The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-16
Woostersauce

H Woostersauce
By E. S. w.
It you believe you are radical, keep
Iquiet about ii.
That is, don't put the label on your
IseIf.
For, during the next few months and
The next few years. to be branded as
radical is TO be given the worst insult
possible.
1t will be highly detrimental, TOO.
In the railroad strike. actual and
pending, no quarter is to be given.
II is frankly war to the finish. If
they lose, it will be the finish of the
unions.
The operators are beginning their
flight by attacking the radicals. They
Iare discovering bomb" plots. They
Twill continue to do 50. with the proba-
BE intention of duplicating officials Of
the unions The purpose will be to put
the unions on the defensive, to make
THE rank and file lose faith in their
leaders.
Ainericanism will be the rallying cry,
taking the place IF patriotism
# you are not entirely satisfied with
1.-THE rule Of property and people by the
existing property-holding oligarchy,
then you are to be branded as un-Am-
Ierican.
The unions will become very un-
American, unpatriotic, and unsafe.
1t is part of the battle which is be-
ling waged to break the unions.
On the Pacific Coast the Better
American Association" began the open
shop fight in the San Francisco Bay
district, extending it to many smaller
Icities.
From Los Angeles, heralded as the
great non-union city of America, came
many non-union men. They took the
places of the locked-out union men.
The union men, jobless, looked about
for places and emigrated to Los Ange-
les. There, true to their training, they
joined the unions.
This extraordinary movement escap-
led the notice of the Better Americans
until Los Angeles had become more
unionized than ever before in
its history.
Employers complain that it is almost
impossible to get a non-upion crew in
many lines, specially in building lines,
Shades Of Harrison Gray Otis, what
next!
The coal strike seems to be virtually
settled, yet the public will derive lit
tie benefit.
The operators, poor plagued beings.
are going to retaliate by holding up the
public. That. Of course, is entirely just
and right. Only the miners can do
wrong.
But the worst Of the hold-up is that
the railroad strike is making the mining
Of coal almost useless, not to say inn
possible thing. What's the use of TAX
ing it out from underneath and stor-
ing it on top, if il goes no further
Now comes the really serious thing. !
Industry everywhere is short Of coal,
and has been for some time.
The railroad strike is making the
Of goods impossible. It
IS like plugging up all the veins and arr
teries Of the body and expecting the
BODY to continue healthy.
Besides the miners and ailroads,
many other industries are adding to
he already formidable number Of un-
employed men.
Many of them are not strikers, but
ire unemployed because the industries
lave nothing 10 work with or on.
But, out Of work and suffering, they
will become rebellious and resentful,
.eady to strike out at what seems to be
in enemy.
Hungry and cold, they are likely to
Ievelop a spirit of anger that will be-
,ome serious.
1t Is fitting climax TO an orgy Of
patriotism diluted with profiteering,
md crowned with bunk nationalism.
So, if you are a radical. be a quiet
me, for the radicals are not gong to
,e popular.