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lot he water power monopolies, The |
farmers have beem fighting it and 1)
|am here to ask among other things, |
pit |your help in the coming session of |
\ Congress to see to it thay when that |
WER If OR M LATION effort is renewed, there may be stand- |
ling beside the farmers, who are fight- |
ling the fight of the people, organized
| 1abor, whose interests are precisely |
|the same in this matter. |
ird of People of United States Are Farm-| |
That is only one illustration out of |
At Least One-Third Are Wage-Earners. hundreds of how the farmer and the |
i wage-carner, standing together for |
United, What Power Could Stand Against, same things which means good |
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hh Address Before A. F. of L. Convention, December 20, 1917. jgovernmeng and, above all, the use
{of the natural resources of this coun-
hi pers and Delegates: I have mainly for the happiness and welfare | {yy not mainly to make money for
Mr. Cresey, former head profit of a few of ihe people. You | people.
to say to you on behalf
we stand outside the of the organized farmers of America,
nting the Federal Board of majority who earn their living with \y 5 willing
Fito. with a member- | their hands;
as large ag your own, a | | privileged class;
» of something over two | special privileges is the central en- | protherhood; that we look to you to]
~anized farmers, and what | emy and, above all, who believe that | yelp us in the things that are good |
to be in the near future, a [the essential things to do in these jor us and that we stand willing to
ip of two and a half mil- | United States is to take political pow- | help vou in the things that are good |
organization was brought [er out of the dollar and put it into | for you.
barticularly for the purpose | | the hands of man. The scale tf liv-
he the organized farmers of ling o
bv behind the government the
President in the conduct of mer
particularly to do for the
at your ‘own organization |
kor the man who works off |
You will pardon us far-|
ve believe that we come |only just beginnfg for,’ from the time | ges
the earth than any other | since there have
en, It is the earth that |has never been until now one single !qpn 200 per cent, and more, that it is
he essential things for the | organization which could bring to- | not the farmer who gets the price
hd life of our children— | get her all the organized farmers, and | vou pay for food, mainly, but that at
thing, shelter, industry, fall the power of the ‘organized far-!icast one-half of that price, and some
ring, transportation and mers, and put that power behind the | official figures show 75 per cent of
All these things that! things for which the farmer stands. |tjat price goes to the middle man,
better than the beast come | ‘The Department of Labor, the|gnd the unfair middle man is the
rom thie earth.
Ss all these things io man, | Labor Safety, the Employers’ Liabil- | he is the enemy of the consumer
reserve thai the prosperous far- |iving, that the farmer is monopo-
has in his farm is equivalent to | yt, tha; the farmer is grinding the
er has in his bank. You have long | remember that the farmer is in exact-
hag risem 100 per cent, the)
, for it is ‘the farmer who j Act, and many other things you have
t Un distributing her most | done, and the farmers on their side, |
enefits Now the
gether.
Now, as I said to you, the Federal
nenta] things, is api to be | Department of Agiiculture, the Bu- |; this war
No other body of equal | peau of Markets, and in nean ly every
the United States has had state laws which have been good both
ttention from the govern- | for vou and for him.
other body of men has| If these things 1 have said, are
ttle and received even less, | {irue, if the essential interests of the
hs the farmer, and the |wage earner and the farmer are the
e wage-worker who pro- same, then why is ft that these two
i. sends me here to speak grea: bodies of men, two million and
the wageworker who con- a halt on: your side and two million
‘on his side, should be working with
ner is not 8 yapitati, and | | prasically the same point of view,
ia t vel 4 rotuhavige ithe dndimate action
h you. The farmer Jhich would give us, ‘instead of two
Lr; his average wages may 1solaied bodies, one body united for
be two or three hundred muvual purposes of five million men.
roduets from his farm and i I want to mention just one subject
sur hundred dollars that
br cash, but what he gets
product of his capital but
t of his labor. What he
t ag much the product of
bs the work the carpenter |
his tools or the work the
oes with his teols. The
1 interests of the farmer
The best blood of your
young men is going out
trenches to make this fight.
food, the ships, the munitions
and ithe laboring men.
hands.
ar¢—and I do not
mean if these two bodies were w orlk- |
ng together. I sat'here on this plat- | ta TorEty of
diffpssion of the paper . question, |
knowing - that behind that question
[lies the question of the control of
| water power, as -one of the delegates
eresits of the wage worker ; mentoned. For nearly ten years, in
b interests of the capitalist, | session after session of the Congress
why I am here today. ‘of ihe United States, the effory has
sight it might seem that been made to fasten upon the citi-
its of the men who are zens of the United States the greatest
ood consumers and the of all possible monopolies, the mo-
bore farmers might clash. nopoly in water power. The conser-
ve look behind the appar- vation of natural resources means
the more we study the conservation of the raw material of
be background, the more power——coal, oil, natural gas and
(your interests are the same.
over
ments, what power
the finished product?
tha: civilization on the basis of how
he same platform as the much power they control. Year after
You and he belong to year the effort has been made, and
ody of American citizens. ‘has been defeated until mow, to put
belong to the great body 'the largest remainibg asset that there
we things and stand very heaven that can stand
just demands
unite upon?
President Gompers:
who "has jusy now
councils of
might
formulating
commitices or
citizens who believe, that is in the hands of the people of the |r, orully addressed us, has asked | JUST KIDS nin? §
lent of this country exists |nation, to put that also in the hands | hether some consiructive action ; — Stayin’ In. By Ad Carter
rms mm — ow . may result from his suggestions, and |
the question of the selection of 2]
pr @ a 42 E52 committee or the authorization of the
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A Remody That
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request that
io final adjournment.
Deleg
{matter be
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journment. (Seconded and
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1 am not here to tell you |
te Grange of Pennsylvania, and the farmer are part of the great jo. in detail] this can be done, but!
who believe that|inat we extend to yom the hand of |
But the Child Labor Bureau; the Bureau of | {enemy of the farmer just exactly as
y but through the hand of |ity Act, the Workers’ Compensation | Tha interests of the two stand to-
farmer acting by little isolated groups, have p,, ard of Farm Organizations came
fundamental things, like | { produced the Parcel Post Law, the linto existence particularly to help us
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young men and the best blood of our
into the
The
and,
above all, the unconquerable will to
carry this thing through to a victori-
ous conclusion rests with the farmers
Together
these two great bodies hold the fate
of this ‘war in their hands just exact-|
ly as they hold the prosperity and | lido you wish?” aske
the averfare of the country in their
And remember this—if any |
Iman tries to tell you that the farmer |
of the two is about the same and | \is responsible for the high cost or! 5
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{the reserve that the prosperious Work- face of the man who must face fact, |
{heen working together in a nation-| {ly the same position you are; remem- |
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8 FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
(By Albert Rupp.)
We want the freedom: of the press;
We want the means ito think as free men.
In toese great times of storm and stress
We want the right to speak and be men.
Let us declare our discontent
Whenever laws demand repealing,
And let us help our government
To know the peopie’s earnest feeling.
We want no censorship of news
Which: gives .us lies as information.
We want thc Truth to guide our views )
And guard the welfare of our nation.
Let us mot grope in fearful night
For doubts condemued and blunders biinded;
But let ug walk in wizdom's light,
Erect, and hopefui, and broad-minded.
We want the freedom of tthe press,
Achieved by heroes brave in story,
And handed down these times to bless,
Against the foes that hate our glory.
Forced to the clash of war's wild arts.
Ringed by the mad world’s crisis-fires,
Let us have Truth to thrill our hearts,
SOCIALISTS TO RAISE
$1,000,000 FUND
LLaunch Campaign to Raise Huge Sum to
Win Vidtories in 1918 Congressional
Elections—Plan Indorsed By Party's
National Executive Committee.
(By J. Louis Eughahl.) i A v
Chicago, Dec. 21.Plans Tor ing to HLS a series of l:a.ets on
launching a campalgn to raise a «Mil suggested topics as follows: ‘““Viola-
d” for the rapidly ap- tion of Constitutional Right,” “Sup-
| pression of the Press,” “Conscription :
1918 | {of Wealth,” “Labor im War time,” -
were adopted at the meeting of the | ana “Scarcity of Necessities of Life.”
Socialist Party National Executive] it was voted to issue as a leaflet
Conmittee just held in Chicago. This | the statement of Karl Liebknecht to
wiill be the big effort of the national | the court that sent him to prison.
Socialist Party in the immediate fu- | Help Appeal O'Hare Case.
ture. ; | ‘Ine sum of $250.00 was voted
The fund will met only be used to | from the Woman's Fund to help pre-
carry the 1918 congressional cam- | pars ‘the apeal of Kate Richards
paign, which will be inaugurated at | O'Hare, associate editor of Social
once, but it will also be used in part |Revatution, and chairman of the
to finance the defense of Socialists | committee on war and militarism as
unjustly persecuted by federal au- (the St. Lois Convention, who was
lion Dollar Fun
proaching campaign year of
& And right to speak our heart’s desires.
Q ~—Issues and Events.
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HIS LIMIT. 'always happens to tough meat.”—R.
A farmer in great meed of extra IR. Telegrapher,
hands at haying time finally asked . 9 9
been farms there | | {hings the farmer must ‘buy have ris-'
1
| town fool, if he could help him out.’ Mz.
| “Whatll ye pay?’ asked Si.
“I'll pay what you're worth,” a
wered the farmer.
We come to you at this time, |
in rhis great crisis in the country and |ing that you were alive on the 15th |
the world, saying to you that if there
say there are
as an illustration of what it means, | that if there are subjects in whiich we
‘of what it would mean, what it could | |must differ, let us frankly differ and |
let it go ag that, but that in the vast |
questions affecting you
form this morning and listened to al, and affecting us, our interests and
Then,
with the will to get tozether, aly thag
fs needed is the simplest machinery,
for, it we have been beaten over and |
again as the farmers and you |
have been beaten over and over again
in ¢pite of your magnificent achieve- |
is there in this |
country that can stand against the |
just demands of the men and women:
who produce the raw material and |
the men and women who make up |
One-third of
all the people of the Unfited States
against the
which this two-thirds | fe 1 in this calling by employers who
Mr. Pinchot,
so eloquently and
the farm-
occur for
some
genera] policy to carry out to a suc-
cessful conclusion the work and the |
hopes and the aspirations of both the
farmers and the industrial workers. I |
matier before the |
I convention and if it be agreeable I |
restion made by |
| Vive«Predgident Duncan that the mat- |
Committee on
hey report to this convention bhelore
ate Koveleski moved that the
referred to the Committee
report to
final ad-
THEN CAME SILENCE.
Grump (with newspaper)—
Here's an odd case—a woman mar-
ns- ries one man thinking he is another.
Mrs. Grump—What’s odd aboug
Si Warren, who was accounted the
Si scratched his heac a minute, that? Women are doing that all the
then announced decisively: time,—BEx,
* “I'l be durned df i'll work for | :T =. uw
A CASE FOR COURT MARTIAL.
Recruit (nervously)__Shail I mark
| time with my feet, sir?
The widow of a German officer Lieutenant (sarcastically) —My
presented herself at the office for the | dear fellow, did you ever hear of
purpose of drawing the pension due | | marking time with the hands?
to her. She handed in the necessary | Recruit—VYes, sir; clocks do it.—
certificate from t 4 mayor of the | ! Bx. LST
town in which she 1i i d, to the effect! Mrs. Smith—I want a cheap mouse
that she was still alive. | trap, please, and hurry up; I want
“This certificate i8 mot correct,” |to catch a train.
said the official in charge. | Shopkeeper—My mouse traps are
“What's the mater | not guaranteed to catch trains, ma-
asked the lady. $ dam.—Ex.
“1; bears the date "October 21st,” yw =»
was the stern reply, and your pen- {HE OTHER HEAVEN,
sion was due on October 15th.” | “Do you know where ithe little
‘Well, what kin 41 a certificate | hoys go who don’t put their Sunday
isappointed school money dn the plate?”
| apolicant. 2 . “Yes’m-—to the movies.”’—BEX.
“We must have a gertificate stat-| *» = a
VACUUM THEOLOGY
that!”—ExX.
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HARD TO CONVINCE.
with it?”
bed October,” said the official, with |
| ereat firmness. —Everybody’s.
! * * -
A colored Baptist was exhorting.
‘““Now breddren and sistern, come up
to de ner an’ hab yo’ sins washed
thorities, and to carry on the organ- | found guilty and sentenced to five
ization work and build up the mem- | years imprisonment for alleged se-
bership of the party. | ditious utterances in a speech at
Fund Biggest Ever Sought. | Bow man, North Dakota, last summer.
This is the biggest fund that the | Mrg. O'Hare was formerly a mem-
National Socialist Party has ever at lier of the mational executive com-
tempted to raise. = That (% is within mittee and also international secre-
the realm of things possible is shown |tary. She is one of the most power-
by the fact that $60,00 was raised | ful women speakers fin the party.
during the recent Hillguit mayoralty | Fight South Dakota Case.
campaign in New York City, this | It was decided to put up a stren-
money ‘being contributed by Sodial- luous fight in behalf of William J.
ists in every part of the country. This | Head, Mitchell, South Dakota, sen-
was after New York Socialists had | tenced to three years in the federal
contributed $50,000 to help finance | prison ay lL.eavenworth, Kansas, for
The Call, the New York Socialist | circulating a a petition to congress ask-
daily, and $75;000 to purchase a ing for the repeal of the constitution
home for the ‘Rand School of Social | Taw and expressing the opinion that
Science, not to mention several other | the law ‘was unconstitutional and
projecis that called for the ralising could not be enforced.
of considerable sums of money. Plans to secure justice in this case
If these sums can be raised in one | | were left in the hands of Adolph
city it is certain that the national or-| Germer, party national secretary, and
ganization can raise a much larger | Seymour Stedman, the party’s coum-
sum to take advantage of the great- | sel.
st opportunities that ever confront- |
od the Socialist Party of America, - resent the committee. in behalf of the
Make Wilson Financial Director. | four Socialists at Albany, N. X., con-
Oliver C. Wilson, state secretary of victad Wrdistributin
Illinois, was elected financial director | Fars,
i the “Million Dollar Fund, Af with | Ald Women's -
advisory committee ‘consisting of | The sum of $150.00 was voted to
i ional Secretary Adolph Germer, J. carry on special organization work
Louis Engdahl, Otto F. Branstetter.jamong women in California.
Robery H. Howe and Seymour Sted-| It was also decided to send. Ella
man. They will carry on their work ! Reeve Bloor into New York State
HIS APOLOGY. away. under the general direction of the | where the women have just been en-
The young son of the family, who All came but one. Naticnal Executive Committee. | franchised, where she will conduct an
| had been out to uncheon at a little “Why Brudder Jones, don’t you All of the National Fxeeutive Com- | | organization. campaign of at least 60
| friend’s house, was ‘asked by his! want ye’ sins washed away?” miitee members were present at the | days.
[niother on his return whether he had “lI done had my sins washed | meeting tha; considered and took | Anna A. Maley was appointed to
| been a good boy. He hesitated a away.” this action. They -were Morris Hill- arrange for field work among WiIo-
| moment, then answered, ‘‘Yes.” “Yo’ has! Where yo’ had yo’ sins | quit, New York City; Victor L. Ber-| men in co-operation wlih National
washed away?”
“Ober at de Methodish church.”
“You don’t seem to be very sure
[about the matter.” said his mother.
fee What did you do?”
| “Oh, I just spilled my chop in my
{ lax p,” he replied.
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washed,
“Did you apologize to Mrs. lic
Brown?” !
“Yes,” he nodded.
“Tell mother what you said when
vou apologized.”
among women who are being install-
at & cost of $12
houce.
suitable.
,060,000 for a cour
{ claim The site is now declared umn
| cured.
men janitors cannot be. se-
“Ah, Brudder Jones, yo’ ain’y been
yo’ just been dry cleaned.”
Ex.
The society women, in an effort to
| make both ends meet, are using less
cloth at the top and at the bottom of
their dresses. Along with many other
modern tenementg on land purchased
Secretary Germer.
Take Qver Young People’s Magazine.
Plans were made for a conference
(with Meyer London, the lone Social-
in his report to the committee, | ist congressman, at the mext meeting
National Secretary Germer urged |of the committee.
that states where the membership is | Seymour - Stedman will confer with
small be grouped in district able to | London on proposed legislation dur-
maintain a secretary to devote all of | the present session of congress.
his time to party work. This recom-| The Young People's Department fm
meudation was approved and a rea-! the pational office was authorized to
ger, Milwaukee, Wis.; Seymour Sted- |
man and John Work, Chicago; and |!
Anna A. Maley, Minneapolis, Minn,
Group Weak States in Districts.
i “Oh,” came ihe quick response, things this dispays their patriotism.
become that the funda- water power—for the reason that the | re farmers; at least one-third arc Yo 1 : is | ey Dah Tee ; [pe } 1th
& of : ‘1 sai id, Excuse me, but that’s what —York Labor News. [sonable amount voted to help esta-|take over the Young Socialist Maga-
rests of Voll gfe one, and man whe contmls. DOWS GORUDL Iwasowarers. Onethind and one- | # GN Ln SS blish district offices |zine, mow published in New York
wha is to your ad- everything else. Mechanical power is | (hj ake two-thirds of soble Sl : 35 oo WE Tr : . : Tet olices, {ailio, a s ’
f run whag ig to ¥ a oryl Wing ChaliEni b third make two-thirds of the people San Francisco Janitors’ Union has {rade unionists in New York city it was decided to ask Tents Mea i
also to the advantage of the key to modern civilization and |or the United States. Banded to- | ‘od ut it .
4 + + . a starte al 4 z ampaig ask nicipe ai ities i
(hat you get much bene- nations are judged in the scale Of | gether is there any power mudd: | ed gn organizing campaign ask municipal authorities to build
WOMEN WORK LONG HOURS
Don’t Neglect Children in
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TO DROP. | wor ld have been ley within recent
days to 14 of the great packing howu-
—The increas- | | ses of the United States. These large
ing necessity for maintaining stand- | orders have necessitated night work
ards of child welfare during wartime |,
was ‘pointed out today by the chil- |
dren’s bureau in a New Year’s warn- | lL
Washington, Jan. 1.
as well as the increased employment
of woman labor.
Miss Mary MacDowell, director of
ing, calling the aitention of American | the university settlement work at the
citizens to the disastrous effects of | Chicago stockyards, also chairman of
exemptions from child labor regula-| the committee on foreign-born wo-
tions in foreign countries. jaen of the advisory commission of
“Foreign experience: shows that | [the Council of -National Defense,
countries which have permitted spec- | found on investigation that many
i al exemptions from child labor women were accepting employment
fs ards’? he data 5 3 Is efi g i
standards, the statement in the packing houses for night work
“have almost with one accord re-|after their day woof labor at home,
gretted them as both injurious to the with the consequence that seme of
children and inefficient as regards in-! them obtained one hour of sleep in
{ dustrial results. The immediate pen- | the 24. Af a result of her efforts to
{alty has been a swelling stream of correct this situation the packers
| child offenders pouring thru the have promised not to employ women
| courts. i withs children under 6 years of age
“Protection of babies and jpittle | for night work,
children and of their mothers—a first |
| essential in wartime to replace the million working women
i waste of hu man life 1 - | 1 Tri .
£ pu L lito on the battle-| ip shout the United States are
demands local provision for J s 3
asking that they be paid the same
rsing and medical care
rotection not being : 15. | wages as men ‘for equal work.
burden rests with
a dollar
s pious capitalist takes
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