Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-06

and to have that labor refuse to obey
the mandates of the government, but TO
take its instructions from it's own organ.
ization. In other words it was the
overthrow of civil government and the
setting w of a government by class of
, individuals. The last of these meetings
was held about the year 1914, and they
! insisted that the German Socialists
4 should not enter the German army, but
il they were brought in they would
! throw down their arms and that the
| Socialists upon both sides would do the
same thing, and that the world war,
would come to an end in that way The
German Socialists refused to comply:
they said they would stand by their flag
and their country as long as it was in
| that war and they thought il had a just
cause. Thereupon they set to work to
undermine the armies Of the world; they
| did preach their doctrines until they
broke down the Russian defense and
produced the Russian debacle which
came very nearly involving the whole
Of Europe in ruin. They broke the
Italian line. Beyond any question it
was the chief source that cause the
frightful dsastee on the Italian front;
they had carried their propaganda to an
| extent so that it worked its way into
the armies Of Belgium and o. france
and of England. but those countries
fortunately were able to withstand it's
insidious influence.
Berne Convention
| This was the situation when the war
closed. Then they had meeting at
Berne. Switzerland, and at that Berne
convention they laid down their princi- +!
pies. Briefly. they reiterated the doc
trims that labor Of the world had the
right to control the world; they demanc+
ed an international organization to be
made a part of the League of Nations.
which should constitute a labor world
government. They insisted tina; this
organization should be composed of one
half of the delegates from the countries
of the world, one-half of the delegates
from the organized labor of the world.
and that this party should have the au-
thority to lay down rules for the gov
ernment Of labor in all countries and to
have its DEGREES, when they were enter
ed, registered as international laws. So
| that body now composed in that way
was to write the international law for
this world. Now, nobody paid much at
| tention to that, did they?
| Labor in Control
When 1 tell you that is written in the
League of Nations. substantially,
state what I am prepared to prove in
part Is. They came down there-this
| is the sort Of organization that was
worked out. Instead of giving to organ
| lied labor so per cent. they gave them
| 25 percent. and then they gave repre-
sentation to all the rest of the people,
including those that are already repre-
sented by the 50 per cent. OF SO per cent
Each country, for instance the United
States. will have two men sent over
there to represent the United States,
one man picked by the organized labor
and one man picked by employers who'
ever they may be, when they come to
| work it out, so that you will have four
men 10 represent this country and mark
you now the principle OF bolshevism is
that labor shall have the entire con-
troll The principle is recognized here,
not by giving labor the whole control,
but by giving labor control superior
to that which any other class of men
Ihas The laboring man very soon saw
it. They said, THAT is all right we can
accept that. We start out with 20 per
cent of this organization which we alb
solutely control, which is named by our
labor bodies. We send them over there,
and they will act in unit with the lab
or bodies of other countries, and then
we will have a representation in the
United States and every other country,
aside from that, just the same as the
lawyer, the doctor and everybody else,
SO we can throw our vast voting
strength in there and thus we will have
no trouble in controlling the selection
of the delegates named to represent the
whole of the people"
Government Of Labor
How do you like that sort of scheme
for a world government of labor? Now
let us see what this organization put up
in this way proposes to do. Lest l FOR
get it: When they proposed to Clemen'
ceau. the French delegate, that there
ought TO be so per cent for French
labor. Clemenceau said, This is the
best we can do now" When they pro-
tested that their deTees should be IN
ternational law, Clemenceau said, This
is the best we can do for you now, but
we intend TO give you that in future,
and the correspondence has been pro-
duced and is of record in the congress
sional record Mark you. Clemencau,
now undoubtedly a great man, never
thelcss is socialist SO that the pro
position of the men who framed this
thing and gave it TO us is to ultimately
have the DEGREES of this international
body selected in this way become bind
ling as international law and in the
meantime what are the powers express
lily granted and what comes within the
puryiew of their authority?
Preamble to Article IL
Now, you men who believe in the
League Of Nations, let me read to you
the preamble of Article 13, in which
they state the League of Nations can
not be success unless this Is sue
lcess;
Whereas the League of Nations
has for it's object the establishment
OF universal peace and such peace
can be established only if it Is based
upon social justice, and
Whereas conditions Of labor eX.