South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-20
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FEBRUARY %, 1913.
UNIONISM AND SHIPBUu.DING.


Labor must eventually learn, everybody else in
the country are gradually forced learn. that
IN has something a duty perform in connection
with this war and TO perform abu+, just Wei
as capital has as capital and well the individual
has as an Individual Pres't Wilson's chastisement OF
the president the ship carpenters union: Will you
coonerate or viii you obstruct?" went directly
heart Of the thing Mr. Hutcheson the union leader,
had appealed president help settle the strike
and the above was the answer Mr.. Hutchinson
only took the hint, but the men soon ordered
back their jobs
snip building just now is government work, just
essential winning the is building.
ammunition making or men for the trenches. The
nation has railroads laid heavy hand
ON the coal mines. is interfering number of ways
for the conservation of food, and through the
revenue law has a long toward conscriptins
capital. or least the profits on both labor and
ca pitaI Labor itself yet
for q while. that it alone need not respond to the
nations needs. The next thing it knows. Uncle Sam
will be coEscriptng labor. Workinemen think
that because the nice things said recently by
Charles NJ. schwab, about the power of labor in mat
tiers government in the future, they need to get
ehesty about it so soon. that time comes it will
be surrender social and industrial Justice and
not a "bolshevik"
Possibly settlement OF the wage dispute had been
delayed but that times like these is valid
excuse fer delaying or abandoning the shpbuding
program pay the the trenches facing death
$50 a month s. $50 a day Talk about
prodteering and organized labor, and competition in
labor have their share. and when there FIVE
days OFF recently and a heatless Monday the groaus
OF labor arose almost 10 n howl. against employers
VINO couldn't wouldn't assume the whole burden o.
the vacations. "wiH you cooperate. viii YOU OBJ
struct?" $ a very good challenge for whole lot of
American workingmen. made to stand long the
lasts.
This is not saying that all American wor1ingmen
of the obstructonist brand Samuel Gompers president
OF the American Federation Labor, has been an
interchangeable worker for harmony with the govern
meut the part Of labor during the war. and almost
simultaneously with Prest wilson's message Prest
Hutcheson there to the latter another from
American Federaton executive council enuncating
principles which the carpenters union violating:
This a time when al workers must sober
" face the grave Importance of their daily
work decide Industrial matters with CON
science mindful of the world relation
act We face to with a world
crisis. still I'm a world struggle which
viii determine for the immediate future
whether principles of democratic freedom
or principles Of force shall dominate
THAT is a mere expression of solemn realization Of
the enormity Of present world struggle quite in
Keeping too with the attitude that been
hy Prest Lee Of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and Pres't Garrison the Order Railway Train
mea. Evidently too it brought Pres't Hutchinson cf
the shipbuildng carpenters his Prest
Wilson's soaring words express the popular sentiment
the carpenters should he properly paid "a wage con
sisteut with the high cost OF living, and this viii
doubt be TO. but when IL striking
~closed shop" such a Job, in times like these
an Of the outside opponents OF unonism combined
could not do the labor movement a greater injury.