The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-08-17
DECLARES AGAINST
HUN WAR PROF|TEERS

Our friends at home should know.
What? That we ought to find a way
to poison the Hun-loving profiteer,
who is hiding right here at home be-
hind a screen of patriotism.
It's high time that the citizens of
the Head of the Lakes district were
banding together, for in unity there
is strength, and guess we need plenty
of strength and the only way to get
it is through unity. 1t should be real
patriotic strength, not the kind that
the Hun-loving profiteers are putting
up, but the genuine stuff.
Why do we need this strength?
That is the one most interesting
question to ask. Because the work.
ing people are being held up and ac-
tually robbed in broad daylight and
made to like it.
They are being robbed of the actual
necessities of life. They have to pay
such enormous prices to exist, that
the cannot afford the actual necessi-
ties, or make any preparations for the
winter.
They can't order and pay cash for
their winters supply of coal. Why?
Because they were held up during the
summer and they are now broke or
BADLY bent" so they cannot buy an
overcoat and pay cash for it. OF
course they have to buy such things
on the installment plan.
It's always the same; the few who
control the market have a set purpose
in life and that is to keep the laborer
down, to the grindstone, no matter
what are his wages. They will al
ways fix his expenses to make him
remain slave to them and their
cause.
If you can't pay your bills at the
specified time, the Credit association
causes your name to show upon the
blacklist.
On the pay-easy term way of buy
ing, some stores has pre-war stocks
and sell them at wartime prices
a reasonable profit is not enough, they
want to hog it all.
Shame on the Hun lover that will
wilfully rob his everyday customers,
in order to make his greedy gain.
Mammon is his only god and he will
that will do such deeds should be
puA4S1l0u Ill d 1AOoI oSNS1o way dAAo
everything he has stolen in this or
any other way, be confiscated.
Why should the masses have to
stand for the exploits of the few? A
person does not have to be a radical
to think of or ask these questions.
Why should a few wholesale houses
tell us how much we should pay to
exist? You say they don't. Well, if
not, why are we paying one-half
again as much in Duluth for necessi-
ties as the people of the Twin Cities
are paying, with our transportation ia
cilities far superior to those of the
Twin Cities?
People o fthe Head Of the Lakes
district, why are you paying these
prices, say on perishable goods? They
are not a war product and all kinds
of Derishables are in abundance.
Why do you? Ask your neighbor the
cause of such high prices. Why don't
70 uinvestigate the real cause?
There is where you need unity, for
you can't do anything to stop it alone.
So I say, why don't you organize?
Why don't you attend union meeting?
Why do you sit in your lodge room
with your tongue tied? What do you
suppose you are paying lodge rent
for? And lots of other why's.
Why can't you publish your why's
broadcast? Because you haven't, as
you think, any way to do.
I want to call your attention to the
one real way-through unity; organ
ize your ideas with the ideas of 9TH
ers;attend your lodge meetings reg.
ularly; hear the opinions Of others;
publish a paper of your own, so that
copy will reach each individual reg
ularly. ~ j.
In Portland, Ore, organized labor
has q first-class daily paper. Why
not have one in this district? That is