Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-07-08
SOME OF THE CASES or
UNREST As sCEN ~ \
RELIGIOUS PUBLICATION

There MAS time when /, vas !
statutory efeaae 10 increase werk
lagmans wages above eertaig
amount when weYkingman asal1
be put in Jail Tor ewiag a sserekeepel
ten cents. and when good mechanic
received but sfts cents day. an
could buy hut little more for the ntis
cents than he can buy today rimp;
have changed
The war acted AZ tenie 20 wage
earnere all seser the world rhe,
we're led 10 believe that the VAR was
their war. fought in their hehalf. nj
their expense. and with their hodie.
In the front line trenches. protecting
the civilization that was Al stake
They we're encouraged to helieys thai
after the war labor would no longer
be treated as a commodity, 10 be en-
gagged az low ~ possible and worked
as many hours as possible. they We're
assured that His Business would SEE
TO II that the Golden Rule wapld he
applied to those who had saved their
neoks
President Wilson said that afte,
the war sThere must he genuine
democratisation OF industry, based an
a full recognition OF the right OF those
who work, In whatever rank. to par
tleipate In some organic way tn every
decision which directly Affects their
welfare or the part they are To play
| In industry or course. nothing was
changed: there WAS no more demec
rae, than before The war; the men
have been gradually dropped frem the
payrolls and their wages reduced
The steel trust raised wages eight
times during the war, IN an effort 10
keep the wages of the men on q par
with the eyerris,ug coat OF living =
difficult Job The workers In that
industry made an effort to deal with
Mr.. Gary, It's president. through the
medium OF q labor leader who viewed
the twelye,hour day and the seven
day week MS q thing ahhorrent Judge
Gary would have nothing to do with
| him and was cheered 10 thu echo b,
fifteen hundred members OF the Amer
lican Iron and Steel Institute when hs
declared his determination TO run hii
great business In his own way ThS
inhuman hours of work still preyni.
| hut the wages are coming down
Nails are still ton cents a pound
which Ia twice what they ought ia ba
There afe three hundred Thousand
lmen on the steel trusts payroila. ans
hhese men could easily do In oiEh
hours all the work they do IN twelse q
In a means could he found TO convinol
them thnt II would not reduce thes
I earnihRa Or reault Ia fizslr luHE Uf e.i
ploymnut Az It IL there Ia n wei
settled code ananng them to do ahosi
as littin as they conveniently can, Til
pame conditions are to be found I
many other industries,
After the war II was difficult for th
soldiers to get back at their old tasks
As buslnoga gets better and better
organized workmcn find less and lea
OF interest In their work and find tn
tasks moro and more monotonous
1 Standardiging IL essential 10 engbl
quantity production at low Gust. bu
Iit IL unpopular with the workers AM
n fruitful cause OF sirlkes. The strik,
may have something eise as it's pre-
Itext. but the chance 10 get away iron
n monotonoua task for q few days Il
one that is very abreenbie Co man,
workers. The unrest was greatest II
the smaller cities.
There were others than factor
workers who were dissatisfied. Col
lage professors were In the same class
| II 1t were not such serious matter
one would be almost tempted To smile
al the Information RraYely set befors
the Association of American Colleges
| by Or George l.. Mcintosh. professor
Of Wabash College. whom he said
"A great deal OF the spirit of un
rest and expressions Of radicaIlsm
through the country might never have
existed II people bad seen TO II thai
teachers In schools and colleges were
given reasonable salariess
The unrest has been az great al
greater In England than IN America
Few can estimate the terrible blow
that England received during the
war. The workers are better organ
ized and more determined there thar
anywhere else in the world. For q
year past the workers In Great Brit
ain have been limiting output. boliev
| ing II the only way that loss of EN-
ployment could be STAYED offs and tbs
manufacturers have been friendly &c
the idea because II seemed TO then
the only way that they could main
| tain prices Lord Leyerhulme, ons
OF England's selfmade men, and 9
truly great man. has proposed higher
speeds at the factory, and more hours
OF leisure Cor the workers. as a eurs
for unrest In his own great soaT
business he has demonstrated thai
six hours is sufficient for a day''
work
II Is less than year since tht
French government made a practice
Of closing all the hotels and rostaur
ants early in the evening by curfew
law, so that the workers would not
be greeted with the spectacle OF the
new rich going home in their aut0mo
biles at the same hour that the work
ers were rising TO go about their daily