Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-01-07


ulation of some twenty million-it
may be twenty-five million dependent
for homes, fuel, food, clothing, medi-
cal attendance, to say nothing of the
needs of their spiritual lives-depend-
ent upon the wages of these workers
within the ranks of organized labor.
And it is against these people, a
necessary and vital part of our polit-
ical and social life, that ruthless war
is to be made.
The mills and shops and factories
are closing down, they are to be
starved into WITHDRAWING FROM
THEIR ORGANIZATIONS and will
be re-employed WHEN THEY ARE
HUNGRY ENOUGH to ACCEPT
} WAGES at and "BELOW THE
! LEVEL SET BY GOVERNMENT
EXPERTS AS THE MINIMUM SUB
SISTENCE STANDARD FOR FAM
LIES OF FIVE"
That is what the United States
Steel, and "Open Shop" industry, pays
to MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF
ALL IT'S PRODUCTIVE IRON AND
STEEL WORKERS.
How is this to affect the small
trades people and the farmers who
sell food and supplies to these mil
lions?
And after organized labor has been
broken and crushed what of the Or
ganized farmers? They, too, are
political menace to organized capital
They are manifestly organized to re-
sist exploitation at the hands of Big
Business.
Through combinations declared un-
lawful by the Sherman Act these Big
Business Trusts have suppressed COM
petition, acquired monopoly control
of prices, squeezed the farmers, plum
dered the consumers, and bullied la
Dor for quarter of century.
They have controlled national con-
ventions, nominated and elected Presi-
dents, named Cabinets, influenced the
appointments of federal judges, and
GONE UNWHIPPED OF JUSTICE,
until the people no longer expect pro-
lection from their government or the
courts.
To secure some measure of relief
from the oppression of monopoly the
farmers have been forced to attempt
defensive organization just as labor
has been forced to organize. 1t is a
difficult undertaking to unite the
widely scattered farmers for effective
protection. But already there
are some half dozen farmer organ
izations aggregating many millions in
membership. These men and women
are home-owners. They are honest,
intelligent, Industrious, prudent peo-
pie. They make stable the founda-
tions of government. The great out
standing fact is that these organiza-
tions have been formed in recent
years, some of them very recently, to
FIGHT SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
AGAINST THE MONOPOLY CON-
TROL OF MARKETS that is DE-
VOURING THEIR SUBSTANCE
and REDUCING THEM TO ECO
NOMIC SERFDOM.
These farmers are hard-headed,
straight thinking folk who know they
can get no protection from the gov
ernment or the courts against organ
lied monopoly. They know the
farmer cannot make the fight single
handed and alone.
If the Government and the courts
surrender to the Trusts, then all la
Dor, all farmers, all consumers every
where must organize and these organ
izations must maintain a friendly al
lance in common defense for their
self-preservation.
The individual, be he laborer,
farmer, or consumer, is helpless. He
cannot stand alone against organized
wealth and Big Business in combina-
tion.
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad.
Let the war. by Organized Capital
go on if it must be. 1t will entail
great suffering. But out of it will
come common understanding for the
common good against the common
enemy. Organized labor, organized
farmers, and organized consumers
will survive. Each will maintain it's
own independent organization to serve
it's own needs. But out of this war
by Organized Capital will come an
alliance of these defensive organiza-