The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-21

tributor and Friend of the Caucasian
The article following is from a lady
contributor and friend Of the Caucas-
ian II viii be perused with interest
In the Shreveport Times of Friday.
August 70. there appeared two illustra-
tions under the heading United to
Crush the Slavery OF New York Sweat
Shops One picture was Of the march
ing cloak makers who are on a strike
The other depicted strikers family
Perhaps every one noticed the defiant
look upon the faces Of the parents and
children who are battling for life.
Life can not exist without food.
| Food can not be bought without
money.
Money can not be made without work.
Even the richest capitalist must work
ito keep his money tied up
Indeed. the capitalist has to work SO
lizard that he has little satisfaction in life
and that little is marred by mental anx-
icty that some dollar may slip from his
grasp
Mental and physical work is about on
a par, when people, are forced by some
fear or BY some need TO 60 on from day
TO day as if in a treadr1ill
How long has it been since the cloak
makers strike started2
If memory serves correctly, it started
thirty days ago.
Thirty days IS long time to suffer
mental or physical anxiety.
Is not thirty days long time to bear
enforced idleness?
Thirty days is very long time for
the minds Of men to be held in bondage
by IDEAS, when the welfare Of humanity
il in the balance.
The information given in print states
One of the strangest features of the
strike Of 5000 cloak makers in New
York is that the biggest employers, as
individuals, want the strikers TO wiz
Yet as an organization they are fighting
fhe union demands. They know 6lsat
the conditions have been hard and the
wages pitiable. but they had to meat re
competition. The inscriptions employ
er has been doing out starvation wages,
and his rival must pay equally low
wages
Now let Us look casually at the pat
form of labor and capital, and it ap-I
pears that the platform of capital IS
built on labor The platform of labor is
built on capital. And when these dis
agreements occur each platform would
collapse If they were not welded to-
gether by so-called principles good and
bad.
As in each century conditions vary, at
each issue of labor and capital there
lstist be assumed some new abs raction
Q strengthen the rickety platform for
he time being. At the present time
apital is being stimulated BY this The
Inscriptions employer has been doling
out starvation wages (tc the cloak
Iakers) and his rival must pay equally
mall wages"
BY inserting this plank into its plat
.orm, capital demonstrated that it il on
linking ground. Does it show intelli
renee to be led by the INSCRIPTIONS? Is [
hat good organization? t
OF course the public outside of New 4
FORK does not know who are the un- t
cTupulous employers. But it stands 10
eason that the employers who know y
hat conditions have been hard AMI /
wages pitifuP should assert themselves 6
S intelligent human beings instead Of e
mixing beneath the heavy organizas; N
Inch should be made to bend o the c
reatest good for the greatest number. a
Just think Of it ] Sevente 1--WE tnous- e
nd people out Of enploymens, and as
ne conterplates those figures the ques- v
- comes up What is til. number IF !
Employers standing on the vague plat K
orm Of capital