The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-03
THE TYRANNY OF LABOR.

At Seattle $4,000 shipbuilders
struck for an increase from 1886 to
IS per day. They had never, until
the war, received such high wages
but union labor is avaricious and if it
got $40 per day would want $15. So
a strike was called and the men who
were getting higher wages than they
had ever received, laid down their
tools and quit work just at the time
when millions of soldiers were being
discharged and the great problem be-
fore the nation was to find work for
the unemployed.
Public opinion from one end of the
country to the other condemns the
strike and the government, with which
the shipyards had contract, refuses to
be held up by these high binders and
has ordered the shipbuilding program
cancelled where the laborers are de-
manding higher wages. 1t must be
remembered that the high wages that
have been paid were the result of an
agreement between the government,
the shipbuilders and the laborers after
a conference in which every phase of
the matter had been thoroughly dis
cussed and investigated.
Now, in order to force the contract
ors to pay the wages of SO per day,
which none of the workers can earn
in eight hours, the agitators who cal
led the strike have demanded that
union labor in Seattle strike in sym
pathy. Every union MAI or woman
in Seattle is asked to quit work, give
up the wages he or she is earning,
which runs from % to so per cent of
the wages the strikers were getting,
and tie up every industry in Seattle.
This means that every grocery store,
meat market, flour mill, bakery and
every business house in Seattle would
be closed and the workers would lose
more than $1,000,000 per day in
wages. The strikers have already
given up more than 100000 per day
a wages for two weeks and they
Hould have those who receive less
than half the wages the strikers have
been receiving give up their employ
aaent and remain idle.
They have asked the typographical,
a,ressmen's, bod carriers bricklayers,
bakers, cab drivers, truck drivers,
grocery clerks, and every other union
IN Seattle to declare a sympathetic
strike to force the shipbuilders to
submit to the unjust demands of the
strikers.
They asked the dairy drivers union
TO strike and shut off the milk supply
from hospitals and infants. If these
demands are complied with babies |
will die by the hundreds in Seattle |
and the men who called the strike will [
be guilty of their murder. There will l
be no street cars nor cabs running !
and people cannot get milk or gro c
reries or meat and starvation will '
'
Germany, in the palmiest days of S
Kaiser Bill, never had such au~tocracy,
such cold-blooded heartless tyranny, Il
anything so unjust as the demands of a
labor agitators. +
The government should take $4,000 k
-eturned soldiers who are to be de- e
nobilized, and put them to work in Il
of the strikers. These men II
Who have been risking their lives for Il
i per day, should be thoroughly
and put to work in the ship
ards. Let the strikers go to other Ct
ields. Give the soldiers the $685. v
he strikers now spurn and keep them tt
a the army with full authority to p
reserve order. That would quickly g
nd this bolshevik regime and bring p,
he strikers to their senses if they T
ave any.
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THE Y. M. C. A. MIDDLE. m
Newspaper columns continue to CO
.em with editorial or news stories ST
bout the Y. M. G. A. and the charges gi
lat are made against it and denied en-
' it. A recent issue of the Seattle
anday Times contained a half page
by F. w. Kellogg, publisher sh
the San Francisco Call and the San no
francisco Post, who was one of IL ton
merican editors and publishers who TIL
ere invited to become the guess I'll