TORONTO LABOR
COUNCIL FOR
Practically All Offices Cap
tured by Men Who Are
Opposed to American Fed
eration of Labor.
(Special (orrespondence.)
Toronto, Canada-- Striking vi(-:
to(l'its cntlinell It)o add to the sweiep
which advocates of '()One Big C:nion"o
arle making in .every section oft
('an'a ia.
Toronto T['ratldes and Labor con-ll
cil. lne of the last large centlral ttlabor
bodies to mnove. adopted a I 'ogles
sive ptrogramet when it. e]Pceted offic.rs
opposled to tihe Thomas Moore,
captit al-tahbor'' plt oglre aI of he
Dolminionll T'rades and Lai bor coln
gross.
Following theo hittrelest (catpaigt
in the history of tihe labor inovetlent,
p)rac!icalty atll the (fficers. front tlih
prl'sidency dowtin, wenl to mcen who
favor iindSIrlial lnionism'll and whot
opplose tle Amer!'ican IFederation (of
Labor' c'rat Iuninism.
iMore thian 30 tl delegaies, repre-i
s lntinlg Itr(io than °11.()00 trade!
unionists, voted it, the lelectihons aind
selected Johlln lMunrolll'. president of
t le Provinciial Count il of Mtlachin
ists, as their p]resident.
THe drefated Arthullr F. O'Leary,
w'ho alln for ret-elecition. hy 171 ito
1414 votes.
A. \W. Mlance def'eated V. ,IJ.
H-veyej secretary. for that positionl,
while tJatnes Raliph. financial secre
tllr'y. wenl dlownl to dtefeat for re
election, Johnll ('cltam ldoing thei
trick. Her.ehrt Lewis. editor of the
Ontario Labor News, organ of the
Metal Trades .ottonicil and advocate
of the "One Big 1'nion,"' and Jamnes
Sitmpson, editor orf the 'Torontto In
dustrial Ianner, reform socialist,
were chosen to represent the 'Toronto
and District Trades and Labor coun
cil at the Domninion Trades and lahbor
congress conveltion. to be held in
Hamilton in September.
The victors ates colmpiosied of two
foirces. One favors organization in
"'One Big Union' and ourt-and-oull
olppiosition to the American Federa
tion of Labor officials. while the!
other favors refolrmation from with-i
in. The defeated mlovement is nlearterl
to Samuel Co(tmperis and his poliei s,
althoughI it is a little mloti' adtvanced
than the machine controlling th:%
.tmericann fedeoration.
Lewis. Altinro and iother macllhiln
ists favor general strike methods andi
have supportted thie Winnipeg sltrik
ers and otlhtr progr.essi;,e laborites.
The victory is s!gnificant in that
'di'v. ard hir largest English-ispeak- !t
in-g ,ernt.'. has mltih ilnfitlltece overl
t -r .etion t- o f O t tario- -consid
- r-.-i rtes! ba,.kward of all ('anadian
r'l inc-'s toward'),r pr t',gi'sive ideas
nti "? :i ,' In- thtq larges- t hrol vinc, e. i
"i. w -k viero , will have' itsi
`-_..,Ir ''I i tt til I ito gla t t tqt of
Hit i. \'n:ll t attd ' hr er Onl'alrii c ies.
di wilt ato il atuea tihat this fight in
grai s wi lls t ie n Ft t' it-r.
lDuring tit- lie the tWinnipeg!
decided to go ahead with their' fight
againtst the American Felderation of
Labor. Both indorsed the Calgary
('convlltion. favored thie One Big
I liotl alnd stcession from(l tihe Amteri
can t'tlFederation of .alabir.
Thie struggle is growing more in
tense, several international presi
dents of raftl uni1ons colinig into
Canada to 'scath.'' by aiditlg em
ployelrs in lheir attacks on the One'i
Big i'nion.
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ers-wheri e there is al
ways found a high stand
ard of service- always de
endal get for ad roave mptness
efficiency and courtesy.
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PAv V.YTT SAW IT IN BUILLETIN
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Rear First National Bank.
SOLDIER SEES EUROPE
GOING BOLSHEVIKI
Every National Will Go on
Fighting Every Other
Until People Rise and
SEnd It.
Washington. July 29.---Wlar de
ploartmlent bureaucrats and our junker
caste generally received a severe
shocik this week when they turnied,
with the dread which its appearance
;I lways creates in conservative circles,
to the issue of "Soldier'c-Sailors-lla
:'ines." and read a letter printed there
ifro'i an ,cAmericanl soldier sationed
ill central Europe.
iAfter describing the spread of so
tviO 'llltitllent throughout Europe,
the soldier concuiides with a collpli
nlent to tile United States. with tihe
rese rvation tlhat sevenL in A'merica
S"tic-ie are certaii things that call he
uinprloved ilcupon --amonicg thelm, the I
dallllled alcc.iy andtl lhi ctaste system."
The letter follows:
('zecho-Sloiv kii, June iS. 1919.
Dear -
Tllce above letterhead will tell
where I am adl what I am do
ing io siclim extenct. I amic not
with this outfit b)cause I amn
crazy about relief work. but it
offered ii good opportunity to
stay clcar of tihe army iuntil so
ituchl of it got back hocne that
they wollidc l'i need tie aniy tloire
whenl I aint released from this
work. which will he ill about a
month.
I have been traveling ever
since May 1. First we visited
Venice, Trieste, Viecnnac. Prague,
Agram lc. Belgrade and Ifiume.i.
Since then we have visited
Venice. Trieste. Prague and
Vienina again. anid ihave also
imadle o trilps to Warsaw and
one to Berlin. Next week we
are goicng to Vicienna. Agracm and
elegrad.
T'lheir Agore alternatives.
i note that the League of Na
tioins is worrying a lot of people
inc Washington. It doesn't worry
m1e much hecause it doesn't
amiount to aniything. I knlow it
Won't worl;. I have traveled
enoulgh acrOllund ill cellntral Eurlope)
to kncow that all of these people
hate each other. and they will
continueI to fighit until one of
two ithings happens. i. e.. ultil
tccie natioin conqulers thiem all
andcl formllls a ce1 ntral Europeani
emlpire, like Gerccmany tried to
Iform, or lliti] hie wor'kiingmen
of all these natioins rise uip aind
overthrow tihe goverinment'llll acind
refuse to fight each other.
A Real State of War.
At the present time the Poles are
at war with the I'kranianis: they are
mobilized against the Germans. anld
there is a sort of truc'e between themlt
altnd the ('zecihs. They are also at
war with the Hultngarians. The
Czechs have a truce with the Poles;
they are at war with Ithe Hungarians,
aid they at'" willing Lto go to war any
intttea with the Austrians. The AIus
tlria5 ;S are helpless, bltt, if they had
the strengtlt, they would again take
tip itheir quarrl'el with thle Italians,
and would also fight the Czechs. If
tlich Serbianis and thlie .Jugo-Slavs had
lthe glns antid aithl nition, they wouild
dclalle war agl.nst Italy tomorrow.
As it is they are fighting the iHuin
gaitsii!s and have a dispute on with
ithe ulttmaiiast. The. Itulanians are
at wtar with the litingarians. and, as
I said before, they ar'e at loggerheads
with tihe Serbs. The Hunlgarians are
fighting Ion all I'ronts. and they are
certainly tplayinlg hell with the
('Celts.
.\ Iholsluvikli I)iversion.
It seettms that the dulan holsheeviks
il the tllungatriatln arimy spread prtopa
ganda amtolnig lith( Czech soldiers to
It~t effect th!at th y are all brothers;
that litheir officers are gettillg fine
salaries, good clothes, plenlty of eats
atnd a good place to sleep, and all Ithe
glory of the watlr, while the pioor sol
dier' has to do all the diirty work aitnd
the fighting. This has caused whole
regimenlts to go Iover to the bolshe
viks without firing a shot and most
of Slovakia has Ibee.t lost by tihe
C'zechls.
Added to this is the holshlvikl
agitation inl ('zectlo-Slovakia anld the
fact that Austria miay go tholshevik
and join Hungary any day. The
wholte of IEurope is in a similar tur
moil. i don'i know where it will all
entld.
All Going iolsheviki.
It is my firml belief that unllless
lest, established Europealn goverln
meats follow tile lead of Wilson and
hold a parley with Trotsky and l.e
nite. andl cancel that Russian war
loun ielild iby France. the whole of
Europe will go inlo the hands of the
bolsheviks. Their armies are hold
ing back all of thie invaders and de
livering a few good licks thetmselves.
They believe they are fighting for
a holy cause and they fear nIOthing.
I have read a few of Williamlt Allen
W\'iite's tarticles in regarud to thol
slhevist and agree with them fully.
Thinking and Doing.
urrverywhre you go--- firo Ietgrade
to Warsaw. the labloring mani is talk
ing colmllmunislll and bolshevism, anid
what a contiient ttillks and talks of
it very shortly does.
\\'lien I get back to New York I
shall certainly look ytou up. 'T'th
("lli.etd States was a l'pretty good place
when I left it, and I want to find it
in as giootl conditioll when [ retullrn.
Of coiurse, there aire certain things
that cain be ittlproveld upon- -amolllngll
Ithemi the datmni ariy and the caste
systemlll.
Your friend,
Debs' Daily Message
it takes sonmething mnore thIan atn
sindt-'talndtin of socialism to blie a
socialist. It takes courage. integrity,
latrellce and the inldoitable will
that defies discouragement and de
feat. It takes. mort over, the spirit
of socialism. the spirit that is kind in
bearing, elevated in outiook, above
thlle mean and groveling concerns of
the selfish and ignoble, and with the
ptassion to serve to ma:lke a real so
rialist."
The successful ones are buying
Thrift and War Savings stamps.
IRISH LEADER SPEAKS
(Continued From Page One.)
are the fighters of the world when
fighting has )been done: you know
that being the mlajovri, in the
world you have the greatestr power
in the world if you are organized
to wield it.
'And ~nowing all tliesl things, it
will be impossible tii t in the future
you do not orgatize anI d calit lryou
do not wield r1110 ower wh.Uh you
know you pssr.ss. - There f(e:re,. I[
ithink yor will r'rderstalnd Inat I atrm
not trying i 1.0 fc i er ii ti . i ilt that I
Ilrl I,Fr·ng a. faitS as they are,
wiren I say tc :1 I bi'liwee that the
fulilr ' is with i,'' nlld b 'il me tr he
fuillmi is ihi :ab "r ;lie N rIt e is
safe. Ireland's 1;. te rs i-' when
labor t nime. into pOWI.
in knor, \ Wtha'! Wa' i , ityOU
Ihraxi had ex p'ieri r:f war, and
h' dabecaso you h ave hail( 'i;ltience of
it, and the exprerience n n have had
is ibut a small part of the experience
that lhe delliocracies of Euriop. Ihave
had,. becauiit. you iinoW y ou dio ol
wintl War; you Wanl 1o dl it. Youi
linw that it is niio the diplomas.
siiare in thleir ahin ets, who design
war. nor t le financial Imagnates that
riOei nre walr, who have tor suffer
when war is being waged. It is not
the-y who have to suiffer the weary
days in lthe trenches; i is not they
who have to sipend the nights frozen
on the battle fields; it is not. their
wives. sisters nld imnotihers who have
tO spend thie anxiolr, momenelts, wait
ing hour by hour, perlhapIs for news
of the death of someicone that. they
loved. It is not these whose widows
a i.tl orphia s have to look for'ward
to a futore dependenlt upon uponn
charity; they are secure in their
ihomes. anid ito them war is, perhaps.
a grand poiem, a grand epic; they
do niot know thie realities of war, and
lhey have always the thought whilst
war is being waged that their divi
donds ale swelling: or if they are
diplomats, that their fame is in
creasing. You know what you siuf
for afterwards. because you know
that wari is an ecoiionmic loss; you
know that the production has to be
mIiade tli for later, andt you know
lthatI for thai production you will
be the sufferers. It is you who will
have to produce what is lost. and
therefore it is on you that the real
loss of war falls.
"I remember once reading in the
London Daily Mail --I do not know
whether the man was drunk or what
when he wrote it ---but it is very rare
to find an organ like that of Lord
Northcliffe's having in its pages an
editorial in wltcih it was said why
should we desire that the war should
stop? Are not the farmers better
paid? They are getting higher
prices for their products; are the
laborers not better off? They are
getting higher wages for their daily
labor. and so ont, a numbetr of
things to prove that they did not
desire the war to stop. Yes. rni)
friends, that was all very fine for
those who. were quietly and secure
ly at home in England, for whom it
was written; they forgot thie men
who were fighting out in the fields,
for whom every Ilour meant deathl,
and they forgot tile wives and sis
"" of(i t'hogs" nt honme who would be
left dependent afterwards when
t.Hse menI were killed, Well, you
are not of that class. You realize
what war means and you want it
to stop, and in wanting thic war to
st.op you have sense enough to think
it worth while to try to lay the
loundation for the time when wars
will nol tie waged. or at least to do
your best to prevent the possibility
of futurre wars. Now, wishing to
sttop war, and wishing to find a
meants for stopping it, you look
about for some principles whiich will
prevent war, and 1hese principles
were clearly seen whilst tlhe war was
being waged. One of these princi
pies was that nationns should be al
lowed t re i ule themselves; that no
nation should be sulbject to the ex
ploitation of anot her nation; that in
other words the principle of self-de
termiination should be accepted, and
by accepting that and llaking, st) to
speak, tile stale andlll th nation, the
nation and the stale of the same
boundtaries co-terrninius, ite was ac
cepted; that principle was put for
wcri ard d was realized to ble one
which would at least prevent olne otc
casion of war.
"The occasion of wars in the past,
anld there will be occasion of war in
the funture- --one oif themnl wts this.
lthat a nltion on whicih was nield in
sulbjectitll by another nation, was
always seeking for all opporiuniity to
free itself. ''hat is ai natural law;
men were Inot intended to bet slaves
anlld because they were not intended
in be slaves, in their hearts they
have the desire of liberty, and that
desire will always. working in anl
orderly, natural fa:shion. Iiake lmen
be ready to give up their lives to free
themiselves fron thlat slavery, will
tmake thaet prefer death to slavery.
and whern you have that spirit in a
people. us you will always find in a
nation thatl is being ruled and ex
ploited by an other, then you have a
direct occasion of war; it will be
war in the forll of direct rebellion,
burt there is another wider spirit
whiclh is an occasion of war: you
have nations, neighboring powerful
states have always their . eyes oni
surch a state, sach a nation that is inl
revolt, seethling within, hecause they
iolipe to risr thrat nation as a lreans
of knocikllg dowtn arnothier rival.
Thlat was, for instance, one of the!
reasons why England took atlvan
rage of tits' spirit of rebellion among
the Jugo Slavs and the C'zesclho-Slavs
and thie Po'les to destroy iher comin
rnercial rivatl, Germanry. \We now
know peret'cily well thlat it was not
from a ny high miotives that Enulaud
went iinto the war tile proof of that i
was thile secrett reaty--b--ut it was
not necessary for nrs to wait until
ith secret P realty was produced, be
ncuse sucht has been the history of
all enlpireis, and particularly the his
inry of Englanlld.
".tust as England and the other
lnations imade use of tile spirit )of re
volt ill the Austrian and Gerrman eim
pires in order to break ip the (Ger
latan and Au lstrian empires, so too in
all cases will one state that wishes
to crush a rival state take advan
tage of a spirit of revolt. anid tie di
Gagnon Dining Room
Thursday Morning, July
31, 1919 I
SAY YOU SAW IT IN BUL.LE''TIN
ploniats and rulers at the head of
these states will always be intrigu
ing in order to use the natural re
volt of that state in order to break
down its rival, and war will In the
means which will be employed.
"Therefore you see that if the
principle of self-deterimninatinl is not
applied you are bound to ha:e, war,
and when we are seeking to Itave
this principle applied in Ilre!ntd we
are really applying the te--t Iluestion
of the world today, and on the de
cision will depend whe l::e,' tche
world will be throwin t'ack. or
whether you are going to ha.e that
for which you went out into the
war to fight. America went into
the war professedly to secure lihpr
ty everywhere, anti to sc-ellne a last
ing peace. The world has bieen dis
alppointed with tile results of the
Paris conferen.le. Now. there was
not much reason why 11b,' world
should he disappointed. blecteus the
world. by going back and studyilng
the history of previous collnfeencl'es
might well have anlicipated what
won:tld have happened. The col
gress of of Vienna. we all knew
about it: we knew thalt they had
provisions. too. and this plesceit idea
of a league of nations whicibh would
guarantee peace.
"Peace will never be gotten by a
covenant mnade when diplomats tit
arounlld a table; peace will only beh
gotten when the peoples of the world
make up their minids thal they are
going to have peace. Nothing was
to be expected ftrom Paris. but a
great deal can be expected from this
nation of America. and even thougih
the Irish question did not really ex
ist, I mnean if the Irish tn.estion were
not pending, and if Irishmen did not
bring it forward. it would be to to the
interest of the world at large to
bring forward the Irish question as
a test question today.
"in America there is a hope -
America, the people of America,
have no new principles in the prin
ciple of self-determination; the idea
iof governmenit by the consent of the
governed is that on which your own
constil ution was founded; it lhas
lbeei the basis of yotur policy at home
and it has been the basis of your
practice abroad wit. other nations.
It is not a new principle with you.
ITherefore, when you atre asked to
decide on a question on which that
principle is involved, 1 cannot see
.how you will decide it except in one
way, and the sympathy which has
been shown to us wjith oul'r cause
andt the action of the representative
bodies in this country make it clear
to tme that America is going to de
tide this question in a way which
will mean peace for the world.
"Yout see what tile question
meions? In Ireland we have fill
filled to the letter everything t.ha
is needed ini order to show what the
will of the Irish people is. You
could not if you were to search out
the whole world get a better case tc
put forward under this principle of
self-determina.tion than the Irish
case, and if the American people
we'e to turn away frolm their ptrin
ciples and reject us and retuse tI
recognize the republic set up by the
Irish people, it would mean not
merely that you had abandoned your
plinciples, but it would mean that
the world mean if you dectide aright.,
the whole peace conferenlce can bE
opened up again. It can be easily
epened tp, if you lead the way. ii
the Amerlican nation, the Amlerican.
lipople and tihe Amllerican govern
ment lead the way, there isn't a
single government in Europe which
will stand against it. That question
if you make it a world issue, wil
Ie decided by the democracies of
iEurope, and they will decide, not itn
the- line that the dipllomats would
like, but in the way that the peopll
would like, and that way is a way
which will. not mert'ely give liberty
to Ireland. it will give freedom tr
everybody.
"'We in Ireland are in favor of
league of nations, and we are ready
to take uip all the hlurd'ns that that
tleans for us. \'We believe ill n
league of nations in which the na
tions will recognize that their inter
ests are interwoven, that they art
interdependent, so to speak; that the
interests, the greatest freedom of at
will be served by obeying a comlnlol
law. We are ready for all that, but
we are certainly against a 'covenant
which, far front providing for the
triumph of justice, provides the tri
utuph of aggression and provides no
for future pemae, but provides for a
certainty of future war. We art
against the present covenant on that
acconnt. anti we arl'e here to ask tlha
our nation be not discriminatted
against anld e not put inl a positior
in whichl it will be harder for het
to secure her freedom in the futurt
than it has been in the past; and
we aisk you. the Alllerican people a,
any rate, not to sign at bond that wil
guaranty your aid to the power ltha
is oppressing us. We are perfectly
certain that wa will have that.
"But 1 prefelr to dwell all the tiny
on the bigger aspect of the questiol
rdther thita which contcerns our
selies. I hbae spoken then to yot
and I hope that the few ideas tha
I have gi\ent expression to will fin,
answering ideas in your owtn mind
anld that thilking over this you wit
.iee for youtrseltves that 0o1l the de
cision of the Irish question depend
whether yovu are really going tI
achieve that which you went iltt
the \War tor or nlot.
"Nu\\, diphtlonuats were in powe
because the peoples did not insis
that tlit rulet's and the diplomat
should do what the people valltet
them to do.
"It. I jus r turned to a side issut
but. ole tl:at maII y be of interest It
you, I mtigit speakI for a moment 0:
the :Ittituide of English labor towart
ireland. I have been xwatching Eng
lii:h labor <artefully. and lEnglish lti
bor which will wanlt freedotin velry
where is only willing up to t:',' pres
ent at iany tate. to give freetdoml t
ltrland wilhit her prison wall.
English ltabor says we may have out
fltl'doiti but it must be within (lt
British empliret. I say that is e.
acily like telling tie that 1 may b
'ree piro\ided I remain within tlh
prison wails. Now. English labo
iIusit imake ulp its mind to deal a
strictly with itself as it will doie:
with othler., and if it is going t
rcally be in this world movtnulent i
must accept the principles put for
ward at llernt',. which are the s.ta
plin :lt' les :hat I have ml, altione,
iere, the n;nii principles that Pleat
dent \Cibsoti put forward ill tile aill
the 'ant. I'rinciple that I believe you
stand;ll fol: itust t accept tlthese an
it must bi ready to do justice to it
setlf and pay the price of fututi
peace jur: the saime as Germant
BAIIS WANTED
WITHOUT FAIL FOR THE
MEN WHO ARE IN
Ilunhdreds of \workers are literally rotting in the juils of Lhis coulnt r
because of Lthir activity in the cause of Labor. lan\' of teIIse \'ietihns
ofI' the world-wide class war are awating trial---atd i ave been waiti
Iour miainy weary tmonitlhs for the speedy trial guaranteed tllm by the
niledi Sates (Costitution. Others were itied and sentencede to t ermi s
ranging' froml one to wenty years during Ihe period of war hysteria.
an-d ppeals ill their cases are inow being taken from Kingll' (ajilaL drlllnk
to King Capital sober.
Some of the prisoners have esccaped by death, olhers tare dying, IImany
have ronilneted tuberculo sis and other loathLsoume diseases, aitd aill are
siutl'ering untold. agoray from close coni'inoienent in the fetid atuosplhere.
Ifrom insanitary and unhealthy sirrroiiuliings, from poor and insutl'ficiernt
fl',od, and friom irnilrltnu treatlmelnt a.ccorded Ilicthem by brutlized guards.
Past Altlenjlls to secure bai ll lo all of these workers in jail have not
Ibeen tlleiidedt with grlceatl success heeanise of the lack of systern. It
nli\ itlalu souttght to setenlle hail f1' their person)l l frlielnds. and faililg t
eel the necessary anmouinl they retiireii what had be en collee( Id, thns
makinig their entire efforts fruilless. This was the conditioni facing tlhe
delegates I'rotn all tle westetrni district organization: s of the Indntisrialu
\VWorkers of the \\',rld when they met in conllf'elence oii on uly 3 and il in
Seatile. The delegnl eLs solved the problem by anll unI'ailing meani.-
.\ lIail and UBond (omnitl tee was elected to sysernal.ize the work of
u.,llcliii g tail and a nation-(vil e drive bh s been startted to secure the
loan of cash. Liberty lhiundl and property soulficieut to gain the release
,t all class \war prisones. Wilh practically no advertising Six' TIh)
sattd Iiollu.rs were raised in the first five days. More than Two Hun
dred Thollsand Iolliars are uneeded Ili release those now being hield 'or
their Labor activity.
Siuns of iive l)olla.rs and lp are accepted as loans, and all cash, Lib
erty Bondis or prorper ly is tabulated in triplicate. onle copy going to the
lersoni iakii I'he l i. alillt er , no eing r etained by the Bai anl Ion loni
;,onnitn ittee. andl the thi'rdl being filed with the T'rades Utnion Savitngin s
ant Lo.,in Association ial ' Seattle. with whom all fun.ds, hli.uds and prlop
eit'v sctledu-les wi\\ll Ie banked.
iinly tIhose ho hiave bLheei lprved loyal aii Ii' trustwortlhy are being
sent oiunt is colleItors. Everything possible has beenr dolne to safeguard
this hail and hoold tfutl, jfro thie selection of' lithe omn ittee to the
c~lhoice ilt' lie ahunk. \ ip tiiton i tlte fuind is being set aside to retrlll
ltans on demandl in case persons who have rmade them are forced to
lu-ave the (IouIt1r iii ha\ve otiel' reasons I'o' llolaking a wilithdnlawal.
Ilail will ie used ii release specified personi s o wnherel that is dlesiretl,
iilt nltherw\ise ihe release will take place bty i blind dirawing iof names.
Iliis ins rinei ' fairness to all i risoiers. BIiy o mnini ,isen it the men
in WVichiht , Kansas ,j.iltwill firs bhe releasedl, as they have beetl held
Ihe longest and jail coiinlitioiis are worse there thaliii ainiywhliere else in
the entire eoulti'V. This hail in s nearly all been siubscribeid. IIII tlllie
menl will he iide' iieei'(rilited collectors wvieli release(d, and their speeldy
release will helpl It setl others at liberly.
No iei-cessily exists I'on' argumient. Your dity is clear. Ift' yoiur eors
iire riot leat to a ceall fro vilne clLiass. if' yoni feel that anll injuri'y to one
is anl ii ',ry toL all. if there horlns withini you the fainilest ispark of humatl n
ily , vii will see that thlie mien do no t remain behi l i ho b i's n uniii
iincessiVry riiille biecause you wilhheld your suippoirt.
THEY ARE WILLING TO GIVE THEIR LIVES FOR YOU!
ARE YOU WILLING TO LOAN YOUR DOLLARS TO THEM?
Send all cash, checks and bonds to John L. Engdahl, Secretary of Bail
and Bond Committee, Box W, Ballard Station, Seattle.
Property schedules should be filed with Attorney Ralph S. Pierce,
Room 607 Central Building, Seattle.
Butte Office, 318 N. Wyoming St. J. E. Williams, Bond and Bail
delegate.
niust he willing to pay, or Austria.
7r any other nation.
"Now. if British labor looked a
:itlle bit closer on the question they
vouldi see Iheir interest is very
losely involved in this question ot
Ireland. I will just give you a pic
ure. English troops are being en
;agedt in Egypt and in India--in
'gypt they were using the lash to
'ompel the native Egyptian to work
"or thnm; they are being trained in
-Egypt as slave masters and slave
trivers. Let us come now to the
case of Ireland. lu Irelacnd the
British troops and the Scottish
troops are being trained to do what?
Chey are there receiving training so
as to be able to deal with the
:ivilian population. They are dis
ributed in towns whilst the men
ire at work, they are getting train
og in putting cordons around cecr
ain areas and controlling these
.reas so that the people cannot move
land or foot that they don't know
aind that they cannot control. What
is going to happen? The English
wvorkinen will find in a very short
ille when he wants frcedomn hintm
elf, that these troops so beautifully
rained in Egypt and in Ireland will
e used against himself.
"I represent not labor. not any
lass in the Irish community, I
represent the whole of Ireland. IBut
ccc, as workers, will be interested
n knowing whal the '-attitude of
I.rish labor is toward us. You call
vest see that attitude by considering
that they did at the recent elec
.ions. Irish labor has been always
cae most patriotic class in Ireland,.
ndt at the recent elections, though
.abor was naturally anxious to se
2are political power for itself, and I
lid secure political party for itself
labor.ina order to cnakel it clear to
ih,' world what the desire of the ,
'rish people was, refrained fronm
iutting up any candidates at the
lection. in order that those who
:ood for republicanisn nmight win
,I the election. If our replublic-i;
'ere reicognized as \well as estab-'
ilshedt in thcse elections, labor would
cave its own party and would prob-,1
ily have a nmajority in that parlia
cient. but they chose to fight for1
ationalismi because the idea. the
test idea to mny mind of interna
ionalisun is that the nations of the
,vorld should be bound tdgetheb
'ach nation preserving its ow n chaif='
ieteristics just as I belie\e the best
ocial systeml is one in which the
adnliidual is as freei at possible. 1
'Now, I saw it stated I think. t
y a correspondentl, a labor wrliter
'ina the rebeIllion in Irelani d was n (
social rebellion. Well. now, I don't
cniow exactly what he meant to say,
but the truth is that that rebellion
in Ireland and that fight in Ireland
was the same fight that. was fought
in '98. by Emmet afterwards in
1803, by the men of '48, and by
the men of '67-----it was the samte na
tional fight. Why was it then that
you had men like James Connelly
in it, who was associated more with
socialism and with the workers than
with Irish nationalism:. For this
reason: Connelly----and I know be
cause he mentioned it to me-recog
nized that in a free Ireland the
workers of Ireland would have a
better chance of freedom and of
free development and of the good
things which are necessal y and
which could be got in Ireland if Ire
land was free and independent than
she could possibly have if she were
tied onto the charity of the British
empire. And he saw that by being
a nationalist first he was no less a
good socialist, and therefore he
fought in that fight and that fight
was fought on national issues andi
not on economic issues. Now, the
satme principle was followed by the
workers in the election, and these
salle workers woent over to Blerne.--:
where we could not go, and repre
seuted the Irish nation at the Berne
conference, and there got recogni
tion for Ireland in the workers' con
eorente--got recognition for Ireland
as a separate and independent na
tion.
"'Therefore, in this struggle for'
recognition, and our struggle in Ire
land to found a republic, we have
behind us the workers of the whole
of Ireland; the more advanced as
well as the more conservative, it
there is such a thing at all or i;
I these terms really properly apply.
"Now, asking the workers here in
America then to support our cause,
I feel that I ant asking something
of you which you will only be too
willing to give, and if we get the
support of the workers of America
we will get the support of the
American nation. So far as I have
been able to make out, the whole
of America is with us. I found no-i
where any evidence of hostility on
the part of the American people-.
an odd paper here and there will
put, 'So-called Irish republic.' and I
will bet anything that these papers
were the veir- papers that spoke the1
most about -self-determination dur
iji'g the war: They have put 'so
called Irish republic.' and they will
put "president-' in inverted commas,
just the same as if it is not evidenti
that the Irish people have chosen
their chief representative by their
voles. Therefore, whether they are
conscious of it or not. they are act
ing directly 'against their principles
when they try in auy manner to dis
credit the work which has been done
I by the Irish nation and the republic
t that the Irish nation has set up, and
i that is that the Irish nation have
chosen to direct for the moment- -
to direct their affairs and to he re
I sponsible to the Irish people for
their affairs.
MANHATTAN
BAKERY
The Finest in Butte
MAX VITT, Proprietor.
Two Stores
205 W. Park-135 8. Main
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16 oz 10l0c
make a ED'S make a
pound dollar
MARKET
500 East Park Street
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You Will Find Excellent Service.
High Quality Food, Low Prices
at the
Leland Cafe
72 E. Park.
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Ladies' and Gents' Suits Made to
Order Here in the Shop.
W. OERTEL
TAILOR.
Journeyman Tailor. Union Shop.
481%. S. Arizona. Phone .552-W.
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Save carfare ahd patronize the
store near your home, all grocer
ies as cheap as uptown stores
i Maid O' Clover Butter 60c
Shaw's Cash Grocery
Cor. Meade and Nettle Street