The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-11-15

matter with Jack this umeI you
look as IL you lost your last friend.
Come on! Brace up and tell me all
about It."
AS usual Il was Uncle Ted who,
seeing his nephew with a face cloud
cd with gloom was trying to bring
back the sunshine.
"Ah, there's nothing so terribly
wrong Uncle Ted" answered Jack.
But I've just had another fuss
with Herman Schwartz. lie Is al
ways making 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 Of
telling him You see this morning
being Saturday I went to buy some
things to eat for mother. don't
like to 20 into Schwartz's butcher
shop but they have sue good meat.
SO watced until | thought Herman
was gone and then went in. But
like he always does he had just gone
in the back of the store and when 1
got up to the counter he came run
ming in Your country's in fine
mess, he said. After 70 bueat Ger
many you start fighting among your
selves. If you don't watch out Ger
many will be doing more business
than the United states. Her work
men are working long hours each
day and with lots OF goods stored
away she viii very soon be ready
to do business with the world. u
all the wofRmen keep striking in
this country there won't be anything
to SELL Well. of course Uncle Ted,
cOuluH tllhh VI dhy thohb H'""
enough to say and | didn't want TO
fight because you told me not to, so
/ Just told him to mind his own
business and walked out. Now what
I'm worrying about is, was what he
said true?"
"of course. Jack" began his UNI
Gle, as he drew up chair, Herman
should not talk that way, no matter
how much what says may be
true. He and is father are making
their living in this country and they
should forget Germany and be loyal
Americans. But IL so happens again
that some of what he says Is true.
will explain the matter as best
can For long time the ysrieSs La
Dor unions nthis couniry have been
going on strike. Fs6at is. IL they
~
want more m0Sey or shorter working
hours OF ts6th, and their employers
ieeS that what they are getting Is
enough. tey quit work We ave
had strikes in this country for years
an dyears but as a rule they have
been conducted quietly and after
time the troubles we're settled ana
the men went back to work as be-
fore. But during the past year. es-
pecially since the end of the war. the
various unions have been striking
and some of their members who act
like the bolshevlks of Russia or the
Reds, as they are sometimes called
haze vused bombs TO blow up houses;
have fought on the streets and de-
stroyed property in general. They
are not al THAT way but many OF
them go so far as to threaten to
destroy ourgovernment. Right now
there are ONE 800 strikes going on
in the United states A great many
OF the men who work in the steel
mills are striking and rioting. Troops
had to be called out in Gary, India
ma, big steel town. to protect pro
perty and the lives of the people
The soldiers found many OF these
Reds there who were trying to ov
trthrow the government The mel
who work on the piers in New Yorl
city where the sips are unloaded an'
oladed are on strike. That mean
tying up the food that is coming am
going. And so II is thecountry oV
err. The laboring men are gettin
bigger wages and shorter hours tina