The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-05-22
The Minimum
Wage League
INQUIRIES POURING IN.
By Thomas ]. Dolan.

1
, large circulation. The editor of the
Cleveland Press, for instance, has the
privilege every day Of talking to al
most half a million rre1, women and
.nildrpn ir Cleveland and at least,
,ne-hatf of the IS counties of Ohio
suspected that for good non!
ears, but now believe it, as the edi-
rcr, IN the issue of May 5, gave the
ohio Minim IN Wage Leagle an en-
,ort,mity to talk to the Press read
RS, We have been receiving many
etters from at least half the counties
Ohio from people volunteering to
,elp in the work Of circulating 1T
nature and petitions for signers to
initiate the Leagues proposed living
wage eigkt-hour workday.
One volunteer from West Virginia
! I'd another from Michigan offer to
cme over the line to help in the
york, and believe il the editor Of
he Press would let lis talk s1mc
nore VIC would nave volunteers from
| canada.
Hundreds; Of millions Of doi!a".'
re given annually to. the nc5wpaper'
" business men for the privilege Of
alking TO he people.
To establish modern daily news
PAPER and carry il until it got 20 hc
paying institution would recni"c 4
apital of at least a million dollars.
Ill daily newspapers are necessarily
owned by men OF wealth, and i az
.!nt be expected that daily paper
an devote all of its space at ali tlnIo3
in the interest of wage-worke"S, ever
i?ough the editors Of many Of tnos"
papers would like to do so. is th"E'
H"c wage-workcrs themselves.
And let me say to the union lna1
who thinks that he could write net
Ter stuff than the editor of this labor
paper, end that putting your thoughts
in writing is a snap, has more thinks
.oming.
The work | did eight hours today
cutting holes through hardwood,
4urhlc doors and metal ceiling, vtc.,
Tor .,t"amhtter to run his lines wnS,
,vrat might be called hard work, but
let re say it was Il snap compared
With the two or three hours that Mi!
Re spent writing this, which is in
tended TO be thorough pr, vc';cr.
Do YOU think it is what it is in
tended to be? II SO, get Il pencil
and paper and tell what you think
and send it in to the editor Of hi
paper.
But remember this, if you claim
the right to think and form oolrions
and express them, youamust concede
that same right to everyone else, and
ya,, must lot fell 'T:nd Il ut tl:e
fellow who disagreeS witt you. His
name is legion, and if you did feel
offended at him. you would cultivate
sore spot that would become 4
chronic running one.
You need rot take for granted
that the above is true. You car
prove it by sending your thoughts il
writing to the editor. And let m"
tell you another thing: Al any time,
for more than 81 years past. any ore
in Cleveland or vicinity who has ha /
any idea or plan to better the con-
ditions of the wage-workers, who with
their wives and children are the
great majority, has always, durin
all Of those years, had the oppor-
tunity through this newspaper, the
Citizen 10 talk to 4 big percentage
CT the large number Of union men
and women in the community, ard
this paper is run ENTIRELY IN
THE INTEREST OF THE WORK
ING PEOPLE, and nobody can saE
that ,Iuring all Of those years, tic
paper has been used to hold up car
Edatcs running for Office or for ant
ether dishonest or bls;:krailing
scheme.
And this is something That cannot
be said Of other 50 called labor pa
ncrs in this community. past and
present.
and VT there arc some uritn men
in this community who know all Vi
this who thoughttessly find fauit DC
cause they disagree with some
thoughts expressed in its columns.
No two persons in this Dig world
will agree on EVERYTHING. We
ali see many matters in different
light, but we who DO the useful work
in this world ought t. agroe Oh this
one thing:
As there is an abundance Of the
necessities and comforts Of life for
ali, ti1r most lnmble worker who
does his hest should get proper
living wage.
No one will dispute that, yet there
are millions of workers in this corl-
munity who are not getting anything
like living wage, and chr women
school teachers who mus: necessarily
be we'll educated and of nigh order
Of Intelligence are among that rum
her.