Show LET THE LIGHT SPREAD I IA A well known woman once oice remarked that wel she had repeated a certain child childhood hood story so often oren that sho no longer Knew hother mether it applied to lo her hor or her he younger sister That Thai ISI ls the fix fx of time tw manufacturing interests of the country cOln try today toda So long have havo they thoy rehearsed certain yarns for the benefit of o the working class cass that hat they thoy now no longer longel know whether those yarns apply to lo the workers or ou to lo themselves One of these yarns is that about the time freedom of labor l bor Labor is so de 10 delightfully 10 unfettered It can work or 01 stop slop work change employers cS at al will wi If it satisfied with wih Its wages it itcan Itcan itcan can seek seck better heller beler no one can compel it to do what it want want to etc Now Nov No the Uio Moving Picture Patents company compan being combination of all al the leading moving picture film fm manufacturers has begun to issue licenses to exhibitors Those licenses to lo be he paid pat for at specified rates entitle the Iho hol holder holder der tier to lo purchase or oi rent ment films from time the combination Ot or course those who dont want to pa pl RY the extra license fee in addition addIton to lo the tho cost ot of o time the films Ims are arc rebelling And A 11 what argument does dos the tile Moving Pictures Patents Patent cum com company pany pan use uso to silence them Why the of time the same old yarn an In a new dress freedom of labor Licensed exhibitors says the time Moving 10 ing lag Picture World arc not miot bound hound to the time company the thc licensed service at atan then he no any an time lime Thore can 10 question qu ston of oC the time signing sign In away t of ones freedom when freedom is entirely a a matter mailer mater of personal option opton Boasted Freedom Of OC coure no one is to the Uw company compan Only if one pa pay license ti Unite he get time the best est films and that hunt means lost business and possible extinction e Honee though no agreement to that lint effect exists the exhibitor is b by the very yel law of his being bound to the company compan Just so It is with wih labor Its Us boasted boated freedom lies Ics in that no statute makes It II a bondman of time the ecu cen tunes If I signing a license agreement agreement is a loss of freedom anti and done under tinder virtual compulsion by 13 h the moving pic plc picture picture ture showman how much more Is not no labors begging and anti acceptance of a ajob ajob ajob job at insufficient wages a loss of freedom also It I is not to bo ho hoped that hat the moving I picture men will wi learn lear by their fix fx tho time I falseness of the thc claim of o the time freedom of oE labor their bourgeois Instinct are arc too loo thick a wall wal for that but la Ia 10 bor bot should houll profit by b the object lesson lenson now being projected on the tho screen for forit fori forit it i Dark stars clashing In space pace or cap capitalist capItalist blockheads of oC combines and anti Independents clashing clah Ing on earth It is imi hal all al one for Natures purpose and ant that thai is Light Let the Iho light spread Week Weekly I ly I People |