The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-10-30
A DOLLAR AN HOUR.
Shall Industrial Army Have IL When
Fighters Get 81 Day?

In time of war we should have
two armies, the fighting army and
the industrial army. Each should
wear a uniform and be under abso-
wages, the hours of labor, the rules
OF living, all should be determined
by the Government.
Every man in the United States
owes his life to the country. The
manner in which his life is used,
whether in the front line in France
or in the essential industry here, is
none of his concern. Those in SUI
preme authority alone are best able
to determine how that life should be
used to the best advantage.
In the fighting army a man gets
his maintenance and S31 a month.
AS to hours of labor, a friend of
mine in the old Sixty-ninth has just
written home that he had been fight
ing two weeks, almost without rest.
Why should the fighting army have
less pay, more hours of labor and
less privileges than the industrial
army in essential industries?
A soldier overstays his leave and
becomes technically a deserter. Ii
caught and convicted he gets from
one to twenty years in a military
prison. Why should a worker IN
an essential industry be treated
differently?
How will you explain to the fight
ing army when it returns the spe-
cial privilege of the industrial army?
l know an enlisted man who
worked eight hours a day and made
$4,000 year in his business. He
now gets .about $50 a month and is
liable to work "a hours a day.
What would happen to him if he
struck, either for shorter hours or
for more pay? If this strike
at the front he would be
to firing party.
Why should worker in an essen
tial industry. shipyard or a mum
ton factory be treated differently?
A friend of mine who is personal
officer in a camp where many of the
men are expert mechanics tells me
that when he signs the payrolls he
notices that many of the men only
Set $500 month. The balance
goes for insurance. liberty bonds and
to dependents.
What will these men think of
shipyard men, 5S per cent OF whom
are Of foreign birth, demanding a
dollar an hour and double pay for
overtime?
If men in essential industries are
70 be exempted from the draft let
hem at least be enlisted in an in
lustrial army. Put uniform on
hem, have a Government board fix
heir hours of labor and their wages
me give them no privileges over the
aen who night and day are facing
he machine guns, gas bombs and
,annon of the German army.
Washington.-Draft calls for men
Who have passed their thirty-seventh |
birth anniversaries are instructed to |
,egin about March /. Plans for
the older class of new |
egistrants into camp have not been !
but the approximate date
# the first call was disclosed here by
of testimony by Pro-
-ost Marshal General Crowder be-
ore the. House Military Committee.
In all, General Crowder told the
2,399,O0O newly register
d men between Is and As will be
allied before July /. and of that
lumber more than two million will
e physically fit lighting men. The
alls for general service will be divid-
d as follows:
October, S45.O0O; November
O4, 200; December, l97.500; Janu-
ry, l47500; February, 244,OOO;
larch, April, May and June 344.-
90 each month. These men win
upply both the army and the navy
nd marine corps.
In addition 10000 men for limit
d service will be called each month.