The Coal Srike-A Preliminary
BUDENZ, LOUIS F.
The Coal Srike—A Preliminary Lines Being Drawn On Real Issues By LOUIS F. BUDENZ BCRANTON, Pa. AMERICAN LABOR hi* tory has seen few strike* of the character of the preeent hard coal...
...The reason for this it self-evident...
...Others closed down as early aa the preceding Saturday...
...To the imperialists that is an argument for more foreign aggression...
...And that it taid with the remembrance of how much autpieion the minert can rightly have of the "public," or even of tome of those who profess to be their friends...
...The workera are being taught to unite and to act together in support of their union and in support of the party that expresses their interest, and when they do this as a whole the Government will pass into their hands and the capitalist system will fall to rise no more...
...AMERICAN LABOR hi* tory has seen few strike* of the character of the preeent hard coal suspension...
...Some Facts About Hard Coal | Danger te Life—Anthracite coal, * mining i* on* of the most hazardous industries in the world...
...We hardly Sir how much of a movement we Wk The attitude of the GovernSMt toward u* is uncertain...
...But how it it in this outgrown capitalist system...
...A little knot of Chinese people gather...
...Eugene V. Debs Leads Huge Demonstration of Indiana Labor Convention In Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE...
...This is the demand of the modern Labor movement...
...It's a different job to direct a battle for 1(8,000 men, and to be sitting on the sidelines telling how to do it...
...Tha boya need a rest," the wife of more than one mintr told me...
...On the basia of days actually worked the average weekly earnings of the anthracite miners appear to be about nine per cent 1*** than the average for the country, although the average risk is far higher...
...They can no longer successfully manage industry, and however willing they may be they cannot give employment to the working class, and millions are left in enforced idleness in mute protest against, an outgrown industrial system...
...What they I produce hekwgjt to the...
...They have had some bitter experience...
...The list of the Confraternidad Ferroviaria (the regular railroaders' union affiliated with the International Transport Workers' Federation) received 46,569 out of a total of 60,889, with the "yellows" getting only about 5,000...
...The wage system and its consequent over-production, unemployment, poverty, misery and squalor will disappear...
...They are largely: middle-school students with all the illusions of immaturity...
...The politician tells you how intelligent you are to keep you ignorant I am going to tell you how ignorant you are to make you intelligent...
...THE STRIKE THAT UNITES ALL CHINA By PAUL BLANSHARD HnAT ie the explanation of ly thia unique solidarity among ^Bffst Chineee merchants, laboran and atudenteJ Part of the esplan00 lies in the ancient guild system SBpa which included in one orISKpen the matters and workmen...
...We can **ive only one dollar a teik (sixty cents American) to our takers and we have 158,000 out...
...Billings has no day to look forward to, and so he juat makes the best of the situation feeling all the while that tome day he will be released and whenever that day does come, it will only be a long delayed right that is granted him...
...ORGANIZED LABOR in Terre Haute formed one of the largest demonstrations in the history of the city when union workers of the city with delegates to the annual convention of the State Federation of Labor staged a large parade through the business district last week and terminated the parade in a mass meeting addressed by Eugene V. Debs in Steeg Park...
...Among other thingi they ignore the fact that aevan out of ten inside men earn less than $1,600...
...The man are equally 100 per cent in their union support...
...And you involuntarily tay: "Scabt should be verboten everywhere, at all timet...
...A new social order with an industrial system based upon cooperation instead of competition is near at hand, the Socialist leader forecast in his address...
...But they hold the future of China in their hands...
...Part af (he explanation Of the solidsrity g Shanghai groups slso Ilea in the Mtasort patriotism of the Chinese awtle...
...Labor VV3I Take Command "It is but a question of time until this nation's industries, upon which the whole nation defends, must be owned by the nation for ita own salvation and all the forces of industrial evolution are working to that end," Debs declared...
...There," aaya my Chinese friend from Glasgow, "ia the Chineae hall where the Labor onions tried to hold their Msy Dly meeting...
...Another peculiar anomaly a boat the IMS walkout it the abeence af any "fundamental ltaut*" eat of the suspension The union has gone ea record time after Usee far Nationalisation The teat Tri District Convention at Scranton unaniaowely recorded iteelf la fever of that step "at the appropriate moment.'* President Lewis mode a plea for Nationalisation before the Unitai State* Coal Commission...
...We must have the jw to a decent life...
...Fundamental Issues" Are Lacking The Labor spy alone is at workperhaps...
...In tht big Diamond mine, in tha heart of Seranton, I walked everywhere, even through and ovar tome of the mach* inery...
...In the presence of this great power, workingmen are compelled to organize or be ground to atoms...
...I The merchants of Shanghai have agreed to sell their present stocks of British and Japanese geodi under tht tupervisien of committees of i striken., and thtn to purchase no mora The ultimate hope of the auccttt of the Chinese movement lies in the students...
...If that be true, it follows that he has also the inalienable righ^ to work...
...Gplllerles aileep —with not a creature stirring, almoet literally, "not even a mouae...
...There it no way out for the preeent impasse that face* us all each year except a bigger bettle that will have for its objective on the minora' part: "Nationalisation of the Mine*—with Minert' Participation in Control...
...But now this plan seems to be to play the idea < down...
...Every man stand* to lose over two day* * month from accident Every year over 2,000 men are unable to work because they have been injured...
...There were 30,000 non-fetal accidents—one to every five men in the industry...
...Today it it possible for that same worker, if still alive, to make 100 timet as many shoes, but he doesn't own them now...
...The hstjranee led up a uarrow stair to H r ISnv*»JJ of cold, suspicious tytfC...
...Children beHJftrking in the mills at the age ¦jf*t...
...It is somewhat ironical to note| that the "safety" ituff that many employing Interests have bean playing up, in order te avoid the big cost* of compensation and dtmtge suits, come* back in miners' legislation, to help the...
...The Labor movement alone can prevent war and bring about world peace, the Socialist leader proclaimed...
...The Demand Of Modem Labor "Let the politicians continue to prattle about the tariff and other so-called issues go before the workers and keep them in darkness and servitude — the enlightened ones among them, organized industrially and politically, demand the ownership of the tools of industry and they are building up a Labor movement as a means of securing them...
...No ona even sought to point out tht "No Trespassing" signs, which are permanent warn* Inga at tha entrance'to tha properties...
...The Peking Government is not only weak but its policies have often been more repressive than the policies of the foreigner It has ruthlessly imprisoned strike leaders, suppressed demonstrations and taxed the people mercilessly for the benefit of corrupt military adventurers...
...in one industry in one State, the need for "Safety" legislation requires no discussion...
...Their diet of rice, Jptbles, tea and pickles costs *S*-fifteen cents a day...
...Since then some recognition bM been won in textile mills...
...But upon the major issues of the strike all China is united...
...They stand there looking after the sailor ss he reels down the street...
...Divided on to many racial habits and ways of thinking, the anthracite miner* are a unit in their unionism They know full well the benefit* of the union...
...The two new presidents of District* 1 and 7 are no longer irlsh, as ~ was the rule for years, but one is an Italian, the other a Slav...
...One of them is drunk...
...It ia the historic role of the Labor movement, industrial and political, to take the commanding part in the world-wide transformation...
...When on a summer evening, in ttead of men armed to the teeth, beating up strikers in the streets, you behold a miner calmly looking over the mine in which .he formerly worked, just to past the time away —and no one around to bother him— you have a peculiar feeling about the matter...
...The quietly drawn linea In Northeastern Pennsylvania are merely the battle lines of a preliminary skirmish, that will be followed by a real fight on "fundamentel .line*" in yeara to come...
...SBJ capitalism the workers have bejfi'tt split off from the old guilds, '|B eid loyalties are crumbling...
...The Amalgamated Union demanded the complete abolition of extraterritoriality and the withdrawal of British and Japanese troops...
...Burt, in a coal strike a hard coal atrikt...
...Several active ¦embers of the local, including the...
...There wu M commotion about the bu»Jnees The mm • imply went eat when their shift* ended, end the lett d»y looked pnctictlly like »ny other d*y sround the mine...
...The propaganda is one of education and is perfectly peacable and orderly...
...At the South Wilkes-Barre Colliery, in Wllktt-Barrt, it wat only with the greatest difficulty that I located the maintenance men, moat of whom ware making repairs below ground...
...If there ever wat a demonstration of the need for a Federal Law forbidding the importation of ttrike- i breaker*, we have it here...
...The only bull,I have aatn in this suspension waa a fourlegged one, which chased me acrots a field leading to tht Blue Oooae Colliery in Old Forgt...
...The activities of Labor apie* in the Panther Creek Valley wa* exposed by (he Tamaqua local at that...
...now the Italian and] Slav are making themselves a big¦ger and bigger factor in union affairs...
...A list of substl..SB'tkept ready to take the place [HWld workers who faint with the ¦Jever a nation needed a Labor ***ment it is China...
...Jt it alto induced, to it lookt, by the fear of "Regulation," which may mean a regulation of the Railroad Labor Board eort of ituff...
...Thia attitude of the women Is practically unanimous...
...Our ptme work twelve hours a dsy...
...The British-American Tobacco Company is reported to be losing thousands of dollars a day while the Chinese firm of Nanyang Brothers, leading tobacco merchants, piles up great profits...
...yHs recent year* there haa been al} no class consciousness in China kewaiT the classes have not been [JEct in the management of in¦K With the invasion of West...
...ttaante* sets may take you for a union member, bent on mischief," Then I told him I had been through twenty-live collieries that day and tht day before, and had had trouble in finding anyone to photograph or interview...
...The suspension order brought complete paralysis on the night of August II...
...as to take possession in his collective capacity of the machinery of production and operate it, not to create millionaires and multi-millionaires, but to produce wealth in plenty for all...
...Do you suppose that if you acted intelligently you would be the ones who build palaces and live in hovels...
...tht operators hot bar* Ing thought It worth whilt to bring thtm 'up...
...mnxpected to give them one dollar atpy five daya but we can't afford tag...
...These wages are to be compared with a living budget baaed on Pennsylvania price* which amount* to $2,221 Price* in the hard coal district run even higher...
...For the "public" etn be told that they will alwayt be mulcted, until they themtelvet own the minet—with miner participation in management...
...We hope the day is not far distant when the citizena of California will become sufficiently conscious stricken to demand the release of Mdbney and Billings, but until'they do, some like Comrade Debs will be always naming them in his speeches, others writing articles and stories about them, lest we forget and these innocent victims perish behind prison bars...
...The captains of industry can no longer control the productive forces developed in the present system...
...LEST WE,FORGET OUR DUTY By LENA MORROW LEWIS GETTING into the prison | to see Warren K. Billings is a more difficult job than to get to see the President of the United States...
...The working class alone makes the tools...
...The mules were under* ground, too...
...Now I insist that it it tht workingmsn't doty to so organise economically and politically Si to put an end to thia system...
...1 Agitation Is tht method thst plants the achooi by the side of tht ballet box—Wendell Phillips...
...workingman of today is confronted by the great corporation, which,, has its ironclad rules and regulations, and if they don't suit he can quit...
...The next few months mill undoubtedly witness the rite of many new native industries to produce substitutes for foreign geodt...
...I would not want you to take what I say without accepting it from your own reasoning...
...Perhaps not so far "to come...
...ting the men attend to the business, themtelvet...
...Meanwhile we foreigners wslk down the streets of Shanghai...
...Meanwhile, he keeps busy and for the present he is working in a shoe shop, learning the cobbler's trsde from A to Z, that Is, what can be learned with tools that belong to the period of half a century ago...
...League for Industriel Democracy...
...Until today Labor has had m rights of organization in China...
...No one appeared to challenge me...
...And if you live in a system that deprives you of the right to work, that aystem denies you the right to live...
...iWft have just begun to have a tffljg movement here," he said...
...The prison requirements call for a certain amount of work which he could easily do in a little more than half a day...
...minora in their fight for better conditions...
...From Tamaqua over to Shamokln and than back to Seranton, tht pie* tura li the aama...
...Ahead of us two British tailors are walking on the sidewalk...
...Instead of finding Billings as they had expected in the moving picture house that was open at that time* they found him over in one of the work-shops playing a game of domino chess...
...Women their babiea into the silk mills pSBhare them lying on the floor JSP* "Itlet between the machines 9» they work...
...10, 1924, "Our business this winter should be the best tince 1921 " Thit compsny—the Glen Alden—mey be peculiarly fortunate, but there are other "profitable ruins" in the anthracite region...
...Hit of the leaders of the present Httaent may meet the same fate, ¦fifth they have temporarily mar¦El 180,000 workers in their SflBnsrrow lane of the Chinese :;aKf the city I found the head•Jtrim of the Shanghai union...
...The worker can no longer work by and for himself...
...time, i through information obtained by a girl working in a detective agency in Philadelphia...
...It gives them a chance to get ready for tht ntxt working spell...
...According to the Declaration of Independence, man has the inalienable right to life...
...Even after we had secured the promise that we would be admitted, it took nearly two hours before I Anally got to see him...
...May we never be guilty of that sin...
...we He no recognition from employers JH...
...That is why the Labor question ia alto a political question...
...But he sticks to the job all day, partly because he wants to become expert in the job, oq the principle that practice makes perfect, and also because whenever a fellow is ready to leave the prison, he tries to look as decent as possible...
...At the preceding election tht "yellows" had won by s big msjority...
...He kicks a passing Chinaman...
...They have already raised $600,000 for the strike by their own efforts...
...Some mines worked feverishly until at* most the last minute, in order to be provided with the maximum of coal...
...The real tragedy of* the Chinese crisis is that the Chinese cannot, completely save themselves from the foreigner until they have saved themselves from their own swindling, quarrelsome local Governments...
...I can give you nothing, but if yon stand together, for yen art the majority, there is nothing between the earth and the* stars'that you cannot attain...
...He is a slender, fUjpglStt with large dreamy eyes, Mrttd in a light blue mandarin's Sit of, silk We talked through my ¦Hap friend from Glasgow...
...One of them pointed out the old Jermyn mining fetch, on the high road from Scranton- to Wilkes Bar re It lay in a valley, houses unpeinted, in disrepair/ refute and garbage atrewn shout In profusion Replacing Miner* A Hopeless Taak "That is what we used to have," he said, "and that it only part of it...
...Age of / Organisation "This is an age of organization...
...When the ttrike call comet, therefore, they forget all petty grievances and respond to a man...
...Tha union Mai of the miners' wires it one of tha high spots in the suspension—all tha more noteworthy because most of them are at work themaelvea, to keep np the family reserve, in hotels as chambermaids, in department stores, or in domestic service...
...The Chamber of Commerce ignored these demands...
...They have made countless sacrifices for the success of this strike...
...But thit hat been completely cftanged...
...The old order of society gradually is breaking down...
...Last year 188 anthracite miner* were killed in the mine...
...The operator* ere largely helpless to replace them...
...You may be taken for a strlke'hmmfto teM...
...Throngs crowded the sidewalks and moved along with the parade to the park, where Debs held his audience for more than an hour and a half...
...He was wearing a pair of shoes that he had made himself and they looked as if they were comfortable...
...All crafts and Labor organizations were represented in the mammoth parade that formed in Ohio street and then moved to the park by way of Third street and Wabash avenue...
...So whenever any of Billings' friends are ready to go out into the big »--e/orld once more, he takes a little extra time to make hit friends a pair of shoes that have a more artistic touch than the shoes they ordinarily get...
...the Union And Politics "Upon this question of organisation, my brother, you sad I may differ widely, hut aa we are reason able men we can discuss these differences candidly until we find common ground upi)P',whfaJk we sen stand side, by aide in the trot spirit "Until QMtte recently the average trade unionist was oppoeed to having politiee/ even mentioned in the meeting of hia union...
...They are writing and speaking and raising money...
...We canM be satisfied with political de¦(sfs only...
...It alto gives thtm an opportunity to recover aomtwhat from aomt of the ilia that go with mining work—asthma and other industrial diaeasea of that tort...
...Ht warned me against going,, near tht' mints, without tome official representative with mt...
...A man mutt have worked at laborer -for- two year* before he can become a minert He mutt alao pas* a tett before he can obtain a license That these laws are eattntial, no one who exsmine* the "casualty list" in the collieries can deny...
...Organize a union was a sure way m^arn decapitation...
...The email employer of a quarter of a century ago has practically disappeared...
...capital)*' class who own the tools with which they work...
...private ownership will give way to collective ownership and production for profit to production for use...
...This is an income of over 100 per cent.1 The president who hss recently been emong those crying about the danger of bankruptcy if higher wages sre paid told his stockholders on Dec...
...We haven't made at much headway as we want...
...I "jit you to atreea the fact when Iff gs back to America...
...To the Chinese that is an additional reason why they should be left alone...
...If you have no right to work you have no right to life, because you can Only live by work...
...In the alliance of student and workers lies the hope of Chinese salvation...
...This it induced in part, apparently, by the thought that he will have to deal with the operatort later, to get the best terms possible for the men...
...Miner* a "League of Nations" September 2 we* registr»tion d»y for voting, and there wei mere excitement about that prosaic event than about the atrike iteelf, *o far at outward appearance* went The Scranton Courthouie wat crowded, not with constabulary or arretted miners (a* many might imagine), but with meq and women hurrying to pay their taxea, in order that they might register, as required in Pennsylvania...
...A labor of love, a joy in service that workers in the big commercial world know nothing about, but we hardly think that they would exchange their drudgery on the outside for this privilege that is Billings' while in prison...
...The Chinese people want punishment of the Settlement police with indemnity for the May 30 shooting, complete freedom of speech and press, the reorganization of the Mixed Court to give adequate representation to Chinese, and the reform of the Shanghai Municipal Council to give representation to Chingle taxpayers...
...That patriotism is at tiaaeo ¦parent and incompetent, but no iKgsn deny that it is increasing Uglily throughout China...
...We can eat our own bitterness," they say...
...He •nervously handing out copy for Mgured strike handbills to his distant* aa we talked...
...Tht aimple tool has disappeared and the great machine has taken Ita place...
...They have died willingly fighting for their cause...
...Referring to trade unionism and its developments, Debs said toilers, "conscious of their industrial servitude and their social inferiority as the 'lower class,' have within the last century launched and developed the greatest economic and political movement in history, and this development, in spite of all its mistakes and all its defeats, will continue to grow in power, based upon the intelligence that springs from identity of interest, until it completely reorganizes the industrial life of the people upon a cooperative basis and gives a new civilization to the world...
...It makes no difference what you do on the economic field to better your condition, so long as the tools of production are privately owned, so lonikns they are operated for" private profit of the capitalist, the working class Will be exploited, they will be in enforced idleness, thousands of thtm will be reduced to want, lonw of them to vagabond...
...To a rank outsider, Nationalize tion looks like the miners' best bet, even though it it distant, even though it mutt encounter many difficultiei...
...They have suffered beyond the power of language to describe, but they have not yet developed their latent power to a degree that they can cope successfully with the great power that exploits and oppresses them...
...A workingmam can only work on condition that he finds somebody who will give him permission to work for just enough of what hit labor produces to keep him in working order...
...In the United Stetea, with all its industrial progress, we kill our coal diggers three times es faat a* they are killed in Great Britain...
...Inmates committed for a certain number of years have a habit of marking off a day from the calendar every night which means they are one day nearer to liberty...
...tinkering around their houses or standing in tht mldat of the quiet SuaI qaehaana, landing (Uh...
...They have drawn from almost every race under the sun...
...I Gunman Ara Abeent With strikebreakers missing, theVe it no gunmen rough-stuff...
...and low hundreds arid thousands and tens of thousands of workingman work together cooperatively and produce in great abundance, not for themselves, however, for they no longtr own the tools they work with...
...After the atrike comes the boycott...
...The attach on the operatort' exorbitant profits and their inexcusable royalties can be made more vivid and effective, if public control through ownership can be held up on high...
...the working class alone can use them, and their very lives depend upon their having access to them, and it therefore follows that the working class must finally make themselves the masters of these tools to achieve their industrial emancipation...
...Yellows" Loaing In Argentina The steady campaign being waged by La Vanguardia and other Socialist end trade union papers against tht pest of "yellow" or company unioniam in Argentina is having good effects, judging from the results of the last election of workers' representatives on the board of administration of the railway men's pension fund...
...I what I simply call your attention to the fact that half a century ago all a man needed was a trade, and having this ho could supply himaelf with tht simple tools thtn used, product what he needed, and enjoy the fruit of hia labor...
...The Diviaion Of Society "No matter whether you have studied this economic question or not, you cannot have failed to observe that during the past half century society hat been sharply divided into classes — into s capitalist class upon the one haajl, fhto a working class upon /the other hand.' I shall not take the time to trace thia evolution...
...Women BfljP.,n Shanghai get thirty-nine '•pa day...
...Miners crowding ball games, moving picture ahowa in open park spaces, lounging about tha towns, gazing in ahop windows or aeaking temporary work...
...He came into the reception room wearing a great big broadrimmed straw hat, as if he might have been working in a harvest field...
...Ffbe Labor unions are seizing the ejportuiiiH to organize under prolaation «f the great nationalist move figs...
...It exists chiefly because the foreign Powers need tome hitching post for their exploiting program...
...I would not want you to follow me...
...The June report of the Department of Labor and Industry of Pennsylvania tell* the old, old story: that the deaths and injuries in mining lead all other industries by far...
...The street merchants have U P* same economic point of the laborers but the busi¦weden of the National ChamBVCommerce have already split Mn the Labor bodies in several ,W**nt particulars...
...The mining safety laws of Pennsylvania, particularly in regard to the anthracite region, are stringent in their requirement...
...Pjomic Slavery 01 Chinese Workers is no decent life for the «9sese workers today...
...It is situated oa Chinese soil, but the road in front of it belongs to the International Settlement...
...Tha twolegged bulla art nowhere to be seen...
...One hour tptnt in tht execution ef social juatict it worth seventy hours of prayer—John Rusain...
...There is little complaint from any of thtm...
...M as this ia more than a national fB*>'' *It is a struggle by Chinese rgkers for tolerable conditions...
...Even so, one of the "nig companies in 1923 showed an income of $9,411,000 as against the Coal Commission's net vsluatlon of the mine at $$,909,000...
...Ha hat been recruited into regiment., battaUons and armies, and work haa been subdivided and specialized...
...They have organized...
...That ia sufficient proof, and if he has the right to life it follows that he haa the right to all the means that sustain life...
...Also he had the same genial smile which we observed the time before we visited him, and if anything a little more grit and determination not to let his environment get the best of him...
...Considering that only three other visits have been permitted him since I waa there last October, one can hardly realize what thia short talk could have meant to him...
...All the stress and strain and show of belligerency that fen* •¦rally marks industrial war* fare are conspicuous by their absence...
...At times these students are rash and excitable...
...25 Deserted in the lobby of the Hotel Catty I ran into tht representative of one of tht Maw York garment unions...
...secretary, ware involved...
...Steadily the number of classconscious toilers is increasing in every State and nation on earth, and higher and higher rises the tide that is to sweep away the barriers to progress and civilization," Debs continued...
...In the cotJMillg the double shift of twelveMs Sight and twelve-hour day is PJg universal for women and chil^¦3st well as men...
...The little shop it gone and the great factory has come in Its stead...
...dipping the cocoons into hot PBwpr twenty-two coppers a day, ;*>jwan an American dime...
...No long picket lines before tot mine mouth, no police to "guard" the property, no strike breakers to attempt to run tha minta...
...Peace can be secured in any field by let...
...When 86,000 men lay down their lives in one *'»r...
...They have been divided between the two capitalistic' parties, and the very suggestion that the union waa to be used in the interest of the one or the other was in itself sufficient to sow the aeed of disruption...
...The gunmen's business it at low ebb "in the anthracite" at pretent—because it does not pay the operatort to have these gentry around...
...Don't believe all the operatort' press agents tell you...
...But what we have, gotten, we have gotten through the union...
...Iwas ushered into the presence of the leader of Shanghai's Labor, Li San Li...
...O Wagee — The operator*' eati**" mite that the average annual wage of the minera it over 11,900 a year it too high...
...The Chinaman sttnds there, his face tense with anger...
...The mine mice have coma up from tht depths, driven by hunger, end go for a foray into nearby buildings...
...On the other hand, there are many manifestations of their interest ill the walkout and their desire that it bo put over in a thorough fashion...
...Now man has a right to life because he is here...
...They have the numbers...
...The effort it made—or was made, in the last tie-up—to depress the spirit of the man, and make them Willing to compromise...
...is not likely that the alliance vJBJpehsnts, students and laborers BSM^has directed the strike can MMe...
...Thote' word* of the Scranton Convention of 1925 will be the battle cry of the future conflict, as the economic situation in Coal becomes more and more taut...
...Workingmen have* not until now keenly felt the necessity for independent working elasa political action...
...More Like A Holiday Tha miners look upon tht suspension at thia stage at a holiday...
...The boycott of British and Japanese goods has already done tremendous damage to the capitalists of these two countries...
...aw "Not in a coal strike) tha New Yorker exclaimed, dubioualy...
...But we will keep on fighting...
...He works today with modern machinery which it the property of some capitalist who perhaps liyet 1,000 miles from where the factory is located and who owns all the product because he ownt the machinery...
...On the larger issues of Chinese control of China they are also united, but their method of achieving their goal is not so olear...
...the working elate will stand forth triumphant s<U free and mW aflal will dawn In human progress and in the civilization of the World...
...They are stretching out their hands to the Labor movement...
...The hard coal miners are a veritable "League of Nations...
...On Msy Dsy the foreign police blocked off this road and wouldn't let the Chinese come near their own hall...
...As late as jM the secretary of a textile union Stt beheaded tor starting a strike...
...A man 60 years ago who made a thoe owned it...
...and criminals, snd this condition will prevail in spite of anything that organized Labor can do V the contrary...
...Pronto— The operators have re*** sorted to ever* possible trick to conceal their profit*—over-vsfu*tien, wath isles, division of profits between holding companies and selling companies, etc...
...Formerly-the Irish, | Scotch and Welsh predominated in the picture...
...The Amal!Mg|« Union of Commerce, Labor fBjfoetlon demanded the right wjrkere to strike and organize VM* ita chief objects in the struggle: The Chamber of Commerce blue-penciled this demand and substituted a mild endorsement of the principles of the personal liberty of the workers...
Vol. 2 • September 1925 • No. 37
