The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-14
LABOR DISPUTES
HIT MANY TRADES
Continued from First Pd0s.

strike Several Of the big sugar ware
houses in Brooklyn already are anected.
The motion picture theatre employees
are talking strike and may quit to-day
unless their demands are granted.
Profanity no better estimate of the sit
uation can be set forth than that given
to THE Sum reporter yesterday by Mr.
I'ohm.
"It is wholly impossible to predict the
future" he said. at is almost as HARD
to make an accurate statement about
the present. We know only what the
past has produced, and II Is up to us 70
apply fhe signs OF the times to problems
as they arise The day when the iapor
leader could be called demagogue Is
gone. There was that day when the
men moved or failed to move Just as the
officers Of their International union d.
rected.
THE great trouble is that the en-
blowers have not travelled as rapidly nor
as Ear as their employees. More than
ever before the worker Is doing his own
thinking Ten years ago economies was
considered a science mastered only by
the pedagogue and the great student
To-day the average worker is student
of economies and the science that he
studies is the product OF those social and
economic changes brought to pass by
the war.
at is up to the country and every IN
dividual in the country to think and
keep on thinking"
The present universal prediction OF
labor to strike is not caused by the nigh
cost of living alone. according to other
labor leaders. Neither Is great faith 70
he placed In stories that Bolshevist and
L w. w. leaders are being imported TO
agitate labor unrest.
Use of Term "BoIshevist" Abused.
I'm the frst place." said Mr.. Bohm
yesterday, the term Bolshevist Is
abused. Almost every strike agltator is
to-day stamped Bolshevist merely be-
cause he is an agitator. AS matter oil
fact true Bolsheviki are so in the mi
nority In labor circles that their in
fiuenoe is Insignificant and certainly not
a menace. Tell the ordinary striker that
he is a Bolshevist and he'll break your
skull
Nowhere do workers need imported
leaders. To-day they are doing their
own thinking and their own organizing.
And while they do their own thinking
no one man nor small body of leaders
can control them IL the orders OF those
leaders are opposed to the intentions of
the strikers. You cannot settle the prin-
pal difficulties between labor and capital
by promises. Neither can makesnift
agreements do. We shall have to change
certain fundamentals and reestablish
the strained relations upon a founda
ton that reaches the bottom"
I1xL, 20, 70 n Ia
by a few hours association with the
striking printers. The printers represent
a splendid type OF citizenship. They are
as a whole keen readers and students OF
what they read. They know what is
going on to a greater degree than the
majority of clerks and other Office en-
ployees And whether IL Is pleasant
news to the delegates to the capital anj
labor conference in Washington or not
tie fact remains that they are laughing
at that conference and characterizing IL
as absurd.
Call. Theorizing Only fdIe Talk.
1T is as absurd" declared one of the
leaders of the printing strike yesterday,
las the steel strike hearing before the
Senate Labor Committee. If you or an.
one else can tell me how you can seat a
bunch OF big interest representatives al
the same table with a crowd of real
labor leaders and expect them to eradi-
cate their fundamental differences by
idle talk Of theories | shall quit this
strike and my union and go back t.
work satisfied that collective bargaining
Is a false creed. which 1t isn't"
There are some thousands of men ir
this country who do not know what Boil
shevism means" said another labol
leader, "and half of them are employers
Everybody who does not accede to the
conditions offered by employers is soonei
or later stamped a Bolshevist nova
days. But you can call 1t what yol
please. The fact that workers are de
handing and will gain the right to bar
gain collectively is nevertheless with Us
"Sane labor leaders do not mistak
the fact that the employer is as neces
sary as the employee and that he is a
much entitled to a fair profit on wha
he invests as the workman Is. Sane EN-
ployers, on the other hand, realize tn
same thing and are conceding the RICH
| of the workers to use the only means d
their disposal to gain their legitimat
ends
'It was the Gar who overthrow tt
Russian Imperial Government. not Il