Nogales international., 1941-12-05
1t Was The Workers But Alone?


lied labor and an able one. He is, generally speak
ing clear headed, hard-headed man of integrity and
steadfastness
In pleading aid to the defense program Murray
wrote letter to President Roosevelt in which he said
"It is the workers of the nation who struggled to
establish American democracy, and it is they who
shall assure it's preservation"
This is the language of labor leader speaking
for the benefit of his constituents and it should be
assayed as SUCH It is oratory. AS such it needs
shaking down.
In the first place, when American democracy was
established there were few workers. in the OF
organized industrial workers today. The plain men
who enlisted in the Continental army bore the brunt
Of the strugge-but they were mostly small farmers
There were many who bore equally manful part IN
the struggle who by no stretch of the imagination
could be cassed as "workers'-men like Washington,
Jefferson, the Adamses, Hamilton, Morris, Caloman,
Wayne, Henry-the list is endless.
To name them is not to suggest that the plain
man of America did not actually win his own Freedom
or that it has not been the plain people who have
maintained it. Of course it was, and of course it is.
"The people, and ''the workers" are not the same
thing "The people, means all the people, the farmers,
the little shOpkeepers the fOremen the professional
men and women yes the rich, who are also peo-
pie "The Workers. has been narrowed by MARKHAM
dinnng to the urban proletariat especially that
part of it which is organized politically and econom-
ically. That's different
It is certainly true that the plain people bore the
brunt of the Revolutionary struggle, they bear the
brunt Of all struggles and the burden of the world.
But not alone.
The patriot cause was supported by cross-sec-
ton Of the American people, Many people OF wealth
supported the Tory cause but many quite plain people
also preferred to sell their cattle their labor for
British gold. It has even been maintained that the
patriots We're minority of all the coonists, but even
if that were true, the patriots united not by
class or position but by conviction and love of free
dom, regardless of how they got their living.
If is fha fact that the American revolution had
invaluable support from every class and condition. of
Americans that made the American revolution differ
ent, and gave American society it's permanence.
Today we shall preserve our liberties in the same
way, not through the workers alone, basic and
indispensable though their part surely s but through
all the people.
Phil Murray is sensible man. After climbing
down from the stump, We think he would be first to
admit these things.
Be cautious at all times-but in preventing fires
be cautious to beat the blazes!
Furnaces are like some hlsbands-f you don't
watch them closely they go out.
Boat with several new autos aboard sunk. Crew
and, no doubt, number of pedestrians were saved.
One of the best ways to keep friendship is to
return it.
Strange but blind faith often leads you safely
through the dark places.
It's easy to hold down any job-the hard thing to
do is make it grow!
Figures show 121 900 now out of work in France.
And the rest of the population probably wonder what
they're working for.
Wonder where gossips would stand if there
wasn't any middle of the sidewalk.
The careless driver and the thoughtless pedes-
trian would think the same of each other-f either
ever stopped to think.
Taxes have nut real meaning into the old express
sion, "You can't take it with YOU"