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merely "advisory"(?)
The "labor lobbyists" at Albany as.
sert that they have enough promises
Of support to carry the ratification of
the proposed amendment. The state
legislature Of New York, like all other
similar bodies, is composed of the
most petty and timid political shy.
sters-glorifled ward heelers-and
they fear the wrath Of the vote labor
is supposed to control no less than
they fear the opposition of the manu-
facturers. Hence the proposition to
submit the child labor amendment to a
referendum appeals to them, as a
means of evading the issue, by being
able to hide behind the decision of
the voters of the state, after these
voters have been bludgeoned into
idiocy by a campaign Of terrorism,
Democracy In Action.
In the state of Massachusetts,,
where the amendment was defeated
by terrific majority, the beauties of
bourgeois democracy were revealed in
all their majesty. For hypocritical
lying and sustained mendacity that
campaign was without an equal The
state was flooded with a propaganda
of viciousness thru every agency that
money can debauch. Never at any
time was the question debated on its
merits.
Massachusetts, is the center of the
textile industry. 1t was in that state
that the industry had its inception in
this country. From here it has ex
tended to various other states and
during the past three decades has
penetrated the south, where the ex'
ploitation Of children proceeds unham-
Ipered by any restraints except the
limit Of human agony. Many New
England textile concerns have branch
mills in Alabama, Georgia, South Caro-
lima, North Carolina and Tennessee,
Georgia, Louisiana and North Caro-
lima have already refused to ratify
and yesterday South Carolina by a
unanimous vote of the legislature and
without debate rejected the proposed
amendment.
In the southern states where the
legislatures are openly owned by the
textile octopus, the votes OF the legis,
latures are rushed thru, while in the
northern states the manufacturers
seek to delay the vote Of the legisla,
ture until "the people" have been con
suited. With Massachusetts, as the
bright and shining light in the firma
ment Of democracy those who distill
the blood of children into profits are
carrying this beacon into other states
where the great campaign Of "educa
ton" along the lines practiced in
Massachusetts will be conducted.
The motive force of the drive In
Massachusetts, was an organization
known as the national committee fol
rejection of the goth amendment
with headquarters in Washington, d
IC., and offices in the Union Trusi
Building, where is also located (quit,
by accident) the Offices of the nationa
manufacturers association. This com
mittee is composed of the most motor
ious labor-hating manufacturers in the
country and is as follows:
Millard d. Brown. chairman, Cont
mental Mills, Philadelphia.
G. s. Anderson, The Norton com
pany, Worcester, Mass.
P. e. Glenn, Exposition Cotton Mills
Atlanta, Ga.
w. A. B. Dalzell, Fostoria Glass
company, Moundsville, w. Va.
r. e. Wood, Montgomery Ward &
company, Chicago.
W. H. Leonard. The Denver Rocl
Drill Manufacturing company, Den
yer, Colo. J
w. Frank Carter, of Carter, Norton
& Jones, st. Louis, Mo.
The director of this committee ii
one Frederick w. Keough, one Of the
editors of the odious scab publication
Industrial Progress" which opposed
every labor measure and demand the
past five years and is now waging 8
campaign against the S-hour day.
Then there was the Massachusetts
branch of the national manufacturers
association, known as the Associated
industries OF Massachusetts" dominat
ed, Of course. by the textile barons
This organization, in turn lined III
the anti-feminist woman Patriot" az
gregation, composed Of the codtisf
textile aristocracy Of the Back Ba,
district Of Boston, that carried on
propaganda of hysteria to the effect
that the government OF the United
States. influenced by the notorious
Russian Communist" Zinoviev, was
about to invade the .sanctity of the
homo and tear the children away from
the parents. (This Is not an exagger
alton, but an actual quotation that
appeared in more than eighty different
pieces OF literature distributed thru
out the state by the millions.)
These organizations launched the
most stupendous and vicious cam
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