Arizona republican., 1921-06-24
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE s4. 1921.
thdnh hedve,a have often had it m mg poacer to give relief and tlais z Stau nsy greatest pleasure.
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eevernmsnt and .Dsmeer.sic- c.,t-.,

~evernmsnt and 1psmecratic- coctrol
 our industries. those operating under government enarters are to be governmentaly that is. democrst feA'y controlled, if the ideas Of the American F.s oa Laoor are carried out But we do not
 'ank the plan viii be execution very .tsn,
 t has not been long enough sincs the roverr,,
 Of the IF jlr ads for t, forget There wa
 o super democratic control of the roads tbot iz
 Sontro' not by the whole peoo.e O. very Iar.. pert of the people but by the workers.
 Inoush the government at washineton xa. am
 owsrsd by legislation control the workers theu-
 sves controlled all they cared to in the essertia,
 @sfers of wages and working conditons as V. have ments -ss@s-
 The workers though. permitted the .ov.-r,,... P control in purely fiscal matters in the mar,,~ ~ Tn the running of trains and in che taxaton f 1s people already bending under the burden of t.r
 t'on 70 cover the huge sing d.ficft
 s result of this governmental democratic control nsre 's ieft as heritage to people the hf~be.t E oppaesslse freight and passenger rates in the 'stoly Of rAilroadins in this any other country
 uemocras'c control n have stated, h Ane@nI control by tho workers4 Here is an sse,r,n ton that nobody a interested in the (. ths reads except ths workers and the owner. ror. my Inc theory was that nobody ha1 any concern tA ta9 management except the owners who cop,s "+ntse mem as they plessed. regardiess Of the ton aso | ssAs' q
 ie is nov to De restored and slightly amended by fne inclusion Of the workers with tho owners. :. "A
 sstsa Dy the American Federation of Labor rhe 9onc is again to be left disreearded !. to,,. es t was before the first interstate conn.rc. passed and as t was during the two years control Pf tne railroads by the Wilson edmtntstration.
 II true that tho federation plan provide. for ]. n'zn'nei government control but such control i. a91 one which would benefit the public It would sFSe only to enforce arbitration Of difference. be een tne owners of the roads and the!r employe.. Fes@rdns the management of the ro.sis we.l
 *einent' of course. would decide such disputes in eVor o1 the side which could produce the moat vote. s But sucd weak governme ont would not r.,rs,r 'n power very long, for though the Wilson govern
 enf made the highest bid offered for the labor vote its shattering collapse was due to th.t varv o1er The people, though they had been utterly ats regarded in the management Of the roads vvould r. be disresarded at the polls
 How nnsound are the views of the advocate. re- 1e'ne government and democratic control Of in- aostfy snown in the remarks of Delegate Grow
 not the foremost advocate any rate the wordie.t
 He charged" says dispatch special priv,l.~. ;tt Responsibility for closing the mines Of Arixon. .a Montana" We think that the owners of the roin.. will accept willingly full responsibility for closnr ene mines Having the special privilege Of paying all the bills and pocketing huge losses representing the dfference between the of producing cooper ana tne market price of it when there was . market Aes naturay fet like exercising the special privi- iege of quitting producing copper at a loss
 When the mnest shut down 1t was hard h,or to the mining camps and towns of Arizona to ta. whole state. Yet we have never heard anv rea.oo < anie man blame the mine owners for closing tbe mines
 Now if those mines had been government and democratic controlled" suppose they would .ome IT" nave been kept open. Being democratically controlled Of course. there could have been no reduc t'on m the cost of producing The government with ai it's power could not have regulated the law ., supply and demand with to copper It could not have increased the price of it.
 But the mines must have been kept open for what? To keep men employed at good wages That would take money more money than could be raised from the results of their labor The sale of all the copper they produced could have kept the mines open Then how? By making up a deficit. And how? or ceurss in the only way. the way in which the deficit of the U. s. railroad administration was GOV ered-by taxing the people.
 MT. Grow tells that this plan is not socialism not communism, not anarchy. and not bolsheyism He is right It is none of these things. It is a con nscation of property to the of small class of citizens just as before we had the act and the interstate commerce act there confisca ton of property to the benefit of a smaller class was then practiced against the people with the silent assent of the law. now proposed to make greater confiscation lawful.
 There is nothing in this proposal or in any pro- posal offered in the convention for the public for the people, for human rights of which we hear so much except the people who belong to the federation and the human rights of that membership These things cannot asked for in the name of the vho. people.