Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-04-23

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issue when deemed necessary.
Editor Newark Leader:
We have been criticised for not
taking the public into our confidence
through the daily press, and tell them
what is going on. We have no def
mite statement to make at this time,
but a brief resume Of the cause or
causes that brought about the trouble
between the yard men of the country
and the railroads might not be amiss.
The -Four Brotherhoods in their
negotiations with the Government in
1919 were asked by President Wilson
to give the Government ninety days
time to reduce the H. c. l.. and if at
the end of the ninety days the Gov
elnment was unable or powerIess to
make a reduction Of Fort II. Z. L.,
that we would be granted an increase
in wages. Our unspeakabe and
four-fushing AttorneyGeneral with
q fanfare of trumpets and beating OF
tom-toms advanced in the citadel of
H. C. l.. and after siege Of several
weeks captured four stragglers from
the fort who were condemned to be
slapped on the wrist. While our de-
partment of justice was infilctlng
this inhuman punishment on the four
stragglers, Congress was brewing
about fifty-seven varieties of absolute
cures for the industrial ills Of the
railroads, but our political chemists
Cummins and Esch had produced the
only guaranteed cure, which could be
used with equally good results on the
most malignant or the mildest type
of railroad industrial ills. One OF
the ingredients which makes up this
cure-all was styled conference board
in which could be ironed out any
slight differences Of opinion between
the Four Brotherhoods and the Rail
roads. that might arise while the
President was making up his mind
lust what lumber he would use to
build the other board out of, known
az the Labor Board"
The ironing board went on strike
and refused to function, and by so
doing we were deprived of a chance
tC get some of our wrinkles smoothed
out, and as we saw no signs of the
Labor Board, few yardmen took
vacation to try and locate the Labor
Board. We have located said board,
and with some assurance from them
that we will be granted a speedy
hearing and adjustment of our de-
mands, that the wheels of commerce
will again revolve and the situation
will become normal.
We will add in conclusion that we
are not asking for mere living
wage, but a competent wage, COM
mensurate with the ideals of an
American citizen We are inspired by
the Declaration of independence and
kept in line by the Stars and Stripes
and not by the foreign or un-Ameri-
canism as the department of (in)
Justice is trying to make the public
believe And if in our methods we
cause the public any inconvenience
we beg their pardon, and call their
attention to the fact that whatever
they suffer is our doom as constitu-
ents of that public, and we further
believe that if only small portion of
the condemnation labor is now re-
ceiving at the hands of the public,
was diverted into the condemnation
of our lawmakers, who enact unwork
able laws, and our courts that make
farce of workable laws, and create
from them club to club workers into
submission this labor strife would
cease. Publicity Committee,
Yardmen's Association