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an equal antipathy to responsibility,
of that kind.
WHAT we would like to drive into
w the mob Of the average worker
and he is almost everybody-is, that
the employers are more interested in
making profit out of workers energy
than in tracing his genealogy. If they
can make more profit out of black
man than out of a white man they
will employ the black man. Ditto, a
yellow, brown or green man. There
are coolies of the latter and they are
not all in Ireland.
T EFT us take the l. w. WIS for In
II stance. There isn't a dumbell
from Cape Cod to the real estate
sharks of Los Angeles who does not
believe that the wobblies come from
Russia. (They used to come from
Germany during the war!) Yet the
roster of an l. w. W. convention in
the days of it's prime reads like the
guest list of a New England May
flower celebration. But the capitalist
papers create the impression that
everybody who is against them is a
foreigners and the Henry Dubbs' are
taught to say that those dissatisfied
people should 'go back to where they
! came from"
IuOW would this work? c. E. Ruth
IL enberg, would go back to Cleve-
land, Eugene v. Debs to Terre Haute,
William 2. Foster, to Massachusetts,,
Anita Whitney, could not go any far
Their than where she is, Fred Merrick,
might hop over from Pittsburgh to
West Virginia-well, come to think
OF it about the only prominent alien.
who would have to travel quite a dist
ance on deportation warrant is Sec
rotary of Labor Davis, the Welshman,
who is saddled with the job of deport-
ing the rest of us. (By the way, it
might interest some of those who are
in "durance VILE" to know that Davis
gets an iron man" which means a
dollar, for every sucker who joins the
Loyal Order Of the Moose)
livery worker is an alien in the
- eyes of the capitalists except a
fellow like certain scissor bill. who
boosted that in seventeen years he
was never late for work, and so con-
cerned was he over the fortunes of
the firm, that he refused an increase
in wages of three dollars week. lest
his employers go broke. He was get
ting twelve. By the way two of the
owners of the firm died from alcohol.
ism. They could afford the luxury
out OF what they robbed the scissor
bill on. The father of the two loyal
followers of Bacchus was a model
christian, gave liberal contributions
to the salvation army and PROXIMITY
fred any of his employees who had
the temerity to ask for an increase
In wages. The man who was never
late for work-if man he was-was
never fired, and was never arrested
Tor having violated the criminal svn-
dlcalist law. He was not born in the
United States, but he was never call.
ed an alien.
| BELIEVE it Is quite clear from
the above that the employing class
mas no more regard for the sweat of
on Anticipated 100 per cent American
than it has for the muscle of a native
OF Zululand, provided both are equal
ly efficient in making his pocket buJpa
with coin of the realm. Our class war
J prisoners are descended from everv
race under the sun. If YOU want IN
be loyal slave, just keep quiet. work
hard when you get a Job. buv usad
TN can out OF which you can make a
shield for that part of your anatomy
winch was made to be kicked. You
VIII need the armor The boss will
test his boot on it. You will be frat
IN war and last at the peace table
But you will have the satisfaction ~
dying loyal supporter of capitalist
civilization.
|
F remember rightly it was Teddy
Roosevelt, who uttered the famous
saying; What is the constitution
among friends?" He said a mouthful
TAKE free speech, free press and free
assemblage for instance. Those rights
are written into our constitution but
take advantage TO them at your
peril! Did you ever hear of the no.
llceman who listened to soap boxer
quoting Thomas Jefferson, mistook
the orator for the patron saint of the
democratic party, took him to the
ponce station and after tapping him
on the head with his club charged
him with disorderly conduct? 81 heard
lot about that scoundrel," declared
republican police court judge. al
believe 1t was he who killed Abraham
Lincoln. If tha Qtnfufa 10 It,..t..As-