The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-01-11
THE CASTLE GARDEN GATES

No right-minded citizen o the
account of what took last Friday Youngstown Ohio with
mingled feelings indignation alarm which ndig
nation easily first and foremost
The employees of two large steel manufacturing had
struck week previously demand for increase from
10 IL 20 cents hour The employers offered % CENTS which
refused enough
help keep the works After considerable trouble dur
the day. the time the day shift left work Friday evening
crowd of thousand strikers their friends assembled
entrance of the Tube mills and stoned the departing workmen and
the private police who protection This
veoped into battle in which firearms used and hun
bred less injured Two dead
two various hospitals The mob then began firing the
setting the torch first clothing and then ewey quick
followed by by breaking ootng promscu
ouy all directions including the Young
town postoce For hours this nzed mob rushed through
the streets burning and loog Unfortunately destroying the pub
lie lighting plant leaving of families homeless and causing
property loss estimated $5O0OO0; little of which falls
the mill owners
OF course militia arrived during night, up this
writing further rotng has taken place. but the community feels
that is standing volcano liable fury my
moment In the meantime the works closed and the children
of the who willing work well the children of the
strikers liable 20 suffer hunger
Do ask how such things possible in free prosperous
enlightened This neither pros
enlightened Could you lowered above the wings
OF Bird IN all that voey OF talk and mprecatlon there would
have been hardly single word of understandable English
crowd of foreigners of low ensaved by vnal
enlightened
of anarchistic teachingl
The question original strikers
reasonable otherwise has nothing do with the here
The laborng Individually collectively in unions
has perfect right demand what he pea for the
of day hour and if compliance with such demands be
made he has the unquesoned right refuse worko strike
you will But when the aborng either organized
ganized attempts decree that other who have
in the world potential days works. shall not sell them for
less than that fixed for himself shall take the
work he has thrown down. and enforce that decree by violence
he attempts tyranny monopoly that bad
that charged the dcredt of the capitalist employer
The last made simple fundamental
require either repetition application The pertinent
question is what do about tY 1t is stated that out of fiji
thousand population in East Youngstown where this duc
place only four hundred voters; local
with the United States district attorney
if these foreign murderers fbug be legally
ported and sent back to their homes Central Europe where they
would doubtless get the fighting they needed This sounds WELL
but only scotcng the snake has been proud boast that
the gates of Castle Garden inward and to them
outward long enough let few thousands of undesabs
from Youngstown Ohio through might sentimental
but little else The plain fact that both the emigration and the
naturalization laws of this country need revision and amendment
In just what and the problem of the
is