The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
WOMEN IN THE FACTORIES.

The Public: Women may seek es-
cape from unlovely home life in $500
a day and Independence. But it is
an escape into life of perversion,
and only by regarding it so shall our
femlnists guide us Alright. And even
this comparative independence is a
thing of the moment. For the war
merely fastened tendency already
inexorably under way. Industrialism
had begun to feed women into it's
hopper before this war came upon
US, and it is not likely that they will
ever be. released until industrialism
as it exists today is smashed. While
the war lasts women newly indicted
into industry may feel that their hori-
IONS have been widened. But with
the homecoming of the men they
will discover that they are merely
hopelessly involved in scramble for
Jobs in a labor market which they
themselves have glutted.
Men and women alike are bound to
TIE wheel of industrialsnl. And they
must join forces if they are to regain
social order in which each can per-
form his rightful function. Needless
to say, this involves such radical
economic changes as will make 1t
impossible for one man or a few
men to control the opportunities of
their fellows to win decent livings.
and so to build up great fortunes and
great arbitrary power at the expense
OF those who produce wealth. The
ways to accomplish such freeing of
society are becoming clearer every
day. The need of it if we are to
save our civilization is becoming
every day more apparent. How can
any woman withhold her interest
and her support? Just now we are
menaced by the Hun. But we are
as truly and as terribly menaced by
an economic regime that holds moth
ing sacred, that rapidly before our
eyes is breaking down every founda-
ton on which the happiness and WE'LL
being of our people rests.
FIGHTING UNIONISM COSTLY.
Minnesota Union Advocate: Hear!
Hear! The cat is out of the bag at
last. The Twin City Rapid Transit
company, by admission Of it's peevish
shoolboy president, Horace Lowry, is
on the bum. He declares that it
1A1uSI ScL 1llOio IlOuGy Ill INC way OF
car fares from the public it has so
shamefully abused or go into the
hands of a receiver. BY all means
let it go there, say hosts of the peo-
pie.
No receiver could possibly give the
public raWer deals than Lowry has
given them. AS for that intellectual
midget, perhaps he has learned a
lesson, and perhaps he is incapable
of learning any. He has played with
fire and been badly burned by it. Like
the renowned king Of France, he
marched up the hill in his controver-
sy with his union employees, and then
marched down again. He put the
men out, and to the present time has
been able to keep them out. That is
true. But he has also put his COM
pany out of business, if his own state
men. is correct. 1t has cost the COM
pany a lot of money to fight organ
lied labor, and now the company's
head is wailiRg over the losses he has
compelled it to suffer by his insen-
safe obstinacy.
He has placed himself among the
valiant knights who boldly war on
eternal justice and right and has
shared the fate of the worst of them.
MANY, have triumphed and many
have failed, and some have died slain
by the truth they assailed." 1t looks
as if Horace Lowry has found his
place among the slain.
ANOTHER BIG BUNCO GAME.
The Missouri Trades Unionist: All
o+1, h,,, &c hoimp nff
on union labor by bunch of cow
ards who are afraid to sign their
names, but who are n1asquerading un-
der the high sounding name of La
boris Emergency Liberty league, and
it's headquarters is reported as. being
in Washington, D. c.
Organized labor should pay no at
tention to this gang of defenders of
the whiskey makers and booze ped
dlers who seek to use labor and pre-
judice them in the consideration of
the nation wide prohibition amend
ment fight.
The officers of the A. F. of l..
should send out a warning to the
unions to pay no attention to the ly-
ing statements and Misrepresentation
! of the so-called Labor Emergency
! Liberty league and warn them against
this attempt of the whiskey ring OF
/ the country to use organized labor
| for it's own benefit while at the same
! time every dstillery in the country is
| fighting organized labor in every way
within its power.
DARING HEROISM.
! The Milwaukee Leader: Down in
Kansas a bed-ridden invalid 80 years
| of age, suspected-no doubt unjustly
of disloyalty, was compelled by.
mob to kiss the flag.
Such deeds of daring heroism com
mand the rapt admiration of all lib
erty loving men and women.
The nation is safe so long as it has
such noble defenders. -.
The lingo press should receive the
heartfelt gratitude of all the people
for having, by it's sublime and disin'
terested appeals to hatred, aroused
such exalted patriotism and magnifl-
cent courage in the hearts of it's fol-
! lowers.
| HOW 1T IS DONE NOW. :
| Levangs Lanesboro Weekly: Be-
! fore the war-When an eVil-mindee
man or woman desired to harm some