are always wary in saving their
own skins. There is nothing unselfish
or self-sacrificial in thei philosophy.
Inc moment they find that union
labor does not follow them toward
they will abandon their pres
ent efforts and seek new ways of
making an easy living by working the
workers"