Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-01-13
F IT WERE NOT so TRAGIC it would be funny-the

F 1T WE'RE NOT so TRAGIC it would be funny-thc
explanations given of the East Youngstown outbreak
Every newspaper gives every except the right
Some blame it the fact that the men are foreigners
without explaining why they do not do these things
their own foreign countries Some blame WHISKEY,
large capital letters without explaining the s'Outrage
committed against the Armetians by the Turks who d.
not drink whiskey. One stockntrade the per
among them. y
So, usual the Majority will have opposition to
telling the truth about it.
East Youngstown and Struthers lies on either side of
the Mahoning river, about half dozen miles below
Youngstown East Youngstown is geographically like
Benwood with the railroads and the mill beside the river
and one long street between the mill and the hill About
$1,000 people live there almost all Of whom are foreigners
there being but 400 voters among them. All import
ed by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company to take
the places Of Americans, at lower wages Systematically
they were kept in ignorance prevented from becoming
Americans, or banding themselves together The
pany has always treated them CATTLE and instead of
treating with them in any manner used every effort
known to their financially hardened minds to keep them
in subsection and crush them ever more and more
Some months ago Anton Johannsen, in article in
the Majority described the conditions there-how the
men, exhausted after twelve hours of slave driving in the
mills rushed into the nearest saloon and emptied COB
let of wskey and two large schooners Of beer He also
showed that there crippes to the population
there than in Europe today. Nobody but despsed La
Dor agitator in these conditions smouldering vol
caho; the company went bndy on squeezing out of the
life blood OF these and their families another cent here
and another penny there. Now when the storm breaks
they hunt for reasons!' And like the cowardly hypo-
critics they are they give every but the right
In a union mill the Of all nationaities meet to-
gether and learn the common American tongue. Soon
they think in American and grasp American ideals and
imbbe the American hopes, which, alas slow in
realizing AS their intelligence and understanding in
they analytic their conditions and suggest
for betteent They meet in conference with their
plOyers, and to man, things out They get
what they without destroying their business which is
their own livelihood They take wage reductions
when it proved to them that market conditions compel
property no murders. Not in towns where Whskey
is obtainabe granting that there is any place earth
whern it is not Obtalnable. -
The real reason for the outbreak at East Youngstown
is that the employers did not consider their employees
human beings entitled to any rights whatever The real
remedy is not to smother the fire with troops and
suppression and ignorance but to change the at
tude of the employers Instead OF teaching the vio
ence by surrounding them with armed thugs who beat
any who dares to suggest unonsm let the state and
nation see that the left free to organize and then
have the employers confer with them they confer with
their supposed competitors.
We depore violence and destruction of property, but
we are not going to join in the hypocrtca cry against
those poor devils who if they ignorant have been
made so and kept by the masters who, if they in
cned to violence have been taught by the example of
their masters.
We are inclined to believe Thomas H. Flynn when he
saws that the outbreak engineered by the company
officials who sought to depress the value of the stock
that New York capitalists could get control of it proceed
inc the proposed big merger We have received denial
from John d. Rockefeller, Jr, but have written him
1--WE would not believe you ON OATH
j. 8 PROOF OF OUR CLAIMS: there would be no
"a strike in Wheeling today among the Butchers if the
,ers would only have agreed to confer with them
these men have had union for 30 years and have ncreas
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