The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-17
Navy Men Assert They Have
Carefully Considered Both
Sides of Question.
To the Federated Shop Crafts. the
Public, and others.

TO the Federated Shop Crafts. the
Public, and others:
Local 1872, /. A. OF M, has taken into
consideration your present struggle for
democracy, and the rights of the
american people to maintain their
standards OF living in health, comfort
and decency, against the railroads, and
other organized capital, who claim that
the American laboring man has no
right to exist outside of the work shop,
and the worse the conditions on the
outside the better for them.
"Both Sides"
We have carefully considered both
sides Of this struggle and we have fall
cd to see where the laboring man has
been conceded any justice by the de-
cision OF the railway labor board. 1t
Is considered useless for us to go deep
ly into the rulings Of the board, as we
know you are in a better position to
know them than we, you being directly
affected by their decision, except to
say that Mr.. Ben Hooper, chairman of
that board is very much behind the
times, and badly misinformed as to the
intelligence OF the laboring man.
Should Mr.. Hooper have been chair
man Of such board a generation back,
then he might have gotten away with
his idea that the American working
people were an inferior piece of hum
anity, and by patting them on the
back, and with his polished indignlty
and his accorded valorisation by say
ing, Boys be good sports and take it,"
but the laboring man of today is in
tellisent, educated and can see for
himself, he does not need any assist
ance in figuring what wage is neces-
gary to maintain his health and his
family's health and decency, neither
IS the daily wage the principal figure
in the life OF laboring humanity that
makes life worth while. None but
those who toll are in position to
realize that part of their very life that
is given to those who already have too
much OF this worlds goods, that they
may enjoy all the comforts and pleas
ures that are to be enjoyed. 1t has
been proven that thirty-six to forty
eight hours without sleep has not been
sufficient to satisfy those who enjoy
what labor produces for them.
Fight For Sixty Years
The laborlng man through his or
CARNATIONS has been fighting now for
sixty years for the eight hour day and
now that he has won it, it must not
NJ expected that he will give it up,
much more could be said on the
working conditions of labor. 1t is well
understood what Mr.. Hooper means
when he attempts to create dual or
ganizations in the labor movement, Tor
81 there were no railway labor organi-
he raj lyUaV Ia hOr
board. Hence, Mr. Hoopers position
We do. not take the stand that the
railway labor board is failure, out
the principles for which 1t was organ
ICED have been abused, as was the
principles of the board Of arbitration,
When the Pennsylvania railway ana
the A. B. and A, and others defied the
railway labor board, the laboring man
tried to enforce the law, the erect OF
which was that their challenge was
whitewashed. Now that the laborlns
man has exhausted his last resources
CAPITAL would color the whole pudole
red and solicits the U. 8. army to do
their painting that their roads might
run and their Injuries and pleasures
he not interferred with.
Eight For All"
1--WE take the stand that this Is not
altogether your fight, 1t is fight for
all who labor, and every class union
and non-union alike. 1t cannot be de-
MED that every union man must fight
the battles of one non-union man. we
also feel assured that this will be
fight to finish, and in the end the
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