The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-17
PAYMENT FOR NOTHING Is--NOTHiNG
If One Man Cuts Down What He Produces He GUS Down
What the Other Man Can Get

arthur BflSDane. OHe tHiHb
men don't want IS advice,
especially when it isn't the kihd
that they want.
None the less, for organized
workingmen, here is advice from
one who has helped in many of
their fights during thirty-five
years past.
Don't act like man IN the
Valley Of Diamonds VINO got 50
excited he forgot to pick UP any
diamonds. And in your moment
of prosperity, don't act IKE the
bridegroom that got drunk. knew
nothing for twenty-four hours,
and woke up to find that some
body had kept sober and had run
away with the bride.
Money is plentiful, work Is
plentiful, wages are good and will
be better. Workers have long
looked forward to their I'm
nings." Their time has come, but
some OF them, through bad lead
ership or lack of leadership. are
making impossible the reaping OF
the harvest.
After Coal Oil Johnny struck
oil and could do anything he
liked. he went to New York,
hired whole Fifth avenue ON.
nibus, and rode In It all alone.
Then he Allied bathtub with
champagne and had bath in the
bubbles. But that didn't do him
any more good than the solitary
ride in the omnibus.
Men that want good pay now
and good pay continuing here
after should take their cham
payne by the bottle, not by the
bathtub.
Coal Oil Johnny" rs dead, did
not last long. The real oil man
is Rockefeller, who thinks, goes
carefully, and never took cham
payne bath in his life.
Workers we'll know that what
they get for a days work is what
some other worker produces in
day.
If workers cut the days work
down to nothing, or next to moth
ing, they will eventually get
nothing or next to nothing for a
OeSy . WI LOU OOh L eSCS CohAiS
thing out of nothing. See how
much you can pour from an
empty bottle.
To suggest a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
week when the country isn't yet
able to digest the forty-four-hour
weelc is simply silly.
The attitude of certain group
of magazine workers IN New
York running away from their
organization, repudiating their
leaders, asking what is literally
impossible, is worse than foolish
ness in one group. 1t Is harmful
to all workers everywhere.
Three unions make a PROPOSE
tion to cut production by SO per
cent. and increase cost by IS per
cent. The thing can't be done.
You might as well make propo-
sition to have the employers to
feed their men on peacock
tongues, the employer to provide
Z the peacocIs There are not
enough peacocks. You may want
them, but you don't get them.
1t is important that good work
should have good pay and reason
able hours now. 1t is just as inn
portant that workers should have
good pay and reasonable hours
a year from now, ten years from
now.
A man would be a fool II he
said to hen: Lay me five eggs
a day or will cut your head off"
He might cut the hens head off,
he wouldn't have any more eggs.
More than one hundred and
fifty magazines. supporting many
thousands OF workers, willing to
pay them well, promoting through
advertising the employment of
many thousands OF other work
ers, are compelled to suspend
publication, while different
branches of labor organizations
fight out their quarrels among
themselves.
Workers should learn a lesson
in leadership from the war just
ended.
War dragged four years with
different leaders in the allied
armies, and Germany, under one
leadership, made constant head
way.
Finally it occurred to some
body that it would be good idea
for the allies to adopt one policy
and let one man carry 1t out.
They chose Foch; he ruled, all
obeyed, and you know the rest.
If workers deliberately ask