New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-11-27
WIG C&OuS PROTEST E-t~-
The PEOPLE Will g.
COuGLEGS TO D. -
E!LLLON JINGO SALaL.
Ry Frederick Monroe.

have .a5d their cards on tnr tiol-
One Dillon Of dollars ii u,J Yeah
!, the demand. One billion 20 2
to the war trust. One DAuon 10
fine munitions masters, the armO
plate makers, the powder makers
the torpedo makers, the shell
makers, the torpedo makers, tn
shell makers. the gun makers, anl
so on.
Your Congressman is gettln!
ready to vote for this. lie ,
getting ready to vote millions il
private profits to the war trust
And. Mr.. Workingman. what vii
you get out of it? Maybe death
maybe suffering, disease. or the
unspeakable horrors of war.
but how about the jobs fol
workingmen in the war trusts
factories and mills?' you ask
"Maybe wei II get a job out Of it.
Maybe you will.
A Job like this:
Out Of every 100 men who were
working for the Bethlehem Steel
Company (Which has drawn down
$42 ,32l .237 worth of armOr plate
contracts alone since 1880 when
the great strike took place in 1910.
twenty-nine were working seven
days every week.
Out of every 100 men forty
three. including these nine, We're
working some Sundays in the
month.
Out of every 100 men. twenty
five were working twelve hours
a day seven days week.
Out Of every 100 men. fifty-on
were working tewlve hours a day.
Out Of every 100 men forty-s
We're canning less than s. a day.
These are the figures which the
United States Bureau Of Labor
dug up when it investigated that
strike. The inquiry was made in
1910. Under the direction of Ethel
bert Stewart. a special agent of
the Labor Bureau. who has the
REPUTATION of being one of the
most experienced economic ~
ves+iratorS in the United States.
When this strike began there
were no labor organizations in the
plant Of the Bethlehem company;
the company would not permit
Them. 1t was the higher grade
workers who led the strike. Some
pf these men had as low as ten
bnd -half-hour work day But
hey were frequently being com
belled to work overtime and Sun
lays. and at last fearing that they
you'd be utterly crushed, they
protested. The protesting COM
hittee was discharged. There
ore the strike.
The Bureau S investigation re-
Fealed the terrible facts of this
teel mills expressions. Those
Fere the conditions that existed
b one Of the plants which viii
let very large slice of that bill
on dollars whicL cOmplaccnt
Ongressmcn are getting ready to
lass over to the gaping nav of
Pc war trust. This is the man
Ter in which concerns that have
rawn $175 100000 of the pco-
les money We're trea ting their
Employees in 1910. Since that
me mech ht-hour-day legisla-
on has been enacted. but the
EEL mills remain unorganized.
pd nobody knows now how many
velve-hour shifts continue to be
orked by the slaves of the {
ust. ,
DO you, Mr.. Workingman, de I
re that your government shall :
(ntlnue to feed money to a con- l
m like this which has mistreat- i
and underpaid their workmen S
years? If you want this
ppped, then get busy and pro-
st. Nobody can do it for YOU,
U have got to do it yourself.
The concerns which comprise
ring of profit-takers which
u benefit by this big armament
Rze are the very concerns which
notorious for their bitter en-
~ toward organized labor.
4 survey of living conditions in
sburgh made in 1909 by the
&c Foundation revealed some
re remarkable facts about the
y these concerns treat their I
rkmen. Edward Bjorkman, a
gazlne writer. was furnished
"a the material gathered by the I
lndation and put some of the
UlIpS INTO .,,t, Ia | <