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abraham Llncola
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Nome. Aliutfca, September 11. !!>!7.
ST I1.1. I’AKI.i A INC.
1 ;i Irnliatutpolis lilt* miners an
discussing the rate of pay which
the' will iccept in several states.
Th?*y are members of the United
Mine Workers of America. They
are men who have accepted the
check oil ami the contract system
as the easiest way of meeting cm
plovers.
i'or that they lmve been praised
by many as responsible men.
Not that all the coal barons are
willing to negotiate and bargain
collectively with that orgai izat ion.
ar- not tie examples of Colorado
and Kentucky and \Ve> t Virginia
too r-I.; ti ne. d mention to prove!
that matte of the operators ho not j
want to M'taf with any form of or-I
ganizutin on the woti r
who h.o h" It reading solely tile n- i
pifai:-' I : 1 w ho : ;t hit per
fetiadcd 11, a * tht opposition t the1
[. \v. W a l it different to the
nouns!* a . c c ra!;> manitoso-d
against the Am.-ric; *i P-deratlon of
J.ahor.
Take :. i'rttt a f..r Inst title*-.
Th t cif :■ ’ oi.tri.lb I almost • -t.■
tirtdy b> t i.■ American Kedcr.it am |
of l.ahcr t rganizations and w (io
not see tlu.t there is any more jo
i ihiatiot! to treat it or with it than
wi’h tie I W. Vf. Hi oti tin part of
t it • op* n . hupp -rs.
,i I- . < riainl' to 1-• s id that
11 war - not ironed out t If*
I-..,ii i< s of the workers and era
l lovers anil strikes and antagonism
persists quite regardless of the form
of organization.
And as we see it. this is the
basic fact of the whole matter in
these industrial disturbances, be
cause the workers are unable to
ge- enough pay to meet the- high* i
costs of living.
• t might as well be admitted that
this is so, and that steps he taken
to remedy it.
As it is capitalists tight the work
ers. and regardlesss or’ the inter
ruption in the ptoduction following
strikes, there is no inclination to
view the situation in a practical
manner and to oie-ib the fact
that to work met. a ugh
to live upon: i■ • .•o, rve their
lives they must have ample leisure,
good ’lothing and titling shelter.
Without wages providing these
as the minimum there will always
)ie trouble. It is merely throwing
dust, in the eyes of the public to
assert that it is a pro-German tend
ency then that excites this indus
trial unrest. It is no such thing
It is the fact that the purchasing
power of wages is all shot to pieces
and the workers know it as they
cannot help but know it when the
marketting returns show half oi
former purchases for the same
amount of money.
We have always held that indus
trial preparedness begins upon this
fundamental basis that wages
should he ample for all purposes of
living in decency. It’s not such a
minimum that will buy just enough
adulterated impure and unwhole
some food as will keep body and
soul together in a working man
until his place can he taken bv an
other. It is such a minimum as
witi provide a workingman with
everything lie needs to live well
and live wholesomely and live with
out his health being endangered.
We dont believe that the nation
realizes tlie full extent of the crisis
that is now reached in Labor. The
supply of workers is limited. To
think that the employers may pur
sue the same Imp-hazard methods
of exploitation as bet ore is absurd.
Th( supply is too inadequate to
meet industrial needs that even on
life* should he lightly treated in in
dustr> even . r< a an emplo; . r'
standpoint. r.ornirrlv in the do,
of peace tie i * vas an ;" m< : sc
stream of immi; : at ion nrrivii.;
i,;.;.. r could In Modi- d from that
exhaustive- source. That is now
dried up. it is drained out. Not
only that hut conscription lias
turner d.-pieted a supply which the
increased industrial activity had al
already greatly shotended.
Older men middle aged men who
formerly were regarded as unem
ployable are being employed. lust
as old ships that were ready to Ik
broken up lor junk have owing to
the diver loss.-s been placed again
in servii.- and at a premium at
that, so the gray hatred wurlars
who had i -n si rapped : s lit only
v. ark house tuivi i e t •
:i : I the employer- in
:.i:l to get tl'.ctn.
. r yard of t If w ■ it In : up
. --. :.i\ ealt h. t up - rai>
'..list howt ver is not ceii
:!mt. ilc wants to < tn
and children. 'I lit-v ar*
: tin:! and t If a per I ha n
it was fashionably in Kng
, :* is to he ,ta b fashion
An erica
. -■ ■ •;.11 to the |i ir -ty ma
: c-i l bis mailer. »e sec
. I.iml tin wotiu li \vere
i!." majority in l some
.as lit! hard work, li
women were toe lew and
while their lcplo.i
im reasing with it is - and
I lie.' w i e latt tOllpl O'"d t o
li Meut. l's| eii*11 > li i.
In ..i nc.led that wi m In
for tin
employ
many ,
With
Of till
ttlotis I
tel I w
ploy \
■•dill I
men.
land a
able ii
teritil a.
th t in
a I w a: s
of till ill
A m r: -
indus; r.
Ill e n 1 W
• oil;
not illiei|Ual :•!>
for their oif-springs and iv
nii'.iiufact uring -liters tin
death rate was simply ap
:; 11 a n i
paiiii g.
Ui-s tnl’.t ss t hen of the prime
in-, dOf preserving the health of the
future mothers of the nation, em
pb \ i rs under tiic guise of patrsol
isn intend to draw upon the poss
lbi'itbs in I'-male labor for tic pur
posi of making up any pretended
shortage.
Very evidently it is much more
cl., iply doin- than to concede the
demands of the men for higher
waa.-u The railroads have shown
the way and already in the shops
and ro'undhoust s, greasy faced,
grimy haired female workers arc
sapping the vitality of their woman
hood and their vitality for mother
liord in most degrading conditions
of labor that nv-n will not tolerate.
Almost anything is to iie tried
by these self-styled patriots rather
than the concession of the demands
of the workers.
The miners meeting in their Halls
lo consider the future wage scale
will later on if they proceed to ex
tremes of a strike be considered!
unpatriotic. They will then observe j
that the places will he filled where1
possible by women who will sutler
the distress of economic conditions.
It is practically the same every
where, There seems to be a genuine
belief in a a good many
quarters that what has to
be done it to do everything
else but concede the workers their
demands and that by denouncing
strikes and industrial unrest as
pro-German or I. W. Wism the;,
will force the government to take i
the side of empoyers and make tin
workers accept the conditions the
profiteers like to impose and to enj
oy women where they can in their
stead.
HlGHKll rnu MS.
Something in the neighborhood
of fifteen billions odd will be appro-j
printed by the spec ial session o: j
Congress for war purposes
This is simply another way o: j
-aying that values to that amount I
will be bought by t lie United
States government.
Obviously it is impossible to In-1
tensity the demand for articles |
nuale anywhere by a fifteen billion
dollar buy without ex iting a sharp
increase in prices.
Moreover those billions will be
spent in paying for necessities for
th" greater part, but quite regard
less cf this an immense purenase
in one line invariably, owing to tin
industrial ramifications, results in I
a sympathetic im reuse in ali othei j
lines.
it is safe to argue too that this
immense extension of govern mental j
appropriations for Immediate need
will be followed by .1 still turthei j
in. reuse in all prices. It is an in
tea.Miration < i the demand wit,
supply r« mailing pra< tit-ally
tb ■ same and ■ ti < ’s< fumco ti
prices will most certainly rise also. •
it may not b ■ that t n pri « ■
will be imimdiut'dy felt; nut tl.ai
the inert asr will take phe r is ui.ii
out doubt a moral certainty.
It is ext .-ediugly < 1 irti- ml to t.is i
cover how 11;is continuous soaring!
f ; ri-es i an be regulated. It can!
hardly be done with the aid of gov-;
erunn nt regulation although an a' !
most supi rs!it iuus regard for tin
powns of government regulation is
observable in many quarters.
(jin- certain rt meoy u mi l i ■
the l Nation of uninn rev. d prop t
ty and va< ant lauds or lands held
by e til ators. end a siri-tly e v
er" lex upon loots, on an int-r- ", n
tal:x. . ■ .il< .
Government conscriptior. ol indus
trial ;1' lit-; would of eour.s • be -ill
obvious renu d> ior fin- maii’imi -
lured go-ids. but tin- cry of si iai
ism which such a course certainly
woiilii ik i b . is enough to kill that
proposal in the meanwhile.
It is a very evident fact that
even masters of finance and finan
cial methods are puzzled over the
ability of Germany tc finance this
war without any apparent trouble.
The secret is to be found in the
fact that Germany forced her cre
dit upon men and corporations
while taking care to prevent any
gold being exported.
Vet even now there is beginning
to be seen that this fallacious
method will not last for ever. To
make or.e loan pay the interest on
the past as Germany has done is
one that leads into Quantities of in
debtedness must ultimately become
unpayable.
Only the other day Zurich im
porters and exporters were warned :
that they would have to accept Ger
man notes in marks payable three
monil s after the settlement of the i
war hereafter. This came like a
bolt from the blue, for the German
government watched quite tireless
ly ovt r the maintenance of its for
ce,;! credits up to this.
it is significant that this was done
upon a government order, but when
German merchants. industrial
chit fa and finance magnates have
hitherto sought to explain a policy
was regarded with suspicion, they
simply said it was a government
action.
In Germany by a system of one
loan paying the interests on tli
previous loan and the arrangement
of those loans in a well arranged
system of almost geometrical pro
gression, the government has been
able to pile up indebtness with little
trouble. But it has notwithsand
th" pile of single tax. the immense I
income tax. the tax on rents and
profits, sent prices sky high for j
even the simplest commodities, -no
German system was eund to blow*'
up srner or later. The hap-hazard j
methods of American finance will
sooner cr later do the same thing
as that or leave the country prostrate
'“fore a ravenous handful r.f finan
cial pirates
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