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Show oodt Published Every Saturday Jftib' BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: eluding postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 4 $4.50 per year. Lake! nmn one attempts to portray the need of the hour he is apt to himself seriously at variance with-large portion of his fellow enry in these great United States of America. But if we were to mpt to point out what is the greatest need of the present hour, we d say that it is a more general practice of the common garden applica-o- f variety of honesty and sincerity a practical every-da- y do unto others the age-ol- d preachment of the golden rule you would that they should do unto you. In every walk of life there is a prevalent suspicion based on On fear the other fellow is not going to give us a square deal. whole, humanity is honest and desirous of doing right, regard-io- f affiliation and religious belief. But there is just enough of other kind of dealing to put all men on guard against deception, etimes the obsession that we alone are honest and that all others something else causes us to carry to a ridiculous extreme our idea what is fair and just and in the pursuit of a good cause to its (mate, and past, we turn good into evil. Suspicion will be the one well-lai- d 3g. if any, that will wreck the plans for the limitation armaments, to the end that the burdens of war shall be lifted 3i the shoulders of the people. If we but had the moral courage trust the other fellow and believe that he will render to us exact tice. and if the fellow had the same kind of faith in us, we would quickly come to the conclusion that war is not only unnecessary, a colossal crime, especially in view of the fact that the chief tions engaged in the business of providing and maintaining im-s- e civilized, enlighten'ed and armaments are When a For mi nd ht 311-12-- 13 A SQUARE DEAL THE NEED OF THE HOUR Dinner! tic Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. of Act the under City, Utah, Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409 self-confesse- dly cated. Most of the troubles now flicting us are the result of suspicions that we can not afford to t the other fellow on equal grounds especially if we have the sent advantage. We are prone to press our advantage to the lib nt of rank n fact that we injustice, disregarding the but setting the example for the other party to take an unfair tantage of us when the tables are turned. The present prolonged depression in business is partly natural 4 largely artificial. When prosperity was rampant and everybody ding to the limit and over, we gave little thought of the ultimate Sequences and spent and spent until we were past the point of baustit ii. When the natural depression set in, certain agencies Reived the idea of helping things along by advocating a curtail-en- t of spending and of work of all kinds. Other agencies, seeing Opportunity to reap advantage from such a move, joined in and iffed to the effort to honestly reduce prices an attempt to get even di those whom they regarded as their antagonists in the Industrial jfo. Unforunately, this latter class have set innumerable examples heartless and uncompromising injustice that do not augur well for future of our country. Feeling that they had been the victims justice they set out on a policy of revenge that seems to know So also in our domestic relations. well-know- e no bounds or limits. The wreck of families, the destruction of homes and the practical starvation of honest citizens and their families do not in the least deter these vindictive people, who started out apparently with a good purpose and for commendable ends. Carrying their good purposes past all reason, they have become the agencies of a great national crime, for which, we honestly fear, they may at some not distant future, pay dearly. To come down to plain language: During the latter part of the recent war and after, when work was plentiful and men scarce, sQme labor organizations were prone to take unfair advantage of the situation and in consequence inflicted no little injustice on employers in many lines. The year 1921 has seen the pendulum of advantage swing clear back to the other side, so that the employer now has the upper hand. Employers who felt that they suffered injustice set out to correct the cause of their past wrongs. They were immediately joined by a set of conscienceless wolves in human form, mostly posing as industrial experts (for a monetary consideration) who launched and endeavored to execute a program of annihilation for all labor organizations ; not alone those which had been unwise in the day of their advantage, but those which refused under pressure to use their temporary advantage to their financial profit. Organizations as innocent of wrongdoing as it is possible to be, have been marked for the slaughter and have been pursued with a relentless fury that exceeds anything heretofore known in American annals. It goes without saying that such policy should meet only the con g citizens. demnation of all We hold no brief for the labor organizations, nor do we propose to defend the wrongs they have, at times, committed. We might say the same of the churches, the lodges, or any other class of society. But when people attempt to say, We will not recognize the union, they might as well say, We will not recognize the Rocky Mountains or the Pacific ocean. These things do not depend upon recognition, they exist and cannot be ignored. And the labor union it exists, it is a fact, and was forced into being by a long train of injustices upon those who work for wages. It is the workingman's only effective means for the expression of his plea for justice and fair dealing. So long as it docs right it should be permitted to pursue its way unmolested. When it does wrong, it should be brought to book and corrected, but as the only effective voice of the workingman, it should never be destroyed. In fact, it cannot be destroyed, except by the adoption of a higher and better means of securing a fair hearing for the man who toils. The present campaign to destroy the voice of labor but serves to prolong business depression and suffering among the toilers. American labor is sound at heart, as honest and fair in its dealings as the average of the citizenry. Of the tens of thousands of unions in the country, the names of but few ever appear in the public' press. The good they do is never mentioned, while any little evil is right-thinkin- |