WHOSE INDEPENDENCE DAY?
GOTTESMAN, EDMOND
WHOSE INDEPENDENCE DAY? The Fourth of July and the Workers* EDMOND GOTTESMAN JaCf«i»ry, Neckwemr W«rket> Union rpODAY we celebrate the I 149th Anniversary of the atoniSf of the Declaration of...
...They gave the •peculators powers of sovereignty Witt these lands ami enacted laws fcvorable to their investments...
...Can you recall a single law that the Judiciary has interpreted humanely and progressively in the interests of the millions of toiler...
...Of course you are not...
...The total cost of all our crime exceed* the nation's annual budget," So you can easily see at a glance what the situation will be when "under Socialism everything goes to the dog...
...We celebrate jpl rejoice that the inhabitant* of the Colonies freed themselves from the reign -of the Kings of England, and have established a Republic wherein every man and woman ia a free end sovereign citizen, and under the Constitution are guaranteed the inalienable right of jjfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, also freedom of speech and assembly, r At thst time machine production, division of labor, and wage worker* eid not esi*t...
...If paper money was to be repudiated, the paper tokens of indebtedness owned by the more wealthy or speculators should have been re-pudiated...
...Only a few were willing to sacrifice and save until they accumulated enough capital to go into some form of business...
...Of course not...
...Laws were enacted to protect and to insure the exploitation of Negroes...
...The world has been dethroning kings ever since...
...Dswes, of the open-shop crusade fame is Vice-President, and both houses of Congress are Republican...
...GLOUCESTER, Mass...
...the Union of Italian Port Workers, organized at Genoa on April 10, and the Portuguese Union ef Maritime and River Worker...
...June 28...
...An intelligent reflection should inspire them to greater efforts to free themselves from their economic overlords...
...Workers are not underling* because they do not work hard...
...will you celebrate because you are an independent...
...JOHN'S, N. F., June 25.— Four fishermen of Burin were drowned when the wreck of the Swedish steamship Argos, on which they were st work, suddenly broke in two and sunk...
...Are you represented in the judicial branch of the Government, that Interprets the Constitution and the laws...
...Are you as a worker represented in Congress by your own working class representatives, who legislate against exploitation, unsafe mines, mills and factories, against child labor, and long hours of work for women in industry...
...Then tin order to reconcile the masses to their subordinate position in society and to keep them working forgthe masters, the history of the original accumulation was obscured by politicians who serve the owner...
...The jails of England were opened and whites were sent to the colonial master* to exploit...
...The army and tha police atand guard at the gates of heir mines, mills and factories...
...The dead man was Joseph Corneal, 26, of Peterson, N. J., fire-man...
...Then the game Congress robbed thousand* ol workers and soldiers by repudiating the paper money which they received for their labor or service in th« army...
...Their sons, who never saved or worked in all their lives, inherited this plunder and today they constitute our "eminent, families...
...It enacted laws to redeem at par the worthless certificates of public debt...
...This investigation has disclosed that $6,000,000 were contributed to the Republican party and Mr...
...But you, who are one of the 90 per cent who own only labor power, are an American citizen and a work-ingman...
...The current belief is that capital had its origin in the self-denlJM and savings of some early workers...
...If all the toilera of this land would head this, Independence Day would have a new meaning for them, it would bring about the emancipation of nine-tenths of the people from the exploitation of on^-tenth...
...The facts are that the first forms of capital had their origin | in slavery and the slave trade, land speculation, and Government aid, support and protection of slavery, (peculation, fraud and enforced labor of convicts and political prisoners...
...A great territory in the Weat ovei which the war had been fought was largely given away to railroad speculators, timber and mineral grafter...
...coal, iron, steel and copper mines, the mills, the railroads, the steam ships, the gas, electric and water power plants, the shops, factories, the beaks and the credit system, and finally they own the Govern-ment...
...British political prisoners were shipped to the speculator* and employers, and worked as bond servants...
...It has continued down to the present day and, despite the evidence, the apologist* of capitalism teach and millions of worker* believe that our millionaires owe their success to their own unaided efforts...
...BUILDING GREAT FORTUNES The Fable that Capitalists, Unaided, a Earn the Wealth They Accumulate • By JAMES QNBAL PROBABLY no doctrine is more sincerely held by Americans than the belief that the success of American capitalists is due to their individual efforts unaided by Government support...
...Lost in forgeries by trusted employes, $100,000,000...
...BUTLER, N...
...They even ignore the fact that the sons who inherited the wealth filched from slave labor in the South and ineesttd it in capitalist enterprises owe their success not to their own efforts but to the fact that theli fathers and grandfathers robbed Negroes and whites for generations...
...The men of that day ¦ere hunters, fishers, tiller, of the e*jl, traders, and merchants...
...The first forms of capital in this country had their origin in all these measures of'Government aid...
...The colonial statutes were littered with laws to recapture runaways, to punish them, and to increase their terms of service for the slightest offenses...
...In contradiction to this belief it msy be asserted that each group thst hf* been prominent in our history has had its origin in Govern-ttent support and favors...
...In the case of wage workers their wages were regulated by law...
...CARMEL, Pa., June 24.— As the result of a cave-in in the Locust Spring mine of the Reading Coal and Iron Company, two miners have lost their lives...
...Of course you are not...
...It is expounded in history text books, by editors and^poMticians, by economists and clergymen, and is woven into tha...
...Lost in swindling stock sales, $6,000,000,000...
...LABOR'S DIVIDENDS QUEBEC, June 27.—Nine men, the whole crew of the tugboat Ocean King, which went down in the St' Lewrence River here when rammed by the Canadian Pacific liner Marloeh, hare been lost...
...n the authority of Republican Senator Arthur Capper the following summary of the general cuiiednes* of American society under Capitalism is presented for your prayerful consideration as one year's inspiring output: "Taken in 'holdups' in 1924, $2,-660,000,000...
...The nearest approach to a working-man's point of view by Mr...
...But this process of Government aid to create capitalists and masters did not end with the original accumulations...
...2. We have a class that owns the land, the minerals, 'tis...
...It is a bit refreshing to note that, according to the police authorities of the United State*, of all the large citie* In tin country, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ia the cleanest in the list with respect to criminality...
...Mr Coolidge is President of the United States, Mr...
...Coolidge was when he donned a pair of overalls, and pitched hay, which was featured in the movies to demonstrate his relation to the toiling man...
...The Uiur of'England interfered with tfctir trade and commerce, taxed tad ruled without their consent, and committed numerous acts described hj the Declaration of Independence, atjch actuated them to rebel and establish a Republic...
...A class of new rich wa* again ¦pawned after the Civil War...
...These gentlemen will make this Fourth of July a solemn celebration, and no doubt they are sincere...
...favor* need be requested for Milwaukee, which ha* had a Socialist administration for man* years...
...Since his election to the Presidency can you recall a single concrete lsw he has advocated in favor of Labor and had it enacted by his Republican Congress...
...This class of owners, that | constitute about 10 per cent ef the people of this country, are tha dom-0mt factors on tha political and economic field and control the Government alternately through the Republican or Democratic parties...
...June 24.— Four miner* were trapped in the AJsx mine near Burke, Idaho, and the mine flooded, today, when a" raise from H< main shaft to the water-filled old workings broke through before Intended...
...Forget the fictions and get the facts...
...More Would Join 1. T. F. Among the organizations recently announcing their intention of applying for admission to the International Transport Worker*' Federation are the Esthonian Railroadmen's Union, with 2,000 member...
...Sthen as the colonies grew up and j$$pr was required, the cflonial legislatures passed laws legalizing the slave trade...
...Their battalions of dollars ara today a gi eater force than the battalions of soldiera were...
...They are stout 90 p?r cent of the people of this country...
...The struggle can be carried by organising into trade and Labor unions, into Labor political parties...
...The Fourth of July and the Workers* EDMOND GOTTESMAN JaCf«i»ry, Neckwemr W«rket> Union rpODAY we celebrate the I 149th Anniversary of the atoniSf of the Declaration of Independence...
...They gathered more capital and, as it increased, more labor was exploited, and the more labor wa* exploited the more capital increased...
...Their divine right of possession and ownership is upheld by all the agencies of Government...
...Cool-idge'a campaign...
...When the Constitution was framed sad this Government established, it fa* done for and in the interests of the merchants, traders and farmers *f 1776...
...Thus it seems that when our enemies ask God for help against the crime waves that ara sweeping the country, no specie...
...Ara vou represented in the Executive branch to enforce all the guarantees of Ahe Constitution, for freedom ef life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
...Euro-Hen government gave land speculators great tracts of land in the American colonies...
...PLAINFIELD, N. J., June 23.— Charles Angerbnuer, 24 years old, a lineman for the Pubjic Service Electric Company, was shocked to death here this morning while working atop an electric pole at Plainfield avenue and West Eighth street...
...Tha money monarchs controll all social, political, economic and educational institutions...
...The Cunard Anchor life steamer Tuscania remmed and sank the fishing schooner Rex of this port with the loes of fifteen live* today...
...Through their power of the purse they control elections and legislatures...
...The majority were lazy, careless and thriftless...
...Do you expect a President elected by the contributions of the coal and textile barons, oil, steel, and the hundred and one corporations, the bankers, manufacturers and real estate owners, to appoint judges, Cabinet officers and members of various Commissions hostile to the interests of these contributors...
...working-man, you know this from your many experiences in strikes...
...June 23.—One man wa* killed ind four seriously injured la a freight wreck on the Susquehanna Railroad at 1:27 a. m., today, at Smith Mills, west of Pompton Lakes...
...Once accumulated in this way these forma or'capital acted like snowballs rolling down hill...
...It is also probable that no other doctrine is less entitled to belief on H» basis of evidence...
...BALTIMORE, June 13.—Jeremiah Macks, a seaman, died today under fifty tons of Coal on the Britieh steamer Rhode Island, moored st Locust Point Macke pranged fifty feet from the upper deck of the veesel with an iron bar in his hand when he and another seaman tried to dislodge a lump of coil jammd on the hatchway...
...Three work-rs lost their lives in a dynamite explosion in the plant of the New Jersey Zinc Company here...
...The Government aid to expectant capitalist* in this period created the modem type of millionaires...
...Mr, Coolidge has filled his Cabinet, the Supreme Court, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission with men who are safe and sane 'or the National Manufacturers' Association, the Chambers of Commerce, the food and grain speculator] the corporations, and the trusts...
...SPOKANE, Wash...
...Americans dethroned King George III, in 1776...
...political traditions of the nation...
...The bar suspended his body part «ay down into the hole end he wa* suffocated under a stream of coal...
...Even the stttlsment of the colonies was a tones ef business ventures...
...Today the situation is different...
...Even today we observe the tendency to give away great power sites, and thousands of laws are enacted to protect and increase the fortunes of our ruling classes...
...The miners, steel workers, the garment worker*, especially the Ludlow miners, vividly remember their experiences with the injunction and the militia...
...Won't it be awful...
...And if a strike threaten* the power of tha exploiting capitalists, the Executive will send the militia to suppress it Mr...
...In view of all this it behooves every worker and producer to give earnest thought to their atatus in our economic, political and social life...
...tVhen the miners, railroad workers, garment, textile, shoe und all other workers go on strike for humane conditions and better wages, the judges do not hesitate to i**ue injunctions prohibiting picketing talking to worker* not to take r ---¦-- — — strikers' places and to hold meetings...
...WATERTOWN, N. Y„ June 29...
...against 866 days' work ta a.year ca the railroads, against low wages and against the high co»t of living and housing...
...But we have enthroned money kings, whose rule is despotic and cruel...
...Just recall the la»t Presidential campaign, jjmiator Borah with a committee dr the Senate of the United States conducted an investigation of campaign contributions...
...They are a subordinate class because they accept the falsehoods which they are told and have not yet supported a party that represents them and which seeks to recover the rich heritage of which they are deprived by Government aid to those who five on their labor...
...If you insict on right* of free speech and assembly and continue to picket or to hold open-air meetings the Judge will promptly send you to jail without a jury trial, for contempt of court...
...The first Congress under Washington created a group of new rich by certain legislation...
...The fiction of the "thrifty man" who saved and the "lazy man" who wasted his earnings was created to justify the continued exploitation of million...
...We now have two distinct* cissies: 1. The wage workers who produce everything and own nothing but their labor-power...
Vol. 2 • July 1925 • No. 27
