The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
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perform and the service I have endeav- ored to give, know that I am not even pink. But 1 think that there Is some general misconcept1on of the term rad ical'. There are so many varieties of them. 1 believe in the expression of conservative demands, radical in the eff fort to get them The devil of the thing IS that those who would label themselves as Radicals, as a rule, know nothing of the great, fundamental principles of the labor movement or of the ideals to- ward which 1t Is striving. It takes all sorts of people to make up a nation, and it takes all sorts of people to make up a labor movement All we ask is that this labor movement of America and all America shall be and continue to be movement of wage earners, for wage earners, and by wage earners.
 ''We are not always able to determine who these shall be. The trade union come under the general terninology of
 Reds" the work that I have tried to movement has not the choice of the ma terial with which 1t must work Big Business, large employers of labor have kept wide open channel for years for the purpose of bringing peoples to our country so far below the standard life and work which prevail i'll America that 1t has been matter of little choice with us. We have held, and hold that if the hordes of men from these backward countries of Europe are brought into the United States, with all of the oIn1S- sions and commissions upon their heads, if they are good enough to be brought to our America for profit they are good enough for us to try to organize them and make better Americans out of them. And If, her and there -ther IS a Red or a Radical, 1t IS not our fault, but the sin must be upon the heads of those who brought them to America. We realize that so long as they are wage earners and organizeable we will organize them, not as Reds and Radicals, but to try to make better men and better citizens of them. And not only do they regard us as an opponent worthy of their steel, but they have felt it's point of contact.
 When 1 had the honor and the pri- vilege of addressing the wheat confer ence at Chicago few months ago, upon the invitation of the committee having the conference in charge, l called at tention to this specific thing; that the difficulty with the farmers, the trouble with the farmers was that they were led by gentlemen farmers, by political farm CTS, by trust farmer, by fertilizer trust farmers and magazine owner farmers, and that what they wanted and the goal to which I believed they should strive was, as the American trade union move ment Is made up of wage earners, for wage earners and by wage earners, they wanted a movement of dirt farm CTS, real farmers who are working up- on the soil.
 "The antagonists, natural or ignorant, have at all times and up to the present f,, ,r1, f,,11x ft1a cultural and industrial workers from rejected something as a schism be- tween the two. Some of the statisti- clans employed by that particular in terest to which I have referred have pointed out a certain class of workers and a comparison of their daily wage with the income of farmers upon cer- tain products. N preference was made to the fabulous profits made by the stock jobber, by the exchanges, by the money lenders and the intermediary commissioners, and on both sides, who, greatest users and consumers of the farmers products, if not the great mass of the wage earners, and who are those who use and consume the products of mans industrial labor if not the farm ers'? The profteers on both sides have taken more out of the products of each than are given in the form of return to the farmers and wages to the workers.
 The falsely termed "open shop and the reasonable appellation of that as the American plan-the American plan must consist of a virile citizenship, and American workers can only maintain that virility and vision and insistence up on progress when they are united and federated Well, the drive was on and some instances we had to yield some things, and despit the calamitous howls of the interests it was the most fortu nate thing for our country and our peo- pie that in 1922 the organized work ing men and women of America, para phrasing the old coup1et that ''it is bet ter to have loved and lost then not to have loved at alf;'' said that ''it is bet ter to resist and lose than not to resist at all" The result of that resistance