The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-09-26

contract with the state duly author
lied. by law which does not, and
could not, recognize service under two
They assumed divided al !
legiance, and they demanded that the |
public master of their first Choice |
should acknowledge overlordship of
the private master of their second
choice. This Coolidge, the servant Of
the first master, refused to allow.
They thereupon deserted their posts
of duty and yielded Boston prey tol
the horrors of the mob.
When the soldiers delivered Bos-
ton from the wolves, the strikers re-
treated from their position, hoping for
greater strength in the future. They
now demand reinstatement, and in this
pers and his federation. Here comes
the trial of strength between organ
lied labor, with its threat of huge
sympathetic strike, and the state it
self. That the state will triumph
there seems no doubt. thanks to the
courage of Coolidge. But that or
ganized labor will retire sullen and
vengeful seems equally certain, for
this will have been its first major de-
feat. Tx will consolidate for a
mightier attack which may be direct
ed against the entire nation. And un-
less that drive is crushed the Republic
will be Russianized.
Wilson at Fault
"Who is responsible for these out
rageous demands? The answer can
not be evaded. 1t is the Wilson ad-
ministration. Capital and labor had
both were at fault. But they were
more and more frequently drawing to-
gether in peaceful settlement of dis
putes, when Woodrow Wilson became
Chief Magistrate and commenced his
TRADES against capital and his politi-
cal exploitation of labor, making Mr..
Gompers his chief dupe in the pro-
lcess. "Since my. entrance into this
body, and especially since the 4th of
March, 1913, we have probably en-
acted mora class legislation than can
be found in the acts of preceding
Congresses" declared Senator Thorn
as (Dem.) in March, 1913. In Sep
TENDER, 1916, we witnessed the most
infamous deal ever recorded in this
country between the administration
and class, when the four brotherhoods
forced through the Adamson law.
Since that time, and particularly
during the war, this country has wit
messed saturnalia of government
barter with organized labor. Every
demand has been granted, no matter
| how extravagant, when made under
the threat of strike, for labor must be
coddled as political asset, and, after
| all, the peoples money it was which
footed the bills. These surrenders-
these collisions, rather-on the part
OF the administration, reacted on
private industries, and they were com
lpelled, ofttimes by the administration
itself to raise and raise again their
wage scales and to yield to Unsuitable
demands. The cause against the Hun
was repeatedly imperiledA Ship con-
struction was held up; supplies to our
soldiers were dangerously delayed.
In short, the war was made an oppor-
tunity to rob the house while the
guardians were in France, and the adj
ADMINISTRATION stood on the outside to
give warning.
Labor organizers were busy every
where plying their vocation-in gov
eminent shipyards, military reserva-
ltions. even in the departments, and
they were everywhere welcomed by
the bureaucrats. When Senator
Myers complains that federal en-
ployees are unionizing, he complains
against his own administration, be.
cause that is being done with the
knowledge, if not the approval of de-
partmcntal chiefs. and Mr. Wilson has
never publicly opposed it.
End of Constitutional Government.
"How much farther Mr.. Wilson
proposes to advance in this direction
we will have no means of ascertain
| ing until he declares himself at the
labor conference in October, but his
radical remarks and appeals to rema-
goguery in the west at this time give
little encouragement of any lasting