The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-27
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THE SHIP YARD STRIKE.

THE SHIP YARD STRIKE.
About $4,000 men employed in ship
yard work in Washington and Oregon
have struck for an increase from $685.
to So per day, with 81 per day for
assistants and Sc per day for common
laborers.
The government and the state If
Washington have just completed a
survey of the labor situation in WASH
inton and had found that there were
10000 men out of employment in that
state at the time the strike was called.
Tens of thousands of soldiers are be-
ing brought back to Camp Lewis, in
the state of Washington, and dis
charged and these will want work.
Yet, acting upon the advice of the
walking delegates" whose busin ass
it is to stir up strife, dissatisfaction
and strikes among laborers, these
men who were getting record wages,
went on strike and refused to work
for less than the wages quoted above
Shipbuilding is tied up. These idle
men have to live from their meager
savings (and the savings have been
meager because the high wages they
have been receiving induced them to
spend freely and it is predicted that
In a few weeks s'bread lines" and
free soup houses" will have to be es-
r. II n fho Il 10 in
ern Washington and western Oregon.
It would be shame to allow
returned soldier to enter the "bread
line or "soup line" but it would be
fitting that the men who struck for
higher wages and tied up the great
ship building industry when they were
getting higher wages than ever paid,
should go hungry.
These men will drift from the coast
to the interior. We may expect TO
see men who gave up jobs at $3.50
per day wages fixed by committee
the government, the la
borers and the employers) coming to
our back doors and asking for food.
The people should first demand to
know if the applicant is striker and
if he is, turn him away without giving
him anything to eat. 1t is right TO |
feed the unemployed if they could
not get work, but it would be little
short of criminal to help the men who
quit work at such wages when the
labor problem is worrying the entire
United States. Every foreigner who
struck for higher wages in the ship
yards should be deported. Every
American who struck should suffer
he pangs of hunger. Their places
should be filled with returning sol
liers who have been risking their
ives for 81 per day.
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STAR MIRROR is COMMENDED.
The Star Mirror is in receipt of the
GLOWING letter from Wesley L. Jones,
United States senator from Washing
on, commencing an editorial in a '
ecent issue of this paper. Senator
|
ows: {
~ have noted your editorial with {
eference to my alien Stacker bill. :
1ou certainly speak right from the :
boulder and / believe you express
ne sentiments of the great majority
our people
Il did not know you had gone to
[oscow. Sorry you left the state of
Washington, but hope you are getting :
long fine in your new home. You
re not so very far away from us
nyway and l hope to see you some
me before long"
Senator Jones has introduced bill .
roviding for the deportation of all :
len slackers, especially those who :
I'VE up their citizenship in the United :
,ates rather than serve in the army.
is bill is really, truly American and >,
i'll receive the hearty support Of ;,
cry senator and representative who :,
1ues the votes of the American
ople more than he values those OF
e foreign element. One can rest
sured that the representatives and M
aators who oppose this bill do SO y, w
I'M political motives and from the re
staken idea that the foreign vote or
their district is of greater value p
them than the American vote. ~, ~,
Senator Jones has also taken up a