Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-18
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 than industry can pay and feeling their power, are demanding that the. government surrender some of it's pre- negatives to them. Unless the Red" nnisleaders of labor take care. the peo- pie in their resentment will drive the pendulum up to the other extreme and bring misery. to countless thousands. Before we entered the war our bins were full, our warehouses were over flowing and we were able, to ship a great surpluSage Of our products to all parts of the world. Today, even with the high prices, our production is being restricted, our demand is ever increasing and we find our bins and | warehouses empty.
 What has brought this condition about?
 In the first place. our immigration materially decreased during the years of the war. Let it's estimate that f., GOO, 900 workers lost their lives pr were crippled or incapacitated for work in the war. It takes at least eighteen years to raise a.nan and over twenty years to bring into being and train a skilled workman. Add to this the fact l that in the war countries, the best | brains and leadership of industry died on the field of battle. or of sickness, and the seriousness of the situation is realized.
 Europe cannot produced what she | needs, even If all who were able would
 work but they in Europe will not work, do not work, are not working. I Many are striking, Ioafng.- shirking, quarreIing, fighting and when, they do work eight, hours, only do four, or at most, six hours work.
 Our country is in better shape, but l ov,5 Ioay o.fi iaar of restricted production continues we will soon join the merry chorus. and want and poverty will come at | home. There seems to be a false the
 ory prevalent -throughout= our land. | Folks seem to think that the less they do, the more they will 'have.e4Of course | the greater the production the more there is to divide. Loafing never
 raised a bush of corn or made a chair | or fed a hog. or produced anything.
 anywhere, anytime. We must pro l duce more-not less-in order to have
 more The division of the product may be just subject for dispute but
 the necessity for more production can
 not be disputed.
 Are the Workers Loafne? You ask me. Are the workers loafng2" No, not all are loafng-
 many are still doing fair days work , for a fair days pay, but the teaching
 of sabotage in the tons of Red" liter ] ature being circulated, has infected the minds of hundreds of thousands
 Sabotage is simply anything that will destroy, whether it be burning a mill
 driving spikes in logs in our woods, putting emery dust in machinery or slowing up production by loafing on the job. The Bolshevists, syndicalistS
 or Reds" teach all those methods, be-
 cause they are against a wage system
 of any kird. They believe they should
 control. own and manage all things
 They fatuously believe that by prac-
 ticing sabotage, they can destroy in
 dustry and then it will fall like a ripe
 apple into their hands.
 One Of the greatest mistakes made
 by surface thinkers is that wealth is 2
 tic thine: that it is only the dis
 tribution tbereoF that is wrone and
 that properly divided we would al
 roll in luTurv and wealth. So @believ-
 ing. the Red" leaders promulrate the
 doctrine of "as little work for as much nay as possible;' magnify the . ''boss'" profit ana engender hatred
 and antagonisn1. -Russia's Equal Pay Dream. . Tn Russia, Lenine and Trotslzy ct a tried to materialize the equal pay !, dream. All men were to receive the
 same stipend. no matter what they did. In just a little while. Lenine ,, found it did not work and could not work. He said in his ''Soviets at Work that it was necessary to, pay. the lead CTS in industrial life. 25.o00. to 100,00t rubles per year. He has also found il
 necessary, under the soviet form c.
 government, to lay down the rule tlla , workmen must work where the gov.
 ernment wants them to work: tha
 hours are fixed by the government
 that working conditions are fixed b. the government; that when worker strike, they are arrested by the gov. | i ernment and that no workman cal 2 change his job or quit his job, with :, out governmental sanction.
 Just zine telling the worknen c
 the United States that they can r11ei
 ther choose their jobs, nor quit thei
 jobs. There would be, trouble in if : teen minutes. Yet in this country
 where we are a free and self govern 8 cd people, the Reds have converte thousands to Bolshe=ism because ( the fa1sehood told and because tn . truth has not been printed in all Ian - guages in regard to Russia and Rus 5 sian conditions. I find Red" book -t everywhere. in every language. bl = who ever translated an argument fC