Show SELF MADE MARTYRS AY DAY used to bring thoughts of happy MI MAY children dancing around a May pole Nowadays it brings thoughts of unhappy radIcals radicals radicals rad rad- dancing around public places to dodge the clubs of busy policemen On the May day that Is at hand there will probably be a good many demonstrations by communists near-communists near and the like And there is one thing that we need to re remember remember remember re- re member about those people Nearly every everyone one of them has a martyr complex Nothing pleases the radical agitator more than to have something happen to him which will enable him to call himself a martyr It gives him a talking point to boost himself into the limelight He actually wants the police to club him and drag him off to jail As an example consider the case of Tom Mooney The decision turning down his plea for a pardon had hardly been given to the public when Mooney was announcing This makes me the outstanding figure In Inthe inthe inthe the worlds world's labor movement and a symbol of the struggle of labor for its rights If Mooney had hadil been pardoned a decade ago he would have be been n forgotten by now provided he remained peaceful As it Is he has furnished the cause with another self- self made martyr |