The Glenwood post., 1919-11-15
6Cle Tets Bed Tine Stories
Current Events For the Childrsn
and Growu-ups, Too
STRIKES, WORK AND GERMANY

ST6IkES, WORK AND 08RMANY
"Now what in the world is the mat
ter with Jack this timei You look as
If you'd lost your last friend. Come
on. Brace up and tell me all about
ft.'
As usual, it was Uncle Ted, who,
seeing his nephew with face clouded
with gloom was trying to bring
tho sunshine.
"Ah, there's nothing so terribly
wrong, Uncle Ted," answered JaA.
"But I've just had another fuss with
Hermann Schwartz. He's always max
ing me sore the way he talks about
our country and thinks Germany is
about right. He doesn't seem to know
that Germany was licked to fragile
and I'm tired telling him. You sea
this morning being Saturday I went
to buy some things to eat, for mother.
1 don't like to 60 into Schwartz's
butcher shop but they have such good
meat. So I wached until I thought
Hermann was gone and then went in.
But like he always does, he had just
gone in the back Of the store and when
I got up to the counter he came rim
ming in. your country's in a fine
mess,' he said. After you beat Ger
many then you start fighting among
yourselves. If you don't watch ont
Germany will be doing more business
than the United States. Her workmen
are working long hours each day and
with lots Of goods stored away she
will very soon be ready to do business
with the world. If all the workmen
keep striking in this country there
won't be anything to SELL Well, Of
course Uncle Ted, I couldn't think of
anything mean enough to say and I
didn't want to fight because you told
me not to, 30 just told him to mind
his own business and walked ont. Now
what I'm worrying about is, was what
he aid truei"
"0 courn, jack began his I'm.
Gle, ~ he drew up chair, "Hermana
should not ak that way, NO matter
how much Of what he says may be
true. He and his father are making
their living in this country and they
should forget Germany and be loyal
Americans. But 1t so happens again,
that some Of what he says is true.
will explain the matter Is best can.
For . long time the various labor un-
ions in this country have been going
on strike. That is, if they want more
money, or shorter working hours or.
both, and their employers feel that
what they are getting is enough, they
quit work. We have had strikes in this
country for years and years but as q
rule they have been conducted quietly
and after q time the troubles were
settled and the men went back to
work - before. But during the past
year, especially since the end Of the
war, the various unions have been
striking and some of their members
who act like the bolsheviks Of Rus
II or the "Reds", as they are some
times called, have used bombs to blow
up houses; have fought on the streets
and destroyed property in general.
They are not all that way but many of
them 60 50 far as to threaten to de-
stroy our government. Right now there
are some 300 strikes going on in the
United States. A great many of the
men who work in the steel mills arc
striking and rioting. Troops had to be
called out in Gary, Indiana, a big
steel town, to protect property and the
lives of the people. The soldiers found
many Of these "Reds' there who
were trying to overthrow the govern
ment. The men who work on the piers
In New York City where the ships arc