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Show SABBOTAGE ON A LARGE SCALE THERE has been a regular system of -throwing the hammer into the wheels of large industries on the Pacific Pa-cific coast that has been worked on a regular system for the past six months. Some unpopular corporation is selected se-lected by the managers and a strike started, which is fomented by outsiders until the property is tied up and then other strikes are started. Usually the metal trades and the carpenters' car-penters' union, all highly paid workers, are then enlisted to tie up the shipyard?, and the building of wood and steel ships is stopped. Then the strike is spread by refusal of the wood and metal workers to use lumber cut from mills or- made ' from logs where labor works more than eight hours a day. As pretty nearly all the logging camps and sawmills have been operated on ten-hour clays, the entire present stock of cut logs and lumber is destroyed destroy-ed for the market. From Bellingham to San Diego, and from the coast to the Rocky Mountains this same follow-up system has been employed and seems to be under the direction di-rection of one mind. If that mind were the mind of the German kaiser it could not do his bidding or further his interest inter-est more completely than . this mind does that paralyzes American industries. indus-tries. Logging camps, sawmills, shipyards, ship-yards, mines, smelters, traction systems sys-tems that carry workers to and from their jobs, have been the object of attack. at-tack. The nation faces sabbotage on a scale heretofore unknown and losses running into the hundreds of millions have befallen helpless industries, - and the end is not yet in sight. How much longer will the people endure it? n |