The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-16
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
SHIPS AND LABOR.

line fuDl1c: The strike OF carpen-
tiers employed in shipbuilding was on
ly symptomatic Of conditions in the
shipyards that call for drastic action
The carpenters have gone back to
work, smarting under the implication
cultivated by Mr.. Hurley that they
are enemies of their country who
would ruthlessly take advantage of
her necessities. But there is no as
surance that other difficulties as SER
ious will not, arise in the future, in
volving further delay. Only Mr.. Hur-
ley's' status as an employer with a
reputation for efficient management
and his standing in the business COM
munity have saved the entire ship
building situation from an. exposure
of inefficiency that would have arous-
ed justly all the popular wrath and
condemnation that certain interests
tried in vain to launch against Mr..
Baker The best evidence, for those
who have no mind for details, that
something is wrong in the manage
ment of the shipbuilding program is
the fact that the navy department,
with huge job of shipbuilding on
it's hands, has lost not a day through
labor disturbances, but was worked
in complete harmony with the car
penters' and the other unions en-
gagged in ship construction. 1t may
yet appear as an unfortunate mistake
that the entire shipping program was
not put in the hands of the navy de-
partment, where an excellent organi-
cation has shown itself capable of
great expansion without loss in eff
cheney. Officers of the carpenters or
ganization has no confidence in the
Shipping Board because they are con-
WINGED that Mr.. Hurley has been un-
able to conquer his prejudice against
dealing with employees on basis of
collective bargaining, that his preju-
dice against unions and union men,
bers shows itself in large acts and
small, SO that while the saturnalia Of
extravaganza and inefficiency at Hog
Island went uncorrected and unre-
buked, the first sign OF recalcitrance
on the part of workmen stirred him
to bring down on their heads all the
tured by references to the Tuscania
and the boys in the trenches.
THE UNORGANIZED ARE UN-
RECOGNIZED.
The Los Angeles Citizen: Non
union Labor has no representation
The above sentence is taken from
a Washington dispatch sent out by
the Associated Press under date or
ton of commission to adjust labor
controversies during the period of the
war.
When analyzed the sentence above
quoted means this: That the United
States government will do nothing for
men and women who will do nothing
for themselves. Like the Lord, Uncle
Sam helps those that help them
selves"
Eventually men and women who are
too Indifferent to their own interests
to organize will awaken to a realiza-
ton of the fact that they are being
completely ignored by everybody
even more so, were such possible, by
their employers, who fill the air with
empty mouthings about free and in
DEPENDENT labor.
It is natural to have no respect for
self. The same rule Of reasoning ap-
plies to a lack Of interest in the well
fare of a workingman who has no in
terest in his own welfare
The wage-earner must be blind, in
deed, who cannot see that it is impos-
sible for him to stand alone. Organ
ize!
THE ''RUSTLING CARD IN MON
TANA.
The Living Church: The labor sit
uation in Montana appears to be very
serious. The situation in the mines is
described to be as follows:
''The 'rustling card system, through
which the miners are obliged to OBJ
tain work in the mines Of one Of the
Butte companies, operates to discour-
age miners from unionizing or COM
planning against dangerous conditions
in the mines. Upon a mans applfca-
ton for work the man in charge Of