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Show iKfflOD HITS AT CAPITALISM Hitting at capitalism from every direction di-rection William D. Haywood, former secretary of tho Western Federation -ot Miners, and the most vehement defender de-fender ol labor mat has over spoken in this eliy, spo:;c tor nearly vvo hours last night from tho stage of the Ogden theater while tho houso echoed with applause, it was one of the best attended and most enthusiastic labor I meetings ever held in Ogdou, the audience au-dience being augmented no doubt by many persons who came to hear the speaker who preceded him and who stayed to listen to the logic of the big miner. Haywood reviewed the labor situation situa-tion of tho world, recounting some or his experiences while on his recent tour of Europe He outlined what ho termed "the class struggle," contending contend-ing that in all the world there were hut two classes In society tho employing em-ploying and the 'employed classes. He took occasion to most bitterly arraign ar-raign Theodore Roosevelt, whom he charged with helping tho Alton railroad rail-road to steal millions of dollars from the public and with endeavoring to assist the mining interests of the country to hang him and his companions compan-ions while they were In prison at Boise. He smiled at the political antics an-tics of W. J. Bryan, but asserted that many of the Republican politicians of today are using tho policies of the Nebraskan to retain them In office. In speaking of the McNamara brothers' broth-ers' arrest and pending prosecution Haywood compared the case of tho Structural Iron Workers with that of his own. He characterized a detective detec-tive as "the lowest, meanest, most contemptible ' thing that creeps or crawls " He said that there was no chanco of tho McNaraaras having a square trial for the reason that "the thing wasn't started on the square. ' In part, the miner said: "In proportion to the perfection of our organiaztion, we have Increased the wages of the working class throughoul the world, we have reduced re-duced the number of working hours to the week, we havo compelled the capitalist firms and mining 'concerns to Install snfetv nnVlinnena (or thn protection of lives and we havo done innumerable other things that need not be described at the present time. But most of all, we have, by tho accomplishment ac-complishment of these things, reduced reduc-ed the profits of the capitalists And this is principally the reason for the bitter fight that Is ensuing between the working people and the capitalist capital-ist class. This class struggle is going go-ing on in different sections of this country and other nations. Tho final struggle will be world-wide. "Those who have taken part In the hundreds of great and small strikes which have swept through the nations na-tions havo learned to know what the class struggle means Especially have the older men who near life's ond, and tho wife with her babe in arms, who was thrown into jail because be-cause she asked some man not to take the .place of her striking husband hus-band learned to know what tho bitter bit-ter contention means to humanity. "It Is my purpose to make this struggle so "clear that even a lawyer could understand it, so clear that even a preacher could grasp Its moan-lug. moan-lug. The class struggle cannot bo seen through the colored and stained windows of cathedrals and public edifices. edi-fices. To understand It right, it is necessary to know that there are two classes in society. You who are here tonight are not of the class to which the big-rich belong. Effects of the Trust. "The capitalist class Is growing annually an-nually smaller. Whon a trust is formed, many business men of meaub are forced into bankruptcy. When a large merger Is effected, many well-to-do business men are forced through tho screen of circumstances back to the working class. So that tho one set is growing gradually smaller by virtue of the very principles princi-ples which It supports, while the other oth-er Is gaining strongth because It Is In the right. "The capitalist class controls tho rosources of the earth. It controls all the land either by ownership or mortgagos. It owns the transportation transporta-tion lines on land and water. It owns manufactories, mineral fields, coal mlne3 and produce markets. In a word, the capitalist class owiib the must havo access or starve. "Ypu, my friends, on tho other hand, are the working class. You produce the things that make life happy and worth whllo. You produco everything. But tho capitalists havo everything, even though they produce nothing. You have little or nothing, although you produce everything. Thjoy are tho 'takers;' you are the producers. produc-ers. This conflict will last Just so long as ono class ha6 tho right or way to exploit the rest of tho human family. We see what tho rich class has everything. But what has tho working class? The only one heritago tho working class has that It can promise its children Is poverty. Why, in the present day, tho laborer does not even own his Job. Machinery hab taken tho place of tho hands, and the machinery Is owned by tho capitalists. capital-ists. The capitalists own our very lives and control our very destinies. There is no identity of purpose between be-tween these two classes. Protection for Rich. "Tho heuds of governments are tho kings of the rich. Whon President Taft was called upon to protect tho interests of the rich In Mexico during the recent trouble down thore, he sent our battleships, soldiers and sup plies to the border. Lives wore to bo laid down, it necessary, to protect the interests of the rich. But lot Social-Ism Social-Ism get just a little strongerin tho world, and tho time will forever havo -passed when one working man will shoot down auothor in the interest of the capitalist class. "We have only to recall the hiBtory ot organized labor and keop In mind tho strikes that have taken place and arc still going ou throughout tho world, to know that thero has begun a world-wide campaign for human liberty. lib-erty. If the struggle then Is worldwide, world-wide, must not also the organization he world-wldo? "Tho strikes in sections which wo hear so much about, and which go on throughoul different parts of different nations, are like tho little boy who cut off the cat's tail by Inches so aa not to hurt the cat "The recent strike In Eugland was much talked of. It resulted In a victory vic-tory for the working claBs. The crown was taken from the king to the molting pot and. labor was crowned crown-ed king. I bellove that England has crowned her last king and queen and T that the kingdom will become In the near future a righteous laud of industrial indus-trial democracy." |