The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-07-20
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1929.

is spreading to additional groups. BY
Saturday it is lrobable that there will
be an almost complete disruption uf|
transportation. That will mean great
loss to the entire public, and it will
also mean speedy ending of the
strike, we believe. So long as a thing
does not touch it, it is easy to view i'll
with complaccncy. When the public
feels the pinch, you will hear a howl,
and it will be Il real. roaring howl. We
oisve battle Much bl"odshcd will re-
suit. Many will be made 20 suffer and
the workingman will have injured his
cause.
No doubt railway workers ha 81
their grievances. 50 do men of all 9th
cr avocations. The men have a right
to demand what they suppose is due
them, and to walk out when they are
not satisfied But it will be long
time before the public will be brought
to the view that the striker has the
right to stand over the job he has quit
with 4 big stick ready to kill whoever
comes to take the job he has thrown
down. We have tolerated it, because
II is easy to tolerate even an inJuS-
ticc that strikes at big corporation
But when the farmers sons, coming
in from the country take up the Job
tnrowL down by the striker, and loses
see very different aspect Of the
whole question. And why, pray, does
the farmers son so readily decide t.
make the change from farming to
lailroading? Simple because the av-
crage workingman on the farm has
the hardest job and the least pay of
ELL The prices paid coal miners and
the better class of railway workers
appears to the farmer boy Il real sal
ary. But nobody seems to care wha;
EecOmcs of the farm worker. Let him
strike and then turn round and at
tempt to kill whoever tries to take up
lis jon and see how~fuickly he would
be landed in Jail and put upon the
thaIngang. The truth is, fear of ram
pant unioniSm has caused many TO re-
frain from criticisng the unions
Then. too, nobody likes the idea OF
refusing sympathy to the work
was a case in point. We are today
lngman. He is entitled to n fair wage
lie is justified in undertaking to ge,
H. But he must choose just methods
md his claims must be just. It is a
well known fact that the railway
workers and the coal miners are paid
wages higher than workingmcn of
other occupations. In the light of
present conditions the railway worker,
as well as all other workers, will have
to take less for his labor. 1t would
com" to that anyway, strike or no
strike. 1t will come to that even
though the strike should be success
full and obtain what is demanded.
We feel the utmost fricndliness to
yards the worker But it must be re-
membercd that manual workers are
rot the only workers. Others are
carrying heavy burdens. Business has
had t" tax" it's loss. A man yesterday
told the writer that he had, at that
time, $500 less than he had five years
ago, yet had worked harder than he
had ever done before in his life. Then.
too, there is ready disposition to de-
spisc any and all things connected
with the word "capitalsm." Hatred
towards corporations decade ago
was care in point We are today
going through different phase Of the
same thing Labor strikes blindly at
capital, and feels some great injus-
tIces are being done by capital. The
truth is, without the great aggrega-
tions Of capital there would be moth
ing for the laboring man to do. The
corporation provides the means for
giving employment to the worker