The Washington times., 1918-05-29

VVhen no man can Work."-St lE5
This is an editorial of advice to workingmen. It is
written by who has taken the advice given here having
worked for hrtyfVe years. not day in years
OF payroll not complete month Of vacation In thirty
hVe years-except one-in the hospital
WOrmen Of the United States use your time well your
intelligence and your strength NOW For this the golden
time of high pay and plenty of wOrk. AND DIFFERENT TIME
Is COMING.
Every day that you work now with honest industry,
combining reasonable overtime work and economy will help
to make you free from worry the actual want that may come
In a little while-after this war ends.
The man with easy come easy CO. for his motto will
hate himself and his motto before very long.
out their blood nations are pouring out their money
Every is worth for his labor twice what he was
before murder became the worlds occupation
There situation wanted advertisements in the
newspapers. Everything is "Help Wanted"
It will not be so when this is
Workers, remember that when the ends THE AM
MUNITIoN FACTORIES WILL DISCHARGE THEIR
PEOPLE.
COME FROM THE ARMIES, looking for jobs
When the ends manufacturers and business in
Europe will be employing millions of men released from the
tbe rs @ oE% N 7T %8 WoRREBs Il 5 HFRE Err M TH
UNITED STATES.
These the days of bright sunshine the golden days
the Bg Pay days. with the double pay for overtime days
Take advantage of these sunny the raHstorH coming
In great shpyard this writer recently investigated
conditions The very cheerful They get for eight
hours work a weekday twice much they got
before they work Saturday afternoons or Sunday they
earn on Sunday FOUR TIMES AS MUCH as they ever
earned in day of their life before.
Thousands Of these shpyard workers believe they have
discovered what they call "a great scheme"
They take of two week days for dleness and work on
Sunday
During days in the week they do nothing they zen
On Sunday they work. and being paid double, they make
much from that day they could have by working
on the two days spent in idleness.
young man. questioned as to the wisdom of this course
new 9dp 1Uch in nv news
thought there WAS much money. In five days week
including Sunday make three four times much
made my life before need the two days that take
of to spend the money that earn on five days.
That young man will remember that in days to come
time is coming when workman will need two whole
days to spend what he is able to earn in five.
Many workers, including the young and energetic say
quite sOlemnly II mustn't oVerwork myself mustn't
danger my health
Slaves have been driven death including sweatshop slaves
But what does because he wants to- thinks he ought
to, does him no harm.
The paupers field is inhabited by men killed by what
they did between jobs not killed by the same
is true of nearly all the graveyards
This country has the right demand that every man
should produce all that he
If who works only five days week, knowing that
his brothers rskng their lives in France and knowing
that those men are responsible for the big wages THAT
MAN Is A COWARD.
A man who refuses to do the best in him when his
country needs work is bad citizen bad American and
lying will change that fact.
n ulau I1aI las CuuuIen depending upon who
promised to take Of the woman he has married and who
fails to work. LIKE MAN during this golden harvest is
no man at all
And addition the man who does not today take ad
vantage of circumstances WORK A FULL DAY WORK
SEVEN DAYS IF NECESSARY, AND SAVE. IS MORE
THAN A BAD CITIZEN, MORE THAN A COWARD-HEt
IS FOOL
He may not like to have that said but none the less it is
something that needs saying.
Do you know why private employers are paying these
high wage8?-they paying those wages because THEY
CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES
They paying to little boy much as they paid
TWO full grown men, not long ago, BECAUSE THEY MUST
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