IT T has been amply demonstrated by the country's industrial history that injunctions can not make men work, and it is also being demonstrated that injunctions do make men think, and that thinking makes men act collectively to protect their rights. A judge sitting upon the bench, by a stroke of a pen, may enjoin men from endeavoring to organize their fellow men, when these happen to be tradeunionists; but this stroke of the pen in this land of free men is not the last word, and cannot be made so.

Molders' right to organize and solicit membership is in every way equivalent to the right of a Chamber of Commerce, a Kiwanis or a Rotary Club, or any other organization, to solicit membership when the purpose of organizing is to improve the member's welfare through lawful means, and we have yet to read a judicial decision which held that peaceful persuasion, promises of better pay, shorter hours, or better conditions, were unlawful methods.

-John P. Frey.

A landanimal can not live without land. All that man produces comes from the land; all productive labor, in the final analysis, consists in working up land, or materials drawn from land, into such forms as fit them for the satisfaction of human wants and desires. Man's very body is drawn from the land. Children of the soil, we come from the land, and to the land we must return.

MAN is a land-animal.

Take away from man all that belongs to the land, and what have you but a disembodied spirit? Therefore, he who holds the land on which and from which another man must live is that man's master; and the man is his slave. The man who holds the land on which I must live, can command me to life or to death just as absolutely as though I were his chattel. Talk about abolishing slavery? We have not abolished slavery; we have only abolished one rude form of itchattel slavery. There is a deeper and more insidious form, a more current

I HEARTILY accept the motto

"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe "That Government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government at best is but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an

arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war (1849), the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.

-Henry David Thoreau.

A WORKINGMAN is not supposed

to ask anything more than a fair day's wage for a fair day's work; he is supposed to work until he is pretty fairly tuckered out, say eight hours, and when he does a fair day's work he is not supposed to ask for any more wages than enough to support his family, while with the business man the amount of labor furnishes no criterion for the amount they receive. People accept it as all right if they do not do any work at all, and accept it as all right that they get as much money as they can; in fact, they are given credit for getting the greatest amount of money with the least amount of work; and these things are being accepted by the other side as the things that govern in every-day life, and as being right, have brought about this condition, this being in my judgment absolutely unfair; that is, on the merits of the proposition in dealing with the workers.

The workers feel this, some unconsciusly and some consciously, but all of them feel it, and it makes for unrest, in my judgment, and there can be no peace while the condition obtains. -John H. Walker.

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ANY people anywhere being inclined

and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better.

-A. Lincoln.

LIVE in contact with dreams, and

you will get something of their charm; live in contact with facts, and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country where the facts were not brutal, and the dreams not unreal.

-G. B. Shaw.

THE 'HE re-election of judges is in the hands of a few men. They are at the hand of the Bar Association. Every one of them is retained by powerful corporations.

No impartial student of the subject can doubt that the courts are partial to accumulated wealth, that they are on the side of the powerful employer and against his employes, and that they are daily, through judge-made law, oppressing the poor and lowly in the interest of amassed capital.

-Supreme Court-Justice John Ford.

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IF the membership of American • labor unions has been restricted by the various methods which their opponents declare, why is it that from 1881 to 1921 the membership of the American Federation of Labor increased from 40,000 to 4,000,000, or multiplied itself 98 times, an increase of 9,800 per cent?

2. How is effective collective bargaining possible unless the workers are organized into strong, permanent unions? The same question applies to arbitration, mediation and conciliation.

3. If labor unions should be destroyed because they have made mistakes why should not also corporations, governments, and all institutions be destroyed which have made mistakes?

4. What better or more effective means is there than the labor union for industrial democracy? Unless some better method is reached to secure justice in industry the labor unions must be upheld.

5. As long as a labor union is the open union type, how is the charge of monopoly possible? Is any organiza

tion which is constantly inviting its competitors to join, as the members of labor unions invite outsiders to join, a monopoly?

6. If the open shop is so desirable and successful, why is it that from 1881 to 1922 the membership of American labor unions increased from 40,000 to

5,000,000?

-Bowers and Buehler.

MOST politicians and business men say, "Yes, I believe in religion: I contribute to the church, but I do not allow religion to mix with my politics or business." And they do not.

Religion does not necessarily mean the church; it does not mean creed; or sect. It means belief in justice, a belief in right, determination to do right and not do wrong. -Glenn Plumb.

1.FOR a total of 391,000 horses and

mules, a dollar a year man bought 945,000 saddles and over 1,000,000 sets of double harness; and 1,637,197 horse brushes, four brushes for each animal.

2. Nose bags ordered totaled 2,000,000; and halters 2,850,000 in the month that the Armistice was signed. A contract was made with Henry Moss & Co., of New York, for 195,000 branding irons to be made of copper.

3. Over 2,000,000 typewriters were purchased during the war. This was one for every soldier.

created only a mild sensation for a brief time. As yet, no one has been sent to jail. -"Labor."

THIS is no longer a Government by the vote and will of the majority, but has become a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

-Woodrow Wilson.

UP to the great struggle in 1914-18,

the militarist had somewhat the better of the moral argument. The man who offered up his life for the welfare or glory of his country was doing a fine thing. But modern war is changing even that. Of the millions killed in battle, the millions under arms, comparatively few made the supreme sacrifice voluntarily. They were conscripted. They had to go and take the chance of being killed or dying with certainty up against a wall. -Will Irwin.

No fair minded person can deny that

the working people, as a class, are denied fair play in the creation, enactment, adjudication and administration of law.

1. That the very instruments of democracy are used to oppress them and to place obstacles in the way of their movement towards an economic industrial and a political freedom.

2. The laws necessary for their protection against the most grievous wrongs cannot be passed except after long, bitter and exhausting struggle. 3. That those which do become law are not enforced, and the beneficial measures which are enacted are largely nullified by unwarranted decisions of the courts.

4. That the whole machinery of the government is often turned over to the big interests for the oppression of the workers during industrial disputes, which are too numerous to mention.

WE cannot assume that they (Su

preme Court) will not err in their construction of the constitution, since the very basis of their assumption of the power is that both houses of Congress have erred in the particular matter before them. Besides that court held the legal tender law illegal and then held it legal. They held the

I HAVE never known commercial morality to be as low as it is today. Legal departments of various banks are working overtime trying to effect settlements in cases where commercial firms have not lived up to contracts. Business men complain loudly when trade unions occasionally break an agreement. But today there are ten business contracts broken for every labor contract broken. Even large responsible concerns will search for any pretext, to lie down on a contract, if the prices have moved the wrong way.

-B. C. Forbes, Philadelphia, Public Ledger, July, 1920.

They have reversed numerous decisions of their own court thereby holding that the court is not infallible. Moreover, they have repeatedly held an act invalid by majority of one vote. This rests the Government not upon the intelligence and integrity of both houses of Congress, but upon the "infallibility" of the odd man upon the Court.

the transportation system was taken over by the Government. This control was not assumed until the situation had become desperate, until transportation had been blockaded from the plains of Kansas to the Atlantic; until the incompetent, wasteful and profiteering practices of the railroads became impossible.

When the Government took possession, the people of the country were

Court of North Carolina.

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ONE precedent creates another.

They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify while they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy.

-From "Letters of Jonius."

starving for food which could not be transported. The War Department depended upon this agency of transportation, without which supplies and soldiers could not be shipped to France.

The Government constructed out of the wreckage the railroads had turned over, a modern up to date war machine for transportation such as the world has never known.

The railroad executives immediately organized a publicity scheme for perverting the truth. They diligently set out to convince the American people that they had been grievously wronged by the Government, when as a matter of fact the railroads were rescued from disaster and overwhelming failure by the government's action.

-La Follette.

THE opposition is not between the

worker and the capitalist; it is between the man who works, who suffers, who experiences, who knows, and the man who never works, never suffers, never experiences, and never knows. -Gilbert Stone.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world. -G. B. Shaw.

dous significance of these figures will be appreciated when it is known that one-third of all the adult workmen reported by the Immigration Commission earned less than $10 per week, even exclusive of time lost. On the showing of Johnstown these workmen may expect one out of four of their babies to die during the first year of life.

The last of the family to go hungry are the children, yet statistics show that in six of our largest cities from 12 to 20 per cent of the children are noticeably underfed and ill nourished. -U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations, 1915.

EVERY intellectual prostitute, every self exempting political shark and the money gluttons who excite the people into the hell of war-these and every one of them-in case of war should be forced to dance on the firing line to the hideous music of the cannon roar, and there would be fewer humble homes of the common people desolated by war.

-Kirkpatrick.

CHILDREN are the basis of the

States; as they live or die, as they

thrive or are ill nourished, as they are intelligent or ignorant, so fares the State. How do the children of American workers fare?

It has been proved by studies here and abroad that there is a direct relation between poverty and the death rate of babies; but the frightful rate at which poverty kills was not known, at least for this country, until recently when through a study made in Johnstown, Pa., by the Federal Children's Bureau, it was shown that the babies whose fathers earned less than $10 per week died during the first year at the appalling rate of 256 per 1,000.

On the other hand, those whose fathers earned $25 per week or more died at the rate of only 84 per 1,000.

The babies of the poor died at three times the rate of those who were fairly well-to-do families. The tremen

WE hold these truths to be self

evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their happiness.

Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves