The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-28
TORRINGTON IS URGED BY PAPER
 TO BUST UNIONS
The Register, in Editorial, Takes Slam That Already Proves
 Boomerang.
Especial to The Labor News.)

SsJ Torrington, July 28-An editorial appearing in The Torrington Register last week, in which Unionism is de-
 nounced and the public called towards
 unless they fight 1t out and destroy
 the unions, has so upset this little | town that both organized and unor- ganized workers are now banding to- gether in a self-defense movement
 that will soon let The Register know
 where it gets off Even the non unionists realize that the paper Is in the grasp of Big Business, either through subsidy or advertisements
 and they can hope for no fairer deal
 than the paper now proposes to give
 the organized men. They realize also
 that once the unions are "busted" as
 the paper suggests they will then "get
 theirs" and be even worse in the dust than at present. Not even among
 some of the most anti-union business
 men did the editorial make a hit and
 the comeback that The Register is
 already experiencing is even making the editor sit up and take notice.
 Just to show how far the paper, and the interests behind it, will go the
 editorial is reprinted in full herewith. It follows:
 "Let Us Fight It Out.
 "All efforts at compromise have failed in <the railroad and mine strikes, which might have been ex- pected because there is no way to compromise facts. The demands of the strikers can not be met. They are for conditions that the great mass of American people can not grant. The strikers want wartime wages
 and working conditions They were spoiled by the false prosperity due
 to war inhations, and they live to-
 day in fools paradise. The people | can not pay wartime prices for their coal and transportation. Here is a conditions that admits of no compro-
 mise whatsoever
 "The principles involved can not be l compromised. The labor unions
 which are conducting the strike ig- 1 nore the rights of everybody else. If they had their way they would live
 in luxury and let all other Americans grovel in poverty. They would ex-
 tort the last cent from other work CTS. As selfish as the worst of their capitalist enemies these unions are | more cruel. Their consciences re-
 volt at nothing. They would freeze | and starve the people while pleading | the democracy of labor, but there is no democracy in their souls; only class greed and selfshness.
 If the American people yielded | now 1t would be only to postpone the struggle that is inevitable Already we have surrendered too much to the mine and railroad unions. The Wilson administrations were charac- terized by series of surrenders to labor union demands and each sur
 render was an invitation to another series of demands. What were called | compromises were surrenders; in fact, union labor in the character of that in the coal and transportation | industries knows no compromise. We
 might yield now to the union de mands and have a measure of indus trial peace if the people could go on paying SIG a ton for their coal and enormous freight rates on every oth-
 CT commodity they purchased but we would have to face the issue again
 in the near future
 We should fight it out now and get done with 1t and when we see the situation as it is there is no cause
 for regrets at the failure of compro-
 mise efforts There ought rather to
 be feeling of national satisfaction Arrogant unionism, the kind that would starve and freeze all but them selves, the kind that stays and burns, that recognizes no power except one
 that is as selfish and cruel as it's own IS foe of Americanism and must be fought to the last ditch.
 "1f we, fight this issue of unionism
 against every other American inter
 est to a conclusion we shall have taken the first step toward healthful
 readjustment of industry and morals from wartime extortion and excess. Until we do this we shall make no
 progress The challenge is plain. The rail and mine unions would dominate or destroy us. Individually
 the union workers outrage, slay and