The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-16
THE 4S'ERS.

The labor convention at Chicago
had a good time with its dreams. 1t
cheered the president Of the Chicago
Federation of Labor to the skies
when he said that "the day would
come when the working people of the
United States would get together and
do such a job as the workers of
Russia have DONE" He was further
applauded when he said that there was
nothing to prevent the "hand and
brain workers from taking the gov
eminent out of the hands of, not
Americans, but international finan-
cial pirates"
Who are the working people? Ev-
erybody in America works. He
speaks of the hand and brain work.
ers, and everybody works with one
or the other or with both. Presum-
ably he did not mean everybody, but
some select portion. We wish he had
been specific in his distinctions. We
work with our hands, but we are not
sure he had US in mind. We should
like to help take the government away
from somebody, but we should prefer
an invitation to the task rather than
to volunteer, for it might prove that
we were not welcome, and that the
idea of the speaker was to keep us out
of the government while taking il
away from others.
His talk about the Russian Soviet
also leaves us in the dark. We dom
know who is running the Russian
government, whether it is the work
ers or a military oligarchy of a mos
depostic and bloody character, since
the reports are intensely conflicting
and we don't know how satisfactor.
the administration is to the worker
or the other people of Russia. That
why we started out by saying tn
labor convention at Chicago had
good time with it's dreams.
Dreaming! The labor or other con
v%ention that is inexact in it's terms
hazy in it's understanding, and ignor
ant in it's grasp of coditios, is merel
dreaming. This n seems to be wors
than usual. 1t applauded this leade
who spoke of taking the government
from international financial pirates.
He did not say a word about ho'
this was to be accomplished, nor di
he bring the case at all down to bras
tacks. Neither did he define the p
rates or their methods. Too bad.
If international financial pirate
have control of this government W
would like to help take it away fro
them; so would almost everybod
else. Maybe he meant the peerles
idealist and his gang, but we shoul
not call them pirates, and the repul
licans will take care of them in N,
vember.
There is not much done by dream
ing. The second national labor part
convention will be a f~utility unless
wakes up. Mere twaddle about IL
brain and hand workers, which il
cludes everybody in America, doir
something to a vacuum, will accom-
plish nothing. Of course, "intern;
tional financial pirates" is a fiji
phrase, but phrases butter no par
nips. The convention may have
good time, but that's about all
will do.
Besides fatuities, it also seems
the way of stumbling over incongrr
tiles. The plan to join it with Il
party of the committee of As involv,
many other tasks in addition to FIRE
ing the government of pirates. tt
labor convention platform propos,
high income taxes. But the sing
takers of the 4S political menager
adopted a plank specifically askir
for the exemption from taxes of a
incomes, industries, buildings and oil
err forms of property" combining ia,
es to land rentals.
! We are afraid there is not enoue