Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-12
WORK MORE; TALK LESS

A~@S S~A A~s 0NAaAAAS~ IAS AS
spirit Of an article written by ". a. Appleton. a man so
eminent as a trades unionist that he was elected president
Of the International Federation OF Trade Unions at the
recent meeting of that organization at Amsterdam, Hol-
land. The article is written primarily for British read
ers, and the figures and many of the facts which It cites
are Of especial Interest to them. But the main principles
which It enunciates are of worldwide application, and
they have a very direct bearing on conditions which exist
in the United States today. Among other pertinent things
which Mr.. Appleton Gays are tbs following:
The few men who frishten the goverpneat and mis-
lead labor and through isbor the whole empire, start
their esrnpaign with many advantages. They have, in
The main. to deal with AZ unthinkinz proletaFiat. They
may enrich their promises with rhetorscss choicest ornA-
on formulate. They have no resgengbility. They usually
suffer from moral obliquity and constructive paralysis.
TO demand rather than to provide is their meter. The
consequences OF these demands ere either beyond their
Intelligence or without influence upon their eoasciences.
They will chesrfuily adept and pronulsete every panaeea
OF the aneients or the Hoderns, and Just rs cheerfully
discard and forget them. Whoever dies they live; Who
ever fails they are triumphant.
1T is no Use anaiyzins intentions. A nation faced
With stransulation can only dasl with effects ana the
effects Of the propaganda which these reyolutionaries
have fathered are eliminating in disaster.
1.-THE friends Of the men really RESPONSIBLE for the
'E- HSe~ w" S~ ~ II 1NC
docks may argue that all of them are altruists, but to the
average man it seems very much az if their aitruism was
for abroad and not for home. Whatever their inten tons.
the fact remains that they have brought English indus
try into perilous circumstances and British vorkmen to
the certainty Of grave suffering and possibly starvation.
Faced with q restriction of output of coal and an
inefhcient and costly system Of railways, fased daily with
sporadic strikes, what will the government do? What
Will the nation do: The answer to the first question is
easier to find than that OF the second. The xeyernment
WHY do what it has been doing since Mr.. Asauith gave
his fatuous advice to follow prices with WAGES. It will
temporize in the Micawbean hope OF something turning
up.
Salvation lies now, a. always; with the nation. Cpon
the manner in which it faces the situation everything
depends. Each individual must accept his own share Of
responsibility and perform his own task.
The flooding OF mines and the cessation Of work
on railways destroys wealth and rots food. II is useless
to talk of taxing wealth which chicanery ana folly have
DESTROYED, OF Of enjoying food which unrsasoninx rail-
way man have left to perish. Every man and woman
and child in Britain will have to pay for the past and
current weeks foliies, and the poorest viii pay most, be-
cause they will pay in actual suffering, while the well
paid VIII only incur the disadvantages Of straitened cir
curasta nces9' ~. "