The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-11-10
TOMORROW AN IMPORTANT DAY

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TOMORROW AN IMPORTANT DAY
Tomorrow, the first anniversary of
the signing of the armistice which
ended the great war, is to be an i'm
portant day in the United States. At
Indianapolis will occur what may de-
eide the fate of the United States.
The fight between the American peo-
pie and organized labor in the coal
mines, backed by the anarchists, boil
shevists, l. w. w. and other disloyal
elements that make no secret of their
desire to overthrow this government
will reach a show down at 10 o'clock
tomorrow.
The men who called an illegal strike
not against the owners of the coal
mines, but against the American peo-
pie, innocent men, women and children
who will be made to suffer, have been
ordered to cancel that strike order and
issue an order calling it off in the
presence of Judge Anderson at In
dianapolis at 10 o'clock tomorrow.
The miners union officers are sullen.
They intimate they will not obey the
order and that if they do issue the
order cancelling the strike it will not
be obeyed by the miners.
Then it will be up to the govern
ment (and that means you and me) to
act. We must decide whether a few
coal miners, because they are or
ganized, can defy the courts that pro-
tect us and onr homes and bring suf-
fering and loss upon US. This is no
strike. 1t is revolution. Whenever a
set of men can demand that they work
only six hours a day and only five
days a week and get an average of
something like $12 a day, or more
than So per hour, and make that de-
mand "stick" it is time for the COM
mon people, those who are not or
ganized but are an overwhelming ma
jority, to arise in our might and show
these men that the United States,
which whipped Germany and is today
the greatest nation on earth, can
and will protect it's own people.
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SIGHTING THE RED CROSS
Moscow citizens will be ashamed
when the report goes out from this
town that less than % per cent of
the Red Cross members renewed their
membership in that great organiza-
But it looks today like that is
report that will be Sent from Mos
cow. sThe Greatest Mother in the
World" is being rejected by Moscow
who either lack the heart or
the dollar necessary to renew mem
bership.
Every afternoon two Moscow wom-
IN have sat in the post office to ac-
,ept the membership renewal price of
Il and give a membership card in the
greatest organization for good the
world has ever known. With more
han five thousand men, women and
in Moscow less than one in
o have renewed. Last year Moscow
lad 1000 Red Gross members. This
rear, SO far, 400 have renewed. This
S the last and only drive that will be
made by the Red Cross for 1920.
Every dollar is needed and every dol
ar paid in will be used for helping the
leedy. There has never been a
barge of graft o. profiteering or
raud connected with the Red Cross, |
nd yet only about one person in 10
) willing to give a dollar to help
long this great work.
1t was thought that one "drive"
ould be put over in Moscow without
The Red Cross having
one such a grand work for our
Dldiers while in the wal and for
leir relatives and friends and widows
nd orphans if they were killed, was
as the one drive to which peo-
would contribute without being
egged to do SO. That estimate of
ioscow's people was a mistaken one.
has been demonstrated that about
ne out of 10 have to be solicited,
'gged or slammed into giving. That \
not a record of which we feel
oud when it goes out. Moscow peo-
e have until tomorrow (Tuesday)