The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-06-05

way" he said. "On. the one hand we
have the great constructive. movement
for progress. for civilization, and with
all the tasks these impose, and ON the
other hand We have those who are
leading the course efsreaetion, OF. in
Justice, OF tyranny: The time is at
hand when there must be determined
whether the eternal principles Of
freedom. of Justice and democracy
shall hold sway or be supp1anted by
the tyranny and the Injustice as Of
old.
Struggle Is Age-Old.
I'm every country on the face of
the glofe, anG in all eras, there have
been the incidents and the events of
struggle struggle for expression,
struggle fer a better life, q happier
day. All the efforts of old to sup
press by law, by edict, the attempts
OF the people to move in the labor
and the struggle for their uplift have
been In vain. The law attempted to
be enacted, whether in the United
States congress or by any state within
the Union, will find it's exact fate as
the laws and edicts and DEGREES Of
sovereigns and parliaments and
judges in the past
"The hope for freedom is in every
mans breast. The. hope for a better
time for him and his is in the mind
of every honest thinking man. He
who would not struggle to leave the
industrial field better than when he
entered the struggle fir life and of
life, the man who would not try to
bring about a better day for him and
his dependents and those who are to
follow, is a pOltroon to himself and
to society. We are living in the Unit
ed States of America, in a republic,
a republic which has commanded and
earned and deserved the respect, the
loyalty. the love and the, devotion and
the willingness to sacrifice on the
part of every man and woman now
living in our country.
Difference Between Men.
THE difference between a slave
and free man is that the slave must
work when his master or owner di.
rects and wills. The free man may
stop his work, and whatever conse-
quences Of suffering that may be in
volved it is his suffering and the suf-
fering of no one else. The right. of a
free man to dispose of himself, OF his
labor and his labor power has been set
forth in a supreme court decision and
opinion read by the then Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr..
Hughes, in which the principle is set
forth clearly that no man is free, that
involuntary servitude exists when a
man must work agains his will.
III anyone should attempt to :por-
tray to you violence in connections
with a strike, If that violence is in the
form OF an attack upon life, body or
property, will agree in advance to
say that that. must be punished and
wiped out Of the affairs Of our re-
public. But the right Of sovereign
free men in the republic Of the United
States can only be maintained when
men shall have the right, as Lincoln
said, Thank God, We live in coun-
try where, at: the last point, the work
man may stop work. -. .. j.
Lincoln Defended Labor.
Il prefer to align myself with the
patriotism and the far-seeing justice.
and the vision, of the martyred Lin
coin than with any reactionary who
wants to enforce compulsory labor.
There is but one ground upon
which any justification may be. as
sumed to tie men to their jobs and
make strikes unlawful; that; is the
confession that our.*republican h.
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