The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-14
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PiISudSki, the Issue
Wire Pulling
BaIdWin'S S Mistake
Fight for Ideals
BY NJ. f.. Tracy

Dy VA. Ls AidNy
The Polish revolution is very
simple after all. There is only one
issue involved, and that is Pilsud-
ski.
Pilsudski wants the present gov
ernment to resign so that he can
become dictator. Then he wants the
parliament dissolved so that he can
dictate more effectively.
1t sounds as though he had been
taking lessons of Mussolini.
Perhaps he has and perhaps more
aspiring Europeans will do likewise,
There is no easier way to make
dictators than to swing away from
the principles of republicanism in
either direction.
Italy has done II by swinging to
the right and Russia by swinging to
the left.
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The wire pullers back OF Stanley
Baldwin, the votaries of unyielding
conservatism, who got him to let
them masquerade as the British gov
ernment are now compelled to show
their true colors.
They aren't half so ready to die
for the government today as they
were forty-eight hours ago. They
aren't even ready to keep good faith
with it.
1t is their obvious purpose to go
on with the fight.
If they cant go on with II as a
general strike. then they will go on
with 1t as a general lockout.
This squares the issue since It was
as a lockout, not a strike. that the
fight begun.
T. T. I.
1t is difficult for the average
American, who has never been con.
fronted with such an Issue as that
raised in England to dig down
through all the propaganda and per-
ceive the truth.
In this country, employers don't
have to be forced to make improve
ments. If ANYTHING, they move too
fast, try out too many schemes, put
In too much new machinery.
They seldom balk at new meth
DDS on the ground that they may
have to pay Increased wages be-
cause OF increased production. They
believe in increased production and
the more pay 1t carries for their
employees, the better they like it.
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In England an opposite view pre-
walls, and that Is the secret OF all
this trouble.
The average British coal miner
produces only about two-thirds as
much coal as he did fifty years ago.
The tunnel is longer and the shaft
deeper, OF course. but that is only
one-hah the story. The other halt
is that employers have stubbornly
refused to moGernize the business to
put in modern machinery and adopt
modern methods.
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Stanley BALDWIN saw the tragic
mistake he has made, though not
until a nine-day t1e-up had revealed
the futility OF his position.
He gave way as gracefully as cir
cumstances would permit, after Sir
Herbert Samuels and Arthur Pugh
had shown him how.
The general strike was called off
on his promise that the coal mining
business would be reorganized with
the subsidy restored and no reduc-
tion of wages meanwhile.
But the die hards refused to fol-
low his lead and the situation has
shifted from strike to lockout
with the government forced to swap D
sides unless it is prepared to eat its
own agreement.
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Yesterday 7 said the miners had
won, and | am ready to repeat It.
The more the big boys wiggle. the
more complete a victory the labor.
ties will achieve. Their fight is for
modernization az opposed to eigh-
teenth century methods, for the right
of men to capitalize invention, pow
er and science.
The question of pay is but a de-
tail since they are willing to earn
1t II given the chance.
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7 abhor the thought of a general
strike or lockout. l hope that our
country will never face either.
But I believe that the 5000 900
workers Of England come closer to
the ideals my great grandfather
fought for when he shouldered his
musket and enlisted with Washing
ton. than the so-callled intelligencia
that is trying to hold them back.
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After all the by-play and twist
ed arguments, I believe the English
working classes are fighting for the
right to live in a modern world and
to enjoy soma OF the comforts and
luxuries which a modern world
makes possible for us ordinary folks.
They're winning because they are
right, because they have taken the
side Of growth and progress. which
is the side Of nature.