The Coconino sun., 1921-05-13
A GOOD SOLUTION OF LABOR TROUBLES


 to the cooperative plan in tackling the high cost of living and the plan worked out a couple of years ago in buying up the stock of a com pany in Pittsburg to compel the company to comply with the demands of the union, are in reality the biggest and best ideas union labor has ever advanced for the settlement of the labor question.
 The railroad unions could own and control the railroads if they would buy up bonds and consolidate their voting power; the laboring men could compete in the same way with any other institution in the world along the same lines.
 The whole people are and would be behind just such scheme, for then they would know that the individual worker was working to pro- duce results and was not in favor of wrecking the property to spite the public, or some one else they happened to have it in for.
 Wrecking the property, stealing from the company and loafing on the job would all be done away with if the workers would invest in the property. Then they would want the in- vestment to pay dividends and they would not feel that anything to "job' the company was benefiting them.
 We hope the idea develops into actual prac- tice, for it will bring results, results the whole general public will applaud and help along with the feeling that they are only helping them selves at the same time-a real benefit to soci- ety in general.
 The amusing thing about it is that within few years at the most, the very men who are making things miserable now with the idea they are helping the Tailoring men" could own the whole works with the money and loss of time they are now putting in making the lead CTS happy and we'll satisfied with the job of wrecking anything some one happened to want to do to improve conditions.
 It will probobly be hard job to reverse things and get the Headers to even consider such thing as helping to build up and have ,o 4ba h,,ilA nm tators would be out of a job and the men so contented with knowing they were building up things for themselves, that they wouldn't pay assessments to the bunch of teaches who have held them down for the past ten years or more.
 The second amusing thing is that while beat ing the men whom they believe should be beat in the big corporations, they would be beating the same sort of gang in their own unions. The public is well willing to believe that both the unions and the corporations have the same "gangs" who need drastic treatment, but there is no sense in helping the unions do the same things the corporation gang is doing :.
 It may take some time for this kind of dope to sink in and produce results, but the time is coming when the same fellows will look back and wonder how they could have been made such bunch of suckers.
 Soak The Sun and abuse it with the best of your limited ability, but time will tell that at tempted domination by force will never prevail in the United States and the brightest idea that union labor has yet brought forth is the idea of going into the game of production as partner Not attempting to control the game by preventing production and starving people out. In the early years every man was privileged to walk into your cabin and eat his fill of what grub you chanced to have but there was a day of reckoning for the despoiler who ate what he wanted and deliberately destroyed the rest, or took it away.
 The same conditions prevail today and the unions are making the mistake of their lives in believing that they can make success with out helping to produce-but helping to despoi.
 It is the old story with the radical element of the unions--you would think there were millions of frogs in the pond to hear the blatant bellerer tell his story, but when you get right down to brass tacks, there are more honest workmen in this country and men willing to play the game according to honest rules, than there are men who believe their main purpose in life is to get through cheap by assessing the other fellow and making him say he likes to do their dirty work for them.
 We are willing to lock horns with any of this element in Flagstaff and may be able to tell this same element how long they have worked in one place. why they, left the last town and what good, if any, they have been to their families or friends where they came from.
 Mildewed Mildred says she notices promi- nent people advising other people to buy more cotton, thus help that industry and believes