The Washington times., 1922-08-01

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the workers emphatically, and
J. the railroad owners still MORE
emphatically, that the strike is
a threat against the entire ma
tion and must end.
He has made the railroad
men know that he means 1t,
and the strike will end. You
may write that down.
The railroad owners protest
that they must be allowed ito
punish" their men, by depriv-
ing old employees Of their
seniority rights, transferring
those rights to new men taken
on to help beat the strike.
They say they are afraid
that If they don't give senior
ity to the new men they
will not be able to get enough
men when another strike comes
along.
They needn't worry about
that. Human nature Is q
feeble thing, and there will al
ways be plenty of men to sell
out their fellows and take
their jobs if they can get
them.
As the railroad strike in the
nation approaches its end there
comes another strike in the
city of Chicago-one that will
tie up all street cars, surface
and elevated, injuring the
great city as a railroad strike
would injure the merchants.
Those that know, say the Chi
eago menace is what is called
q "labor demonstration" the
men going on strike, not that
they are dissatisfied now, but
to prevent future cuts in wages
by showing their power.
No such demonstration should
be necessary. They would not
happen if the people owned
their street cars and managed
them for their own convenience
and profit, as they should do.
You don't see such "demonstra-
tions" in the Post Office serv-
Ice.
The street car is to a city
what elevators are to a great
office building or hotel. The
owner of the building would
consider himself an idiot II he
allowed outsiders to own his
elevators, annoy his tenants
and make them walk up.
The owners of a great city
are foolish to allow outsiders
to own their street cars, ma
jority of the Owners" living a
thousand miles from Chicago.
For an example of rare cour-
age, consider the case of Father
DAILY, celebrating the mass in
st. Patrick's Cathedral in New
York. An unfortunate man,
crazed by religion, knife in
hand, rushed to the altar and
TO the feet of the priest Off
ciating.
Instead of striking the priest,
rs all feared he would do, he
slashed upon his own barred
breast the sign Of the cross
cutting deep into the flesh,
saying he wanted to give his
blood as a sacrifice.
Father DAILY quieted the poor
creature with a few words and
went on with the mass, un-
moved. That was his impor-
tant work. And THAT is dis
cipline.
Charley Wells "broke the
bank at Monte Carlo" in the
nineties. His life ends at
eighty-one in suicide in Paris.
He didn't break the bank;
, nobody ever does that. Each
gambling roulette wheel in the
morning, each thirty and
forty" table, receives a certain
amount of cash when it opens.
When the cash is gone, which
happens sometimes, but not
often-all gambling establish
ments are "sure things" for
the owners-officials come in,
test the roulette wheel with a
steel die, or investigate the
losing thirty forty" table.
Then the game goes on with
more money.
Once, conniving with a gam
bling house servant, some in
genious gentleman pinched
very slightly all the black COM
partments of a roulette wheel.
The eye of a chance could see
the difference, although the
eye of man could not, and the
red won at least three times
out of five all day. Hence the
steel die to make sure that the
trick has not been repeated.
The Greeks want permission
TO take Constantinople from
the Turks. They say they
can't permanently dispose of
Turkey unless Greece can have
Constantinople.
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