The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-07
IRON OTHER PENS
STRIKE FACTS.

II ali e lplOyeeS WOOlQ take inc
public into their confidence as have
the coal mine operators in the Colo
RADIO districts, where a strike is now
attracting national attention, there
would often be less assistance for en-
ployees in the nature of that general
sympathy which ordinarily decides
the result in these industrial struggles.
q three column Advertisement setting
forth just the facts. the public needs
in such cases. 1t reproduced the pay
roll OF one OF the affected mines for
August, the last month under nom-
inal operation. 1t shows the names
of 1856 miners-they are mostly Ital-
ians. with a few Poles-the number of
days each worked, the total amount
earned by each during the month and
the average receipts Of ach per day.
OF the entire 1856 only five received
less than 50 q day, and Of these two
worked only one day, while the entire
i've worked only 81 days IN all.
Eleven earned between 500 and $40
for the month; 12 between $40 and.
$120: Is between $12C and $40; 8
between $3.50 and $40: 3 between
$3.50 and $50: 5 between $3.50 and
$170. and earned over $170 for the
month. Some of them worked 26
days; all could have worked the full
| &c days if they had wished to do SO:
AOAAS WOIA0N1 LuOEC-&uO the Jay was
eight hours in all cases. The average
of the pay for the 1855 men was $4.4l
| a day. while ~ men averaged $4.75
day. or more than 1920 for the
month. The wages were net. none Of
the operatives having assistants to
pay. The statement Is made that the
wages thus shown are no higher than
at other mines in the state. Infor-
nation of this kind gives the public
chance to Judge about the merits Of
a strike. It offsets the natural pre-
sumption that men will not strike I'M
less they are forced to extreme meas
ures by sheer necessity, for the or
binary man will not agree that work.
ers who are getting on the average
$12O month are in desperate con-
dition. Public sympathy is generally
an invaluable aid to either side in a
strike, and there Is no better way of
winning 1t than statements of fact
like these made by the Colorado mine
owners.-Detroit Free Press.
| THE KING AND HIS FELLOWS.
| When the king can become a SOM
moner, and with the genuine desire,
not diplomatic pose, OF communion,
anairs are not SO rotten in the state
of the kingdom. 1t has been moot
question whether King George would
be able to hold the throne of his an
Lloyd-George; not that the outer
forms of kingship are in danger, but
there il such democratic interest in
England that the times have worked
to obscure the monarch, to make him
but fgurehead. King George IL de-
| cidedly not the kingly king that Ed
ward was. ruler who. through him.
self made his country respected and
considered among all the countries a
the world: and who kept Kingdoms In
amity That 10 not at all the task III
George. The position of England
among the nations is not at stake. Tho
position of England among English.
men. especially among those English.
men who are workingmen, has been al
stake King George is proving that HI
can be democrat with his subjects. q
Fellow with his fellowmen. Bucling
ham palace. the London home Of thu
| king. has been In the hands of work.
ingmen for several months; q new
front has been put on it. and many Inn
provements made to this historic bu
never attractive mansion. Now tina
the work is about completed, KIM
George IL to sup with the workingmen
He IL not to give q banquet, or a din
ner. or social function, with thes'
subjects Of his: that would place hin
I unoer suspicion with them. He Il NO
even to invite them to be his guests II
the state dining room Of the palace
there. where they have been worline
tney would be conscious Of the spac,
between king ana subjects. Eut he ha
asked them to meet him In q Londo1
restaurant. where they win feel tina
they have as much right to b n i,
And they will sup together az fellow
ana frlends. 1t II not condensation oI
his part. but a happy correspondent
with the spirit of the times And, tn
WofKngmen DARE mot make It coude
scension ON their part. but q renerou
meeting Of q kim half NAV r. $500