Arizona republican., 1920-03-18
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E. F. Trefz Attacks Closed Shop, Class Legislation, and Modern American Method of Choosing Law makers. Urges Increase For School Teachers

Speaking under the auspices of the mass meeting of citizens at the audi torium of the Monroe school last night, E. R. Trefz, of the Commercial Fede- ration of California, attacked the sources of class legislation. the mod ern American method of selecting lawmakers, and declared, in refer ence to Phoenixs stand for industrial freedom in the building trades. that the application of the closed shop was in direct violation of the constitution of the United States.
 Americans should stand opposed to class domination in any of its forms, and whole-heartedly for what the con- stitution of the United States pro- vides-a square deal and equal oppor- Phoenix have done the American thing,'-and he was roundly applauded when he added, but keep the wage scale in Phoenix as high as it is in any other city in the United States"
 Mir. Trefz is considered an expert on present day industrial problems, and in addition is a speaker of great force fitness. He was applauded when he pointed to the shortcomings of capital, and again when he denounced what he described as labor's challenge to the people of the country in recent eff forts Ito secure legislation not for the benefit of all the people"
 Strike, Yes-Coercion, No.
 T was member of a typographical union for nine years" he said. but my first job was that of breaker boy in a coal mine, and there is no man here who can tell me anything about work ing with my hands. I recognize, too Ia rryifl captions, got a thing it did not have to fight for, and I believe in the right to strike, but I do not believe that men have the right to say that other men who do not belong to the or ganized class shall not work side by side with men who do belong to that class"
 In his preliminary remarks Mir. Trefz drew a word picture of America intent upon winning the war of an entire nation which had dropped ev- erything and was pledged to but one purpose, that of defeating Germany's effort to dominate the world
 But America lost her morale on November II and it appears that she has not yet regained it. From No- vember II, when the armistice was signed, America dropped the spiritual role she had been playing in the worlds affairs and became sordidly material again, men of all classes bent upon She obtaining of money, the building up of personal fortune. This has bred discontent, and never in the history of the nation was there as much dis content. as at the present moment. It IS not the high cost of living. but the cost of high living, and the high cost of loafing, that is gnawing at this coun- try's structure with telling effect. We stopped putting our efforts to the crushing of Germany and turned them toward ourselves.
 The Basis of Todays Problems
 First of all. every bit of industrial unrest you have in this country dates back to the fact that civilization is working for wider diffusion of the good things of life. The declaration of independence was for the rights of man, the pursuit of happiness, the right to labor and the right 10 Uorship God. The attempt on the part of 51 per cent of labor today to get more wages and shorter hours is a blind at tempt to get 8 wider diffusion of the
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