El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-23
Be Slow To Strike
tBY H. ). H.

The shpbuilders the coal miners the copper miners,
the railway operatives the steel workers and all other
branches Of labor ought TO take cognzanee that TINS
time strike for anything but wage advances IN
pcatveIv needed and that there should strike
wage raises until every available means TO secure II
and Just wages from employers by other than stng
exhausted Also they should be very sure that
their wage requirements fair and moderate such as the
employer grant without bankrupng his business or
falling down his contracts There is reason Why en-
plOyeTs should make large profits out OF war business a.
the expense of aborers Nor the other hand should
the war crisis be oppoTtune time for labor IN
Parocay to attempt to hold up employers and the gov
eminent. Every of that kind aenates public sym
pahy without which labor movement can be successful
and strikes blow at organized labor
Just having our bitter experiences with labor
troubles the worst national history Just so England
also had hard experience and what the men at the front
wrote to their striking comrades in England should prove
Illuminating to worugmen the United States Follow
ing letter which throws light the subject and may
make many laboring think before he goes out on
strike It received by Bisbee miner from friend IN
England and had been written to English laborer by
friend IN the trenches As printed BY the Bs0ee ReVleW
it reads:
81 was sorry to hear Of the trouble you having in
England with labor Believe me Fred YOU playing in
the enemies hands by striking Nothing would suit Ger
many better than to see England in labor My sym
pathes with you your endeavor TO get more money
but if you can get enough to pay your way for heavens
sake DO YOUR BIT.
Remember that by keeping the ball rolling, you are
helping US out here in one way OF another AN WORK
ING OUT HERE FOR A PITTANCE WHICH I SHOULD
DRAWN 29 SHILLINGS SINCE I LEFT ENGLAND. I
don't mind. I doing It for end
"When we come home victorious then people can agi-
tate. But Fred from me, DO YOUR BIT Stick to your
work. know what It to stick continually at work
night and day, but think You lucky to get the work
to do
Remember It is our boys here who giving you
the privilege If the Germans could only get Calais there
would be trouble for England We have lost thousands Of
good men keeping them back.
eve know what 1t means if they beat US here But
they won't. We know what fighting for. It has
been terrific struggle You England don't know. Our
navy doing its best keep the sea open and doing
cur best TO keep England out Of danger
III you only realized what close call It has been-but
you never will You have got to be here to THOSE
MEN WHO HAVE NOT ENLISTED, IT IS UP TO THEM
TO KEEP THE FLAG FLYING-NOT TO SQUABBLE
OVER PALTRY SHILLING OR TWO WHILE MEN ARE
DYING EVERY DAY so THAT THEY MAY HAVE THE
PRIVILEGE OF WORKING AT HOME"
Let all the foregoing sink deep into the minds Of Amer
lean workmen II you consider soldiers workmen,
American troops getting board and and DOLE
day and for that they sng their lives and viii die
possibly by hundreds OF thousands, in order that he
families IN the United States may be from German
devourer and that American workngmen their families
may live and work in happiness under the protection Of
free government In the face of such unseshness indus
trial strikes in the United States supremey selfish
even traitorous almost stab the backs OF the men who
are about to take their holding back the all crush
ing German.