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TtlX CONNECTICUT LABOR
PRESS.
THE CONNECTICUT LABOR PRESS j Bolshevism encounters drastic
ULtLA I IN FRENCH ELECTIONS
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,NEW . HAVEN, CONN.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT RUNS
TRUE TO FORM IN COAL STRIKE
Ex-President Taf t, who has never been considered particularly
friendly to organized labor, breaks into print again in Wednesday's
tissue of the New 'Haven Register condemning the coal miners tor
'trying to hold up the public by refusing Xo mine coal.
. The miners struck, not to hold upthe public, but to secure a
necessarv increase of wages. That an increase is deserved is indi-
?,cated"bv eveii Mr; Garfield's modest recommendation-of f4 per cent
axuiv Secretary of Labor Wilson's more , generous, suggestion of 31
. per. cent.,,, . : -.; i . .'. .
;;" ' However, Mr. Taf t would, presumably, prefer to have the miners
istrike in" June or ' July when cessation oi work would be more agree
. .able to. the. operators. and the. miners' chances of winning comparable
to those, of the proverbial cat. with the tallow legs, chased by the
''asbestos 'dog through the region where no coal problem is supposed
j to. exist. "... ' " : " ' ' ,.:
The miners deri-t want to1 inflict suffering on the public. They
want .a living wage and fair., working conditions and being forced to
strike as a last resort they, have to strike when a -t strike is liable to
,e'vejffective;;,;'. I' . :-:-V "... . ., ' - .!... . '
r, v Why . doesn 't , Mr. Tatt express , condemnation for the operators
6 whose refusal to get. together with the men holds up the public and
ereates suffering? - -
vi 4Jniyiew.f Mr.TaftV remarks, those of William G, McAdoo are
-? worthy of; eonsideration : , . ..'-, : ' , :
. Bituminous coal profits in 1917 were "shocking and indef ensi-
ble'i" 'says'Mr: McAdoo', in a telegram to Dr. Garfield urging that
the, "ntine. owe.be 'not permitted v to saddle any higher prices for
coal onrther public as t a result of the. wage controversy. -
V.;- He say's .'these profits ran "from 15 per cent, to 1,000 per cent.''
?.;- Mr.-McAao6rsays he knows that this is so because, as secretary
bf the -treasury, he examined the; income tax statements. .He did not
vjsee- the, .1918 .tax statements because he left the trasury before they
-scameani but he does not indicate jthat they showed any lower profit.
l - Mr. McAdoo-says he believes the mine- owners should pay a wage
- increase ancl, NOT! PASS IT ALONG TO THE PUBLIC.
It is nice to have somebody come along like this and turn a mys
tery inside, out. Out 'of.' 4 shocking and indefensible profits 3 ranging
i-4from;''fifteen per1 cent, to two thousand per cent, surely the mine
--ownersought to find the moderate increase " suggested by Secretary
.Wilsoh4an increase in Swages of some 31 per cent.
'"iWe are obliged "to Mr., McAdoo for the facts he has -given 'and
we hope the coal operators -will understand that Americans are grow
Miriore averse every djqtyi to profiteering. . ., .
NEW HA VEN NEEDS A COMFORT
STATION AND NEEDS IT AT ONCE
y A long-time ago, but still within the memory of the oldest living
.delegate's, the New. Jlaveri Trades Council passed a resolution favor
.vinw,he estabUshment of a comfort statioh in the center of the Elm
.City.r Also,' -somewhere in the dim and distant past, the board of
T 'aMermeh jorderedthe installation of such a station.
' t -'i-The, project has bumped along through various vicissitudes ever
-since but New Haven! remains aa uncomfortable as even so far as- the
- 'comfort station is concerned. m ; . ' . '
r Wednesday evening the committee on sewers and sanitation held
another hearing on the matter, and organized labor was represented
ixi its.. advocacy, by. President Patrick P. O'Meara of the Connecticut
Federation "and ex:-presiderit of the New Haven Trades Council, to
getheirwith ' John ; J7 Murphy ; president of the board of aldermen
and 'business agent of the Cigarmakers' union. "
v'-; -JBoth 'discussed' possible locations that would be suitable and
" urged that some speed be shown in making the station a condition
rather thaii "continued as a theory, so to speak. Others also spoke
onthe project. ' X - - i
4NOW-4that,'s all right as far as it goes but for the sake of all
New Haven let's get some ACTION. .. A comfort station is needed
moreth'eyer.- Practically all up-to-date communities have them.
" They feran absolute necessity as well as a convenience. Let's have
j,.'6ne,.with just: as little delay, as possible and let's have it in the center
of the city where, it will be available when wanted. In this respect
v a comfort station 'is like a, revolver you may go a long time without
Y 1 JTlie ideal site' seems to be near "the Bennett fountain on tlie
the state house still stands. An attractive entrance could be designed
for" a station near the Bennett fountain which would be an ornament
Trather;than a detraction to the Green and the benefit to the commun-
.ity would be incalculable.
; . . BUT let's get at it: "
However disastrous may be the present conduct qf. American
extremists and exponents of overthrow, surely it is cheerings news
that comes out of Europe. 1
Principally from France comes the good news. The Radical
Socialists of France espqused the Bolshevik idea. They lost some
eighty-five seats in the election just held. '
Jean Longuet,' some eight months ago named) by Lenine as Bol
shevik representative in France, heads the list of those cast out by
the voters of France. Pacifists, Zimmerwalders,. Stoekholmers all
were given instructions by the electorate to stay out of the Chamber
of Deputies.
In aU the various Socialist parties of France lost more than 100
seats buF the Radical Socialists were hardest hit. In Italy, where
Socialists are of much th same brand, heavy losses were sustained?
In Belgium, where Socialists have not been identified with pacifism
and pro-Germanism and' defeatism, they gained heavily, v But the
French and Italian pacifist doctrinaires have been taught something.
It is doubtful if American extremists of the same type will gather
anything from th$s demonstration. Doubtless they will not. Pre
tending to possession of all knowledge, they are yet slowest of all to
learn where realfacts are concerned.
But this we now know: Europe, which we have been told by
our own dear pacifists, Bolshevists and late pro-Germans, was sliding
swiftly toward revolution and the end of the hated bourgeoisie is
not sliding that way at all. It is sliding back to common sense
democracy back to the job of rebuilding in an orderly way after
the war.
There were those who last Spring predicted that June 21st, which
was the date fixe c upon for a general strike, would be The Day of
revolution. The day came and passed minus revolution. Excuses
were made. In France election day was to vindicate - Bolshevism.
Election day has come and gone minus vindication for Bolshevism.
Seldom has any fantasy had more severe condemnation. ,
' Europe has its troubles. It, is beset from many directions.. It
has suffering. In some quarters it still may be .a. possibility. But
not in France. ... , . 1 ' ,,'
The election result will be bitter medicine for those American
leaders of more, or less, erratic "intelligensia" to swallow. But swal
low it they must. And if they are wise they will swallow with it
some wisdom about America, for America thinks no more of Bol
shevism than does France perhaps not even as much.
And back of, all this condemnation there is one fundamental
reason : The thing is undemocratic, it is crazy, and it dpesn?t,work
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- tl AMERICA, LAND OF DEMOCRACY
5-We didn't, make the world safe for something that we are going
toWfctow up. ' v .
v ;'7-We made it safe for, something-that we prized highly enough to
V.keepand to; protect again, if we have to. 1
,. Those foolish persons who, organize in little parlor and back yard
gangs- ang aaopt wonarous constitutions caning ior tne overtnrow ot
cjvething and a general smash-up of civilization are guessing wrong.
' -Nothinff doine. on Bolshevism in America. ,
. Nothing doing on the Lenine idea.
- - Nothing doing on social insanity in America.
Those who start out to get something by undemocratic methods
in America Will get nothing nothing but trouble.
" .Democracy goes out where Bolshevism comes in. Bolshevism
can't live in the same land with democracy.
This land happens to be a democratic land. The moral ought
-"to "fee clear. To make it stronger, this-land is firmly resolved to re-
main AtxmttfoKl ' i '")-..' . " " ' '
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' ' reason to the winds in their espousal of such insanity as Bolshevism.
But 'let them listen to this, if they will: This country is eternally,
.fundamentally, first, last and finally, democratic. It is committed
"to the,, methods and. practices and ideals of democracy. Anybody,
; that wants to get anywhere with an idea in this country has got to
' propound that idea to the" judgmentof America. Anybody that wants
. tO,ge$ an idea into1 action in this country has got to get into action
'through th6 "ordered processes of democracy. Nobody has yet suc
ceeded, irt blowing an idea into this country with dynamite, direct
action or destruction.
Some have been insane enough to try it, thus betraying their
sublime ignorance and their utter incapacity to understand or de
serve democracy. Americans believe democracy is the best thing the
-world has ever known. They understand that there can be and are
evils, in the. land. '-. Democracy doesn't mean human infallibility. But
- i iti. gives 4he people the power and the machinery for righting every
wrong ' that exists. There are bitter disappointments and grievious
wrdngs-T-but the door is always open to a . better tomorrow. We are
privileged to use; that? door. We don't have to blow it down.
f ' There are those in America wno need to learn this lesson: borne
: of them are persons who ought to know it well the parlor Bolsheviki,
the emotionally erratic. There are those who have come to us from
foreign despotisms where oppression left them no normal land free
" agencies through which to advocate and secure change and improve
.ments. j , . : ; . .
. These-willhave to learn what democracy is and they will have
to learn; to use-tne maenm-ery ot uemoerae.
; This is not a land of dynamite and dangers. This is a land of
reason and'' ballots. Let that be" thoroughly understood by all.
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