The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-01-06
LABOR CLASS GAINS
Enqland's Middle Class Feel Ad-
vance of Former.
Paper Declares That tho Lot of Pro-
fessionai With Moderate Income
10 Far Worse Than That OF the
Average Working Man.

London.-A good deal OF attention
is being paid to the true meaning and
effect of the almost continual labor up
heavals that have affected this country
In the last few years, and that threat
en- to continue for an indefinite period.
The Daily Express finds ground for
hope of peace in the circumstance, or
alleged circumstance, that, as result
of the recent strikes, many of the la
Dor organizations are virtually bank
rupt mot one or two, but nearly all
the societies Of organized workers. 1t
says, ARE suffering severely from the |
strain put on their resources by the !
strike mania Of the last few years. |
| The grand strikes have duly taken |
place They have neither inundated |
! the employers nor broken the back OF |
organized society, though they have |
done much to imperil that right to
work which ought to be no less in
alienable than the right to strike. But
they have effectually bankrupted the
General Federation. reducing its re-
serve fund to meager sum, largely,
1t is said, hypothecated In other d.
| rections.
The Globe, pointing out another fea-
ture Of the situation that has ari.'n
from the labor unrest, prints thought
full article headed Middle Class Bur
dens," 1T is" 1t says, easy to wax
sentimental over the woes of the So
called working classes; and now that
labor has secured a certain amount of
political power, demagogues are find
ing that to heap benefits from the
ample Golfers of the state upon the
working man is sure and safe road
to the attainment and retention OF Of
fice"
Obviously, however, says the Globe,
} the state can not continue to provide
free education old age pensions and
expensive insurance, as well as salts
flying the hundred and one other de-
mands of the trades unions, without
some other class feeling the pinch. 1t
goes on to say: IF the added burden
fell solely or chiefly upon those al
ready possessed of a superiority OF
this worlds goods, there would not be
much cause for complaint. Probably
we should all, collectively and indi-
vidually, be better off II society were
SO constituted that neither the million
aire nor the pauper could exist But
that is a prospect outside reasonable
calculation, and, as things are, the peo.
pie who pay for the tightening OF the
often well-todo workingman's life are
that great middle class, which, even
before the recent marked increase In
1 | >f li,ri, HoC al fS,,,r,d
| the struggle for existence a hard and
/ strenuous one.
i AT present the lot of the profess
i sional man with a moderate income
i is, we say it unhesitatingly, far worse
i than that of the average working man.
II If the latter has cause to complain that
II his wages do not possess the same pur-
II chasing power as formerly, the pro-
II fessional man has good ground for
II maintaining that he suffers even more
Il severely from the same cause, while
Il his unavoidable expenses are far
\ heavier
I'm what direction, 1t may be asked
is a remedy to be found for this state
of things' 1t is clear that this one
4 class can not go on forever bearing
q not only it's own legitimate share OF
81 the countrys burdens, but everybody
elses In addition. Yet politicians ant
least of all radical demagogues-have
no thought for them. Our ears are
40 deafened with the din of many speech
- es expressing the deepest sympathy
=, for the woes Of the people, parliamen
- passes measures intended, at q cost, tt
- relieve this or that grievance OF thu
~ same sovereign people. But 1t is t,
AL be noted that this phrase, SO reml
niscent of French revolutionary times
- covers, not all the honest working cit
no zens In the state. but only that elias
III of workers already sufficiently care
% for.
VI We do not believe that 1t would b
" possible for the middle classes to CON
on bine as the working classes have done
w. and wrench their rights from parlis
TO- ment But we do say 1t is the dut
GO of the Unionist party to come to tn
III III assistance of class which, above a
III others, has suffered from the pred;
'a- tory and socializing Legislation OF th
'in last few years"
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