The Washington times., 1920-07-08
Hobo King, Going Home
For2Oth WeddingD Date,I
Says Labor Will Win

tof men in a small boat In the middls
OF the Atlantic ocean. One wanLS' 10
go one way. the other wants 40 SO tNs
other And when they can't sgrSe
they begin TO tear out the bottom ~
the boat.
"organized labor 10 conserSAuss.
The Government Is fortunate 10 hArs
q man at the head OF organized laber
like Sam Gompers. Real ApsTycNA
la Dor unions do not look for trouble:
they try TO AVOID Il. But the lhta
strlke-brenking detective ageneiss
are looking for trouble and they Try
10 promote II. all
thing we are facing now. We helped
Europe out. and workingmen there
are back at work and satisfied with =
living wage. Who Is going TO help
ouD the United StStes7 Nobody but The
capitalists, and Instead OF facing The
situation ssnely they are crying In
dustrisl Workers OF the World ana
'Bolshevikr al laboring men who are
better Americans than themselves"
Al this point Jefr had TO stop -
tako a huge sugar cookie away from
Nike. who was being fondied by an
admiring group OF children.
DEFENDS RAILROAD MEN.
Look at these railroad men-sn
American born" he resumed Didn't
President Wilson promise them on
last August J. to reduce the high cost
OF living in ninety daysr What did
he do? Nothing. Didn't he promif4
them a wage increase--and what avg
he give them? Nothing. They Svt
little IL per cent increase during
the war-and what was that cda0
pared to the fancy wages the hunkdHY
and foreign-born workers were 'ser
ting In munition plants and shipyards
and cantonments? Nothing.
81 am not an agit4tor. Uoom
100000 worth oItl1,. Of Liberty s, I686
Wall street have underminedhldA
value. sold 100000 worth WY
savings stamps. 1 raised m4f than
three drives. And / raised $8O1Qo1ft
the New York police department. {Hk&
And what did the police dtbaF09eo
do for me? Why, they took 8Kf6 4HX
to a meeting of striking barhIfa-
FREIGHT YARD EXPERT.
"This vacation Of the railro68work-
ers has tied up between $4,000 900
and $50, 900, 900 worth of frei6A And
l know. because where is thege a HM
who passes through moreo ffeIoAS
yards in the country than mHtSIoH
have spoken to an average 60o'00o
union men a week for the paH9d40
months.
And what do talk about? DWhy I
cheer them up. / have been teIliRS
these railroad men not to mindlVeSQ
they are called reds and 'BolsheXtkS
because when the facts are kh0Wh
they will have the public on their
side. l am telling them to vote for
the men favorable to organized lahIod
Men like Ebert H. Gary and tb4
big spectators in Wall street arS
blocking the traffic. They are spio
ting on the carpet trying to start q
row. They don't want arbitration;
they want to fight, and a fight is Just
the thing that American organised
labor is trying to avoid"
HAS THEORY OF GOVERNMENT.
I'VE need justice in this country
the kind OF justice that can be sub
tected to the referendum and recall
IL it does not turn out to be justice.
We want a representative Govern
ment and normal conditions aud
everything now is pointed in the OPP
posite direction.
"I am now working on plan to
call a national community congreis.
Each town and village in the coin-
try will hold one. A delegate will oe
| selected to go to the county con-
gress. The county congress will sead
one to the national congress, and
there we shall see just what Is wrong
| and how to right 1t.
"There are probably as many good
capitalists as there are crooked Ia
Dor leaders, and the percentage is too
small on one side and too big on tho
other. We want a national house
| cleaning, and we want it quick. And
furthermore-get this again. Old Man
there isn't a single man in this
country who oan speak for the gen.
eral mass of workingmen as I can,
| for I know them and have known
lthem-traveled with them; eaten with
them. talked with them and to them,