Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-25
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uNIONISMS SERIOUS MISTAKE

Union labor especially the coast and IN the SHIP
building trades has made grievous mistake and con-
tnues unhesatingy in its course with ~ per cenC u
those engaged in building wooden ships at Portland al
ready on strike yesterday $500 steel workers went OUT
This practically ties up all yards. One company mas
eleven ships on the ways and this is but fraction OF tne
work that is being held up If Union Labor cannot see It's
mistake we suggest perusal of yesterdays dispatches
from Portland in which among other things was this:
The strike order also included the Willamette iron
Steel Works. but only few OF the men le1t tnaC pia'
The Willamette plant is run on the open shop polcy.
Here is an object lesson Union labor VIII 90 wen 10
hood No strike was ever against public sentiment
Here is nonunion plant where the men keep on Workg
because there are paid walking delegates TO SUR up
trouble The public will be quick to notce GnaC Is Ce
nonnon men who stick their jobs and do not desert
their country in the hour of her dest need Inc pup
will bepin to do little thinking along lines 1t mas not
generally pursued, and will draw !ts own eTences run
such different conditions prevail in shops where union
ism nrevails and where it is absent 1t VIII noCce IhaC
the less unionism the industrial peace IL VIII come
to the conclusion rightly wrongly makes no d1Ierence
that unonism is contrary to the principles OF democracy
and against the public peace When that conclusion Is
reached it will be uphill job TO MAINTAIN even .ne
sembance of unionsm We do not know what the dtter
ences are between the employers and the men III Ce snip
yards for we have heard many different stories concern
ING it. 1t matters not however what tnose uerehces are
the men in the shipyards owe higher allegiance to the
union than to unonsm 1t is thelr war 1ey are sup
nosed to be assisting in fghtngand they are slackers
If they think the public either going to forgive or for
get It they have another long spell of thinking coming
At Seattle it is said $4,000 employed in the shlpyards
will 90 out within few days. They are OF course IN the
same boat with the Portland strikers AS there kel
hood Of the strike lasting month it would be good way
to settle it by simply stopping all work in the yards
There is an opportunity to make the shpbuldng IN
dustry a permanent the coast, where many men
would be employed permanently and at good wages This
opportunity the men themselves destroying This is
another of the serious mistakes they are making
Pendleton. Oregon the home of the Roundup Show,
is good town--one of the biggest small cities in the
world During the Roundup this year-and it has hap
pened every other year since the institution was founded
1.-The two newspapers of that city, the East Oregonlan
and Tribune issued special Numbers for three days that
would have reflected credit upon city of 100000 popua
ton and these editions made possible by the patron
age of the local businessmen whose advertisements filled
many pages 1t has to be that town may be quite
correctly judged by its newspapers the community that
lacks the enterprise and local patriotism to stand back
of its papers generally taking similar attitude toward
all other home industries and Institutions Pendleton is
good town and the annual Roundup is the greatest
show west of the Mississippi riverbecause both town
and show have good newspapers to boost them into public
notice If Pendeton businessmen had starved its news
papers to death the Roundup would not have had
fame as wide as the nation itself.
Senator Lewis yesterday declared Germany's reply to
the Vaticans peace note "a degrading insult to the
pope and to the United States"