﻿Lawyers, Supreme Court and Old Age
Opinion Handed Down by T-BONE SLIM

The Court will NOT be increased.
A quietness permeates the pergolas of Justice ... It seems Justice has a past and is not speaking except when spoken too.
It is said a somewhat divided capitalism resides in the house of Justice. It is also said human servitude has unplumbed depths . . . It takes a strong man to withstand relief.
A short two-thirds of the senate are lawyers, frustrated pleaders — everything must go according to precedent . . . “If baby shoes were good enough for the child, they should be good enough for the man.”
Each day the senate knows increasingiy less about industrial pursuits. Not that they forget — but they live in the past and industry is progressive. (Four wheel brakes on a baseball aptly describes senate office.)
Fossilization of age is bad enough, but fossilization of training is worse. To quote: “Some men are born fossilized, some gain fossilization, and others just stick around until fossilization catches up with them.”
A long one-third of the senate are not lawyers; but that doesn’t mean that they are of one profession. They are divided in many callings, as one dentist opposed to 69 lawyers, etc.
Callouses of conscience are destined to take on added incrustation; for THAT is the law.
The Past cannot cure the Present; the Present can cure the Past.
Organize the workers. Yes — him too.
Championing labor’s cause is like getting out behind and pushing a blizzard.
Homer T. Bone, Washington, West Coast, (no relation of mine) jumps the lawyers by trotting out the stupid anti-social behavior of the American Bar Association” and it seems the home life of lawyer antecedents is not so hot.

Am I to understand that sailormen and servant girls are left out of the Social Security program? And farm labor, the poorest of the poor? Parasites are hoping against hope that the fastnesses of the Supreme Court will not be taken.
In the meantime labor should organize and then organize some more.
The salvation as ever is in the pay envelope, and if the salvation is small the spiritual uplift is punk. I do not see empty bellies, undernourished bodies. I only see starving souls on both sides of the fence, and my own caught on a picket.
In the final analysis labor is counted OUT!
The Old Age Pension Plan makes no provisions for the harvest worker. He is supposed forever to be fair and forty-eight. Industrial Union No. 110 of the I.W.W. is looking after the interests of agricultural workers. So make it a point to join; it’s the only way to keep young; first youth, then second youth, and nothing but youth and plenty of steam. (We’ll find out who’s been kicking St. Peter’s hound dog, by heck!)

Four years in the parasites’ college puts a student forty years behind the times.
Four months in Work Peoples College puts a student forty years ahead of the clock . . .
A saving of eighty years right there in four months, and if you decide to go a second term you will be one hunched and sixty before you can wax a mustache or “cast an aspersion” against the GOP in the national election.
Now is the time to start saving for next winter’s schooling. Ten dollars a month under a rock will do it (or you can send it on to the Manager the Chicago at Box 39, Morgan Park Station, the I.W.W. Duluth, Minn., and he’ll hold it for you, safe from all harm, and even give it back to you if you change your mind.)

“Fighting bigotry” is bigotry of sorts. The practice of tolerance is superior to jousting with windmills. You do not war against autocracy; you organize democracy and practice it.
Wars never settle anything; they merely change the form of slavery. Practice organized freedom, and both slavery and its papa, autocracy, will perish. 
Fifty million workers can’t be wrong. If they sit down on their property, their job, who is to say them nay? Methinks the parasites and their flunkeys are in for a row of hard sledding, for Labor, Almighty Labor, is out to get HIS.

Reactionaries fear that if FDR’s proposal in regards the Supreme Court goes through, “some dictator of the future” will eat the court alive. Let me tell you something: Even if FDR never turns a wheel, some dictator can make the court eat the constitution, and stay within its limits doing it.