The Mena weekly star., 1920-03-11
WORKERS DO NOT
 FAVOR THE REDS
Employer Lived and LabOred With Men for Seven Months--What the Wsrkingmen Are Thinking
 About, and Why.
fBg international News service.l

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 Boston. Mass, March 6.--Walking and living for seven months side by side with coal miners, mill workers, ship builders and common laborers, Whiting Williams, vice president of a Cleveland, O., steel company, found that the workers have no tendency toward anarchy or revolution. The solution of the problem of labor un- rest, he believes is for employers to look to the worker thru the eyes of his daily job, to come into a sympathetic understanding with him, to give him some comprehension of the part he plays in industry and in general pres ent the employers side of the argu- ment as skillfully and energetically as the agitators are pressing theirs.
 Describing to members of the Bos- ton Chamber of Commerce how, dressed in overalls, he started out to hnd what the American workingman is thinking, Mir. Williams told what 1t felt like to be one of the seventy-five men waiting in the hope of getting enc of two jobs which were vacant at : given time, and then to be one of the seventy three men who did not get a job.
 1t was the longest, most serious hour ever put in in my life,' he said, "and believe me, few remarks were passed about this country of ours when they did not get jobs, and every body agreed from the bottom of his heart that the worst indictment a man could make was that he stood ready to give full value in exchange for bread for his wife and children and found nowhere market for that value.
 q am perfectly sure, from all that learned in these seven months that the worker as a whole is not Bolsevistic, has no desire to become an agitator, and does not wish an overturn any more than you or I. If he ever be- comes Bolshevistic it will be the re- suit of bad strategy on our part and good saiesihanship on the part of the zgitator. As l see it, there is going on before our eyes the most crucial, most significant and most serious selling contest the world has ever seen.
 aThe most serious factor in the whole situation is this agent of Bol- shevism, who at the present moment is using better psychology and sales manship than you and l. What are we doing for the most part? We are asking who are those wops and where do they come from? And all the time these fellows of the agitator type are learning their language or pay men to talk about the things that interest these men.
 'sThere are three things that are on the mind of the working men today: The tremendous importance of the daily job, the unholy alliance between tiredness and temper, and the tremen- dous ignorance of these unskilled workers about the plans and purposes, ideals and character, the soul, of the employing company Add to these three things the feeling you find among the skilled workers-that of the cost of living is giving us a run for our money, that somebody is prof. teering, and an inability to understand why with the war more than year be- hind we still go on under war condi- lions, and you have pretty fair cross section of the mind of the wage earner today in this country"