The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-18
WANT PAY FOR EATING

WANT PAY FOR EAIlNG
The latest demand by labor unions
is that the members be paid 81 per
hour while eating their meals. At
Tonapah, Nevada, the miners are
asking So per day for six hours work,
and meal time is to be counted as
working time. 1t is such demands
as this that are turning the world
against union labor and placing labor
unions in the same category with Boil
sheviki, l. W. w. and anarchists as
enemies of the government.
AS long as agitators are permitted
to be at large and to denounce the
government and everything in Ameri-
ca, following the lead of United
States senator's, congressman and poll
ticians, just that long will we have
disrespect for America and American
institutions and hold-ups by working
men that is little short of extortion.
There is very little difference be-
tween the bandits of Mexico who cap
ture American citizens and hold them
for ransom, and the workmen who
demand So per day for six hours
work and pay for the time spent In
eating their meals. The advantage
is in favor of the Mexican bandits
who are taking some chances while
the American held-ups take none.
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The o,,t1ooL fo,- tba fo Of he
United States next year is not en-
couraging- The price of everything
he must buy has strong upward
tendency and with the. government
guarantee for wheat prices removed
he will again be at the mercy of the
speculator in grain. Being between
the laborer, with his increasing de-
mands and the profiteers in farm ma
chlnery, Irvine, sacks and everything |
a farmer uses, on one side and the |
grain Speculation on the other he will |
certainly be between the upper and |
neither millstones." Unless there is
some relief promised and guaranteed
FOR next year, with the wages of farm
A~OOA CHS tiS price VI every luuS
a farmer must buy advancing, the
wise farmer will cut down his acreage
to just what he can handle with his
own help at home and the production
of farm products, upon which the peo-
pie of this nation and many in Europe
depend for food, will be materially
reduced The farmer cannot carry
these extra burdens without help from
I. The charge has been made and free
Y circulated that the surveying of
highways in the Moscow district was
.osting % per cent. of the amount ap- I
for highway construction. 4
this story was circulated by peo- .
BE absolutely ignorant of the facts, .
t grew until one man told the writer
hat sit is supposed to cost about
(, 600 per mile to build these roads
md they are spending $4,000 per mile Z
or surveys and leaving only 81 600 !
'er mile to build the roads" The Z
7riter went to headquarters to ascer-
Ain the facts and learned that the (
urveying and engineering work in
ais district is almost done and some z
pad has been built and that less than ::
Is 900 of the $375,OO0 of bonds voted :.
as been spent. We often wonder =
ny people who are so anxious to 4
eddie such misinformation do not try
} acquaint themselves with the facts
fore they make such foolish and I'M =
ne statements
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Much of the criticism against the =
ar Department. method of selling -
odstuffs%1eft over from the vast =
my supplies, was unjust, because it :
Is not deserved. 1t appears that g
: war department had worked out
good plan for equitable distribution -
this food stuff by aportioning it to =
= $4,000 post offices. But that does =,
t excuse the delay in notifying the &.
st masters of the plan and giving :
m prices and instructions. These
re received at the post offices
nday night and the sale opened -
nday morning. That is not enough -
lie to prepare for SO extensive -.