The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-08

When the steel corporation can come to the people
OF Minnesota with clean hands. then, and not until
the will it be entitled to the moral support OF the
peolle of this state and which they now seek
And lest we forget. Every man. whether he be an
american striker whether he be of these for-
egners whom the steel trust has brought to this
try i attempt to keep wages down to the bare point
q subsistence is entitled to rights and the
ntfon and enjoyment of these rights not be de-
MED him. even in the heat of controversy in the
midst of attempts the part the "kept' press to
befeg the issues and ignore the truth. -.
I'VE believe the Mesaba Ore puts the thing in nut
shell in editorial in that paper week. The Ore
this to say: 49,. -
.:There of us in sympathy with the Indus
trial Workers of the World organization or its fanaticai
leaders, but in sympathy with the working peo-
pie who strike for better wages, and we hope
there will turn of affairs that will give them that
which they deserve. ...-
"But there is little likelihood of their ever getting
through any undertaking inaugurated and carried
by the Workers raners The history of that outfit is
one OF raw graftng misrepresentation destruction
to the benefit only Of the agitators and sesed labor
leaders.
Take look at things and you will readily under
stand the opening left by the mining companies the
entrance of the Industrial Workers of the World
1eeches. "
Last year the earnings of the United States Steel
corporation reported at hundred and thirty
million dollars Qet that soak in just moment) and
Will uOy sum Sa1ely tucked In Its capacOuS
jeans the corporation raised the pay of its
1aborers the munficent of ten cents day-and
the praised the action the SKIES but
never ntmaed that the raise' the direct result
OF the Youngstown revolt.
e with the raise of ten cents day in wages came
better than ten cent increase in the living
(and dying-though the mining company gunner have
handed out several inexpensive doses since the
unpeasantness began) and the aborer today is
off than he before the United States Steel
on made its much-heralded "voluntary Increase in
the wage scale.
The corporation earnings for this year will likely
double that of last and yet the corporation refuses
evena 1.-THE of its great wealth to the creates
1.-THE man with nothing but his labor sell.
The workers Of the mining regions have righteous
grievance and It is particularly they did not
find leaders that would be position to their
fairly to the employer and understandngy to the
public.
"The present strike will fail because of it's leader
ship, and the only profit will go skalawags that
prey upon the ignorance and gublity of the laborer
With the failure of the strike the mining company slogan
will be, we've got you now,' and they will go
moested with the grinding process that will add mil
lions to their yearly earnings
"But the sympathy of the people is with the men,
and there will come day when they will understand
that there are labor organizations that and will
bring them the relief they justly seeking. ,
"There will not be much noise, SO much high
explosive language but the good will them"