The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-29
BETHLEHEM STEEL WORKERS REMAIN Loyal
ALeap in the Dark
a. EditOial.)

FTER weeks of effort on the part Of the government prevent
"A such thing England experiencing ke OF railroad operatives
which much Just strike By the admission OF the leader OF
e strikers il is an upheava merely of hours and wages
but an attack upon the whole constitution OF the country
would Be idle this distance from the scene OF action to sP
late REGARDING the probable of this frankly admitted attack
uuop the existing order But viii be clear every who gives
earnest thought that while disturbance lasts English business Will be
prosae English people will suffer body and mind and the heroic
effort that the public spirited and patriotic element OF the nation has Den
making TO recover for the empire the ground lost while the people
were at war; will be seriously retarded if indeed not elhTey de-
ated For the sake Of pushing Their interests as far as Their sat
power permits the English unions actually are running inc
I of reducing the British empire which the moral and financial
say Of Civilization during the first three years OF war to suoor-
dinate position in the society of nations
Such display of class sefhness and heedesness positively ap-
palms 1t indicates that somewhere along the line OF progress trades
nionism England lost its sou its sense of mora responsibility Wight
the power bargain they see mt has become te runs pas
sion of its leaders when the theory put 10 the t VIC
IN the case Germany But uhapply when russian mltar
ism fell carried down with pretty nearly everything that renamed OF
central Europe after five years atdon the most destructive ahG cru
t war IN history What would profit the English strikers for m
stance if they won their fight nadonaze the transportation system
and the basic and set new government II at the same nn
they started England pgng downward to the plane occupied oy P
and Portugal where national monopohe political neopee n
lack Of individual initiative have been the rule tor cenues aocal
labor leaders say their program points the opposite direction but ty
cannot prove And night there the most sinister aspect OIL h pfoes
which has suddenly been revealed to an amazed world
Most of these leaders, upon whose word the labor
seem to be hanging opponsts OF the worst Dsauslsu
with existing conditions and unwilling to help work out better ones N M
oy ay real progress made they adopt policy OF mconoau
and anarchy and auou that out of social industrial and imam
ciaI wreck better world would result Doubde %eubu @ not tor
this generation and perhaps not for the next one SNzan0n many
ers from the crash Of Rones imperial structure but only after
log interval and travail And BY the tune equilibrium was
tored the center Of world power shifted long distance and new
people were dominant the radicals thought to such matters
they are careful to keep people they from finding out
bort oyerty The natural result the smashing the economic
fabric Of the people along the the pressure Of The un
CIVILIZED Bordes Of the north the DARK Age
Poverty Will do again if gets The opportunity And poverty he
coosy Of the policy which the English trades uonis admit they
have adopted. III.
English railway strike It IS but calm reasoning from to effect
the light Of history There probably will be no sudden chans ne
nt strike may be settled with compromise Of some sort England
nav continue to mudds along for decades But that the d
recton which travelling and the present strike lost or won w
hasten the progress y,
here where labor leaders although they have not yet come o Inc
s. may b Lightly 5.. u.sd 5.ad N IL. s
pp r, for M mansen of The railroads. the policy worked
United Mine Worker. il cleveland (, s. ,f,d S carefully
cons understandings and common purpose between the radicals OF
England and the radicals of the United StatesP