Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-29
And Here Is What We Have

And Here Is What We Have
II is easy for anybody who cares TO
look into the things above referred
to. 10 supply himself with loads. of
unassailable proof Of what we have
briefly stated. The Maine Legislature
could have done so if il had asked
single question. But that is aside
from The question now. The thing we
are mcst interested in at this stage
created.
Here thew are. in brief: The admin
islration. at last recognizing the
danger of industrial stagnatlon. un-
endowment trade decentralization.
class bitterness and socialistic hay
making. is desperately attempting to
stimulate industrial morale by claims
that are as false as has been its own
political attitude toward fhe country.
Everybody is urged to build and
| repair and venture and invest in
| spite Of abnormal conditions. and
thus vindicate the wisdom CD II
the administration game of favor
itism, and also maintain the present
| inflated conditions until administra-
ton leaders get out from under. IS
did McAdoo and others.
But at the same moment thew arc
shouting. Invest. Construct adj
vance, every form of business ana
! industry is confronted by the fog OF
uncertainty, insecurity and possible
| chaos, and the stone wall of high
prices for all material and exorbitant
demands by unionized labor. led
largely by radical. and don't-care-a "a
rap trouble makers.
They are also confronted bv the
disturbing realiZa ton that while the
entire country. including this Won
derful l.. s. Employment Service. is
bowling about providing jobs for re-
turning soldiers. these pampered and
petted unions tied up with the Dem
ocratic vote getting machinery are
actually shutting off soldiers from
the Jobs they would take because
they, the soldiers. are not unionized.
We have in mind the case Of
kennebcc journal advertiser, a man
! with a we'll esta blished business. He
needed a helper for a certain skilled
workman. He advertised and receiv-
ed half hundred personal applica-
tons for the job Seven of these men
| came to his residence in one evening
in a pouring rain. Some We're ready
to accept any work at any price. He
hired young man that best suited
him at 81 day.
Now this same advertiser would
like to build a small house for his
own occupancy and build over a
large house and stable into tene-
ments. In the face of recent I'D
vances by local unions of carpen-
ters and painters he cannot under
take it. especially as he can hire all
the help he needs at less than one
half the union wage scale-but if he
attempted the latter the unions
would injure his business. SO he lets
it all so undone and work that some
body might have land material that
might be Sold is held up for this
year at least.
We have. by patient and quiet n
quiry, learned of many similar cases
all around US. We know that the
country is already reaping what Il
politics playing administration has
soWn.
We clip the following from an redi-
torial in Friday mornings Water
vile Sentinel:
"Watervile must do something very
shortly toward solving the housing
problem or begin to go down hill. Con-
ditiO1s never were SO bad Is they are
here this spring. Within the past week
or two at least half a dozen families