The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-08
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
STRIKES THAT FAILED

SIRIkES HAL L AlLED
Portland, Astoria and Tacoma ship
wards in which strikes were called
October /, have reopened, the mel
returning at the old wages and hours
with an agreement that 10 days Will
be allowed or the old men to return
before their places are filled with
other applicants. The men have lost
more than two months wages. The
shipyards have lost that much in
time and profits and no one has been
benefited. The men return under
the old terms, wages and hours.
The striking printers of New York,
who stopped the publication of a
number of magazines, causing sew
eraI of them to move to Philadelphia,
Boston, and other cities, have return
ed to work, where they could find
employment, at the old wages, the
old hours and under the old condi-
tons. A large per cent of them were
unable to find work as the shops
where they had formerly been en-
ployed were closed or moved to other
cities. The printers lost more than
two months in wages; the publica-
tions suffered serious loss and no
one has been benefited.
The coal strike will probably be
called off Tuesday, it is announced.
The miners get a slight reduction
IA per cent, and they asked 60 per
cent with only six hours a day and
five days a week-but it will take
a long time for this increase to make
up for the time lost. In the mean
time there has been suffering and
want. Tens of thousands of men and
women who had no interest in this
strike were thrown out of employ
ment because of the lack of COAL
Railroad men, who tried to strike sew
eral times and cause suffering, loss
and misery to many, are being given
little dose of their own medicine,
for trains are being annulled and
trainmen thrown out of employment
by the shortage of coal.
The steel strike was flat failure
from the first. 1t was doomed to fail
ure and has brought nothing but loss
to the strikers, who have been out of
work for weeks and have not gained
"a single point and will not gain
single point. The steel trust is power
full enough to defy the union and it
has done SO successfully. The strik-
ers will take vote on calling the
trike off in very short time, it is
announced. In the mean time more
than 81 per cent of the strikers have
returned and the steel plants are
working.
A strike cannot succeed without |
public sympathy and the public has
not been in sympathy with single
strike called since the war began. 1t
Is encouraging to realize that de-
spite the lack of organization, the
sACneJ oiiol 3 1HlASu, Uut suoIlSSI COlu-
mon people, are still able to control
For no man or organization can sue
fight public opinion which
has an irresistible way of forming
INTO solidarity when occasion arises.
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TALK HAS NOT HELPED
yTbo C1++on,yooJ GL.o.~1
nut the significant fact that all of the
ak INDUCED in by the politicians, +,
miners and coal mine operators has
neither produced any coal nor mod ;
rated the weather
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RAISE SUBSCRIPTION TO So (
The Nezperce Herald and the Ilo j
register in their last weeks issue t
arried announcements that on and {
fter January the subscription t
rices of their newspapers will be
aised to So year. They will also
1crease their advertising rates. The
Ugh price of paper coupled with adj
ancing price Of labor has forced /
hem to advance their subscription b
nd advertising rates. t
The raise in prices by these two 9
apers is a just one, they being both I
sheets to their communities /.
nd if they are not worth So year S
le price that will be asked after jan a
ary l, they are not worth cent !;
ubscribers who stop their subscrip- d