The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-05-17
The Cherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

employers must nave funny no. |
tions about what workers think. A |
traction company in New Orleans
forms "club," gives CLUB mem
bers special privileges, and thinks
that will be the end of the union with
which the company has a contract.
This is nothing less than double
crossing. Evidently the traction
bosses thought they could get away
with it. The union is endeavoring to
convince the company that working
men can see through such devices as
quickly as anyone else.
Down in Elizabethton, Tenn, Benz
berg mill owners think that by form
ing Loyal Workers of Bamberg"
they can lure the strikers back to
their under1paid labors. Loyal Work
ers of Bemberg"! What ghastly
thing that is. Loyal to what? To
principles? To traditions? To fam
lily? To anything decent and clean
and worth while? No! Just to the
mills of Bemberg mills that were
put in Tennessee to be near raw ma
terial and "cheap" labor and that
were put in the United States instead
of Germany to beat the American
| tariff as we'll
Now imagine asking descendants of
the American revolution to be loyal to
that as against the principles that
came down to them from the men
who made history at Kings Noun
tain! What sneaking, kaiseristic
travesty!
There are employees who think they
can get away with hokum like that.
Unfortunately, too, there are en-
ployers who do, for time, get away
with it. But Abraham Lincoln knew
as much as anybody about the hu-
man race, and he was eternally right
I. when he said the bunco game doesn't
work forever. Just now and then.
Bosses, however, fool themselves
worse than they fool the workers
when they resort to these poker
tricks. Every authority worth listen
, ing to is saying that prosperity can
not be continued-such as it is
without generally high wages ano
generally shortened work days. Sec.
retary Davis goes to Philadelphia ano
tells the big bosses there, PAY high.
4 er wages" Ethelbert Stewart, the
: veteran statistician who knows more
about industrial statistics than any
) body else in the country, say, "The
only market worth having is the home
market" and he goes on to show thai
the home market has got to be ere
ated out of high wages and leisure
time for the use of modern commod
tiles.
The big plants at Elizabethtor
make artificial silk. They make rayon
How much rayon are their $500
strikers buying today? How mucl
: of anything are they buying? Thos,
$500 men and women and boys ant
> girls constitute a blank hole in tn,
market, to put it from the employer.
viewpoint. Sometimes employers
: seem to be plain crazy.
: Statistician Stewart startled
5 good many folks not long ago whel
S he said the American industrial or
ganization could in 30-hour work
week produce more than it can sell.
1t will never sell more. until th
American people can buy more. The,
can never buy more until they ge
bigger wages and have more fre
time.
This has got to happen faster thai
any like development has ever hap
. pened in world history before, O
0 there will be more smash, crash an,
: general misery than any person hope
p to see.
e Employers with such funny notion
as those of the New Orleans Traction
6 bosses and the Tennessee rayon bosse
) are as out of date as the dod bird
:, as ossified as boarding house prun
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