The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-06-16

ne question IS addressed to MIL
ionaires in the faith (say of Goods
Fool' if you please that there is
among them at least one man or
woman whose millions are being
nobilized to march to the fraternal
music now sounding in the ears of
he awakening human spirit.
Whatever may be the rights of the
oal strike, it is wrong and nothing
but wrong-it is unfair, unsports-
.nanlike, un-American and unwise-
20 starve the miners into submission.
When you take your belt up two
more holes, We'll get you" is not the
light answer for America to make
o the American miner-or to per
nit any group to make.
That would be to put the iron into
ne soul of our miners and poison
nto the blood of their wives and
-hildren. And that would be shame
full and unwise.
Our mining population (men, wo-
men and children) numbers about
hree million souls-every one of
i.
Out Of sight, out of mind" perhaps
spplies to no group of our fellows
30 much as to our miners. And yet
hey are in one important respect
he most essential group in our mod
IN society.
Upon the strange willingness Of
,ur miners to work in the dark, damp
hOkY bowels of the earth, cheek by
owl with death, depends the we'll
being of Weil-night every home and
very school, every church and hos
1ital, and the operation of every
hip and railroad every factory and
furnace.
Underneath our civilization, en-
rgizing and sustaining it, are the
everlasting arms of our brothers
yho live a buried life that we may
ave a place in the sun on Gods
.,reen earth and breathe clean fresh
air
Our debt to our miners is immeas-
Irable In the case of the million
ire that is peculiarly true.
Nevertheless. there may be some
Who think the miners ought not to
in this strike.
But there ought not to be anybody
gho wants to see the miners lose
" sheer starvation. There ought
.ot to be anybody who desires to
&c the miners bounded back to the
alnes by hunger to eat with d
ankling heart what to them is the
litter bread of injustice.
That would be discreditable to us
i. That would be unfair. .
Jnsportsmanlike. Mean.
downright mean. Yes, socially SAT
ron economically yellow.
If the Era of Good Feeling is to
eturn, is it not time for us to put
ar feet down hard and firm on that
ort of thing?
Whatever happens-let us serve
Office on those who enter into a
ovenant with hunger to break the
pirit Of the American worker that
ne American spirit will not tolerate
Ich social tactics.
Just at this moment there is a
Splendid Chance for a Valiant Mil
on to stand forth and say: "How-
yer this strike is settled. it shall
.ot be settled by starving the min
rs into submission. Some better
-ay must be found either in Wash
lgton or outside Washington. 1t
lust be settled on its merits"
The gift Of a cool million to feed
ne miners and their families at this
Incture would make the whole coun-
~ sit up and take notice and cast
bout for some fair and honorable
1ethod Of settling this great strike
afore the ugly possibilities involved
a it become tragic actualities.
ELIZA BETH GILMAN.
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