| Show ORE f ACTION LESS NOISE ONLY SOCIALIST CONGRESSMAN ADVISES HIS PARTY foyer eyer London Who Defeated Tammany Aims ims at pt GOt GOt- Ownership of 01 Railroads and end Con Coal C al Mines and end Elimination of 01 Child Labor Labore By NORMAN ROSE r sta Staff Special NEW YORK Nov 13 A A 6 small email al 1 man sat at a cluttered er d desk In a a lower Broadway U U. building on li him the morning sun Bun poured o b a window which looked out p 11 the tho roofs of t tho o sQ squat at buildings i the the Bowery and Hester Hester street and of of of all aU tho the teeming turgid st st st 6 side do that densely populated Tam Tarn stronghold where in the lato late clec- clec any I Y ion 1021 a Socialist defeated ted the Taman Tam Tam- an candidate for congressman to s T Tho o man at tb the tho desk was M er erdon London don radon the tho first Socialist ever over elected from the Atlantic A c states and tho only Socialist who will sit Bit in the tha next con con- I a Meyer Moyer 1 M Twenty four years aco o don on c came De to the east si side e a boy of 18 IS Au An immigrant ship brought him from m Russia At first ho worked at athing anything hing he be he COl could turn h his s hand to tot b butt but the desire to make mako something D of oi or was as stron stion strong within him an and he dudi studied d law la at night until he gained admISsion to the tho bar e III expect to make many laws e e slid said I m ni too small a R minority Bp I 1 am more moro glad clad than I can say of oft iw he t chance to talk Socialism from the thedoor floor door of the house hous I can preach my I 1 shall b n. n kO goy el eJ and la I Yon You will represent the Socialists of ot the tho nation at Washington I Bug Bug- rested eted II What would you yon say to the Socialists and the Socialist party arty is their greatest need right now nOw The liTho greatest need of tho the Social Social- ilta replied London II is is to turn their power ol ot noise makin making Into the power of at doin doing something We Wo make mako ourselves our our- nr selves Mires heard what we wo must learn how to do is to make ourselves felt We Wem m must holler less and be bo on the job tore more 3 have hao you to say sar of df f child labor la la- labor bor What would would Socialism mean for tat tbt pro problem There should should bo ho no child labor abor inthis in inthis tb this li nation London Loudon answered r Nono Socialism would roud consider it a duty to do away with lt it It But I wouldn would n sot not t favor fenor wiping it out by national orI or I state enactment without at the tame Fame time mak making ri some provision for the tho people dependent on that labor Very Very few parents are aro cru cruel l enough to send their children to work Unless poverty compels els it To cut ent off suddenly sud sud- suddenly denly denly the wage wago earning power of thou sands sans of children woo would be to inflict dreadful hardship in many a 11 home I know know know-I I live among snob eu h homes I r eee see with my own eyes oes why children have havo to work and what their wages means Some day this country will no longer tolerate child labor Jabor and it will also I r hope have learned d b bv DV that time riot not to tolerate the tho abominable le economic conditions con which for force parents to send scud their children n- n nto to work What of ot Colorado government There is one answer ansWer the tho government gov must take tako over the mines own them and operate them Tho most radical radi radio radical cal step possible is the only one ono that can possibly be adopted if further lurther tumult tu tumult tu tumult and bloodshed are arc to be bo avoided i The sooner it is is' is done doue the better for Colorado for tho the miners and tho the mine owners The Th New Haven railroad rottenness rotten rotten- ness what ness what of that from the Socialist point poin t. t of view There are arc man many causes for such rottenness Ono One is the tho looseness of the tho laws governing such Buch corporations another another an other tho the greed grood and unscrupulousness of tho the men who use them thorn for enormous personal gain still another the crookedness crookedness crook crook- edness and chicanery that prevails ails in inthe inthe inthe the practice of the law I am a lawyer lawyer law law- yer BO so I r know what I r am BIn taking about Not Not lon long ago in a big bitt law office here I saw an 8 8 week week shipping clerk elected president of a s huge hu e corporation cor cor- corporation which was wIS being high financed A bookkeeper was elected eJected vico vice president president dent and a stenographer secretary I and treasurer I l' saw a sleek chock c k for made out to that poor 8 a week youth and indorsed over by him to somebody else New Havens are being financed every day in tho the bi big law offices of New York Theres Thero 8 just one remedy remedy govern govern government meat ment of railroads and when we get het et enough Socialists or Socialism in congress that remedy is coins coing to be adopted |
