Warm Talk.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 12 July 1917, Page 3

Warm Talk.

« I.W.W.'S IDEAL. SCATHILNG REPORT FROM ; UNITED STATES, The Premier's Department of 'New South Wales lias received the 'biennial report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Nebraska (U.S.A.), in which the following interesting references to the I.W.W. occur:— "Kansas and Oklahoma and. other neighbouring States have had their troubles with the I.W.W. bands, though Nebraska has been relieved of their activities to a large degree. Just where and at what point in the makeup of organized society these extreme exponents of discontent come in, and just what their aims, ideals, aspirations. are, it is difficult to ascertain or understand. Each individual member of the I.W.W. has a- different idea of what the organization wants, and each individual member dreams a different dream and voices different hallucinations. -Upon one purpose th'\v seem to be agreed, 'raise more 4 hell and less wheat,' as advocated by the late .Mary - Ellen Lease, of Kansas/; "The I.W.W. organization seems to be an organization of misfits and malcontents. " . , • * "The I.W.W. gives 'practically nothing to society, but takes everything. In the strikes in the United -States in which these fellows have been active thev had nothing to contribute save slander and abuse for every man ivho was in the firing line giving the best that was in him for the rights of commcu humanity. The elements that clamors for industrial solidarity has never built up anything, but has been notorious for tearing down. Tho element of froth and foam that howls against everything and anything that refuses to put the label of approbation on the ravings of freaks and fanatics. has been tireless in its work against a sane and orderly solution of the problems of the day l . This element has called strikes, and while the workers were bearing the brunt of the baftle, the element that declared war against employers was handling the revenue that came .in circulars, scattered broadcast, appealing for financial assistance. The circulars wore couched in words that were wet with tears, and thousands of men and women in the labor movements were deluded with the sobs and sighs that were put into words which made up the circulars. These fellows, while becoming the beneficiaries of the H/a-h----or movement, brand the labor unions as 'scab batch-cries,' and insult the intelligence of the rank and file in the Labor movement by advising 'Hit the ballot box with an axe.' "