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Show itnl) iLafaor $etos Published every Saturday by Salt Lake Federation of Labor. Endorsed by the Utah State Federation of Labor and the Salt Lake Building Trade Council. A. F. Moore Editor and Manager BOARD OF CONTROL. Chairman Barbers No. 877. Director 0. K ASHHIUDGE Plumbers & Stcamfltters No. 19. Director D. F. LFWIS Workmen No. 252. .Brewery 11. KL1CNKK Director Musicians No. 104. Director J. J. CUSHMAN Carpenters No. 184. J. S. DIXON, Utah State Federation of Labor ... .Cooks and Waiters No. 815 JAMES IIALL. .Building Trades Council Building Laborers No. 79. Subscription, $ 1.00 a year In advance. Advertising rates on application to Business Office, Labor Temple. Phone Wasatch 1921. Correspondents alone responsible for views and statements in signed A. F.. HARVEY , tions, building the ships, producing the food and attending to its transportation, bo we propose in the future to have fame of our boys in the directing and negotiating the terms of peace and a lot of other things that we have heretofore shirked. It isnt right to saddle them with questions of state when there is a workingmaD who could do the work Just as well or maybe beer. No, you wont find us lacking in patriotism. We know that it Is our duty to preserve the nation from foes and now is Just the time to begin doing it. DONT WAKE EM UP -- matter July Entered as second-clas- s at the postoffice at Salt Lake Cltv, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 14, 1916, 1879. 4444444444f44444f4444 4 4 4 linrdly a day but one or more 4 who should be getting Labor 4 News regularly complain that it 4 is not being delivered to them. Those who subscribe through 4 4 their union officials rather than 4 directly to this office should 4 take it up with their secretary. 4 We have no way of knowing that 4 you want the paper or how to 4 deliver it to you unless we are 4 furnished your name and ad- 4 dress. 4 We want every union man In 4 the city to read Iabor News, but 4 we cant undertake to get the 4. paper to you if someone else on 4 whom you depend fails to send in 4 your name -and .address and the 4 money, 4 If you are paying for it and 4 dont get it, call or phone and we 4 will try to locate the trouble. 4 I 4 TO SI' IISCH I II Ell i. 4- 444444 444-4'- 4 "What was it you said to that man Just now?" "I told him to hurry up." What right have you to tell him to hurry?" "I pay him to hurry." 'What do you pay him?" Four dollars a day. "Where do you get the four dollar to pay him with?" I sell cut stone." "Who cuts the stone?" "He does." How much stone does he cut?" "Well, a man can cut a lot of stone in a day." "How much do you get for the stone?" "I get about seven dollars for what 4 he does," 4 "Then, instead of you paying him 4 four dollars he actually pays you 4 4 three dollars a day for standing 4 around and telling him to hurry up?" 4 "Well, but I own the machinery." 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 PROSPERITY. The department of labor experts announced yesterday in a review of food prices that the annual food bill of the average family has grown from 1339. SO in 1913 to 1423.54 at present. They estimate that the advance In the cost of food has so far outstripped wage increases that the workman who drew $3 a day in 1907 now finds himself Just 69 cents a day worse off. "How did you get the machinery?" Sold cut stone and bought it. "Who cut the stone?" "Shut up! Youll make the men wake up, and then they'll cut the stone for themselvesi" Operative Masons Journal. MUTES DEMAND FREEDOM. March Deaf and Springfield, dumb persons In this state are protesting against a bill introduced In the general assembly to take a census of all mutes and ascertain what trades are best suited for them. These unfortunates denounce the attempt to have some state authority censor their views on employment. 111., RUBBER PROFITS LARGE. New York, March 30. United Stales Rubber company stockholders will not worry over the high cost of living. SaJes last year amounted to $126,759,-00a gain of $33,898,000, or 86 per cent over the preceding year. Of this total $11,226,000 was saved as profit before dividends of 15 per cent to stockholders was paid. 0, BINDERY GIRLS RAISE WAGES. President Wilson has been given assurance that the organized workers can be depended upon in tho event of war with a foreign power some other cause for maligning us must be found other than lack of pa- Chicago, March 30. Organised bindery girls in this city have negotiated a wage agreement that makes their rates $10 to $12 a week. that triotism. What reason have the wealth owners for even anticipating that we were likely to desert them? Havent we been killing each other for generations In the mills and factories we have built for them merely for the pleasure of serving them? Dont we kill one of our number every hour or so to prove our devotion? We have always met their demands and there is no reason to believe that we arc not willing to kill foreigners whom we have never seen as well as those of our own flesh and blood, if it affords them pleasure and profit. Of course there Is a croaker here and there, but when we get into battle he probably will get killed or something and then there will he nothing to Jar the finely adjusted sensibilities. We believe just as thoroughly as they do that the whole scheme of the Creator had them in mind when shaping His program. And we have the courage of our convictions in that regard, at least, as evidenced by our past performances. We believe, however, that we are not doing all that we should In furnishing the men, making the-mu- ni 4 SOMETHING WRONG Theres something wrong when a few can feast On viands dainty and vintage red, While many shiver by fireless hearths, And clamorous bread. . SNOBBISHNESS AMONG WORKMEN By the Rev. Charles Stclzle. hates a snob. But tho snob-hate- r sees only the chap who looks down on him he scarcely ever thinks of himself as despising the man whom he regards as beneath himself. Most of u think of snobs as rich people. The fact is. however, that there are as many snobs among workEverybody ingmen as there are among the rich. For example, In the average machine shop there are at least half a dozen different grades of society. The draftsmen who regard themselves as semfprofessional men feel that they are Just a bit better than the patternmaker, who wear aprons instead of coats while on the job. The patternmakers consider themselves a whole lot better than the machinists, because ordinarily they wear white shirts instead of overalls and because they earn about half a dollar more a day. And the machinists have a notion that they are better than some other mechanics In the same plant although they couldnt tell you exactly why. And the whole bunch of mechanics They despise the common laborer. decline to eat their lunches in the same corner with him, and when he goes out on a Job with the mechanics he is treated like an Inferior being. The strange thing about it is that the amount of money that a man has doesn't seem to be the factor which controls in the matter of making snobs. The average clerk in a department store regards himself as superior to thousands cry for Theres something wrong when the rich can wear Silks and laces and jewels fine; While the poor to rags and to husks are heir, And feed as the prodigal did with swine! Theres something wrong when a few can dwell In mansions of maible oarven fair, While housed in hovels with rotting roofs The toilers struggle with lifes despair! Theres something wrong when the children spin Their small lives Into' the thread they make; Or weave their hopes by the shuttle's din Till the small hands ache and the small hearts break! Arthur Goodenough, in the Tobacco Worker. both the mechanic and the laborer. He doesnt want to be known as a not he. He may get "workingman about half as much money as a tiptop mechanic, but he- has the notion that he is infinitely superior to thq although to turn out hi? work the mechanic requires twice as much brain power as may be necessitated in the case of the clerk. In a little Minnesota town there are three womens clubs one composed of the wives of engineers, another consisting of the wives of firqe men and a third made up of wives of brakemen. It Is absolutely impossible for the wives of the firemen to Join the club composed of the wive? of engineers, and as for the wives of the brakemen they simply arent mechanic in it. Talking about "aristocracy of labor, there is a sense in which labor has a right to be proud because It 14 producing something that is w'orth while instead of grafting on the rest of the world but this is the only reason that it has for calling itself better stuff than the parasites who live on the labor of others. Any sort of aristocracy that cause one workingman to look down upon another workingman simply because he happens to wear different kind ho of working clothes, or because earns a few cents a day less, or works half a day longer, or because he has a Job which compels him to do some thing which most of us dont like to do such aristocracy Is a curse to and the workers should ashamed of it. TWO KINDS OF PACIFISTS 30. ASSURANCES GIVEN. Now Saturday, Mar . 31, 1917 UTAH LABOR NEWS Page Four Bertrand Russell in classes of men oppose war. One is the class of men whose impulsive nature is more or less atrophied. Opponents of pacifism suppose that all pacifists belong to this class. They assume that pacifists are bloodless, men without passions, men who can look on and reason with cold detachTwo ment while their brothers are giving their lives for their country. Among those who are passively pacifist and who do no more than merely abstain from actively taking part in the war, there may ha a certain proportion of whom this is true. I think that the suppporters of war would be right in decrying such men. In spite of all the destruction which is wrought by the impulses that lead to war, there is more hope for a nation Which haa these Impulses than for a nation In which ill impulse is dead. Why Men Fight. 1 The active pacifists, however, ard not of this class; they are not men without impulsive force. On the contrary, they are men in whom some definite impulse, like the impulse toward life, or art, or democracy, to which war is hostile, is strong enough to overcome the Impulses that lead to war. It Is not the act of a passionless man to throw himself athwart the whole movement of national life, to urge on an apparently hopeless cause, to Incur obliquy and to resist the contagion of collective emotion. The impulse to avoid the hostility of public opinion is one of the strongest in human nature, and can only bo overcome by an unusual force of di- , rect and uncalculating impulse; it is not cold reason alone that can prompt such an act. The active pacifist is a man of strong impulses and of unusual physical and moral courage. WHAT IS MILITARISM? By Charles T. Hallman, Editorial Director of the American Union Against Militarism. When the New York general assembly appropriates only $60,000 for physical training of all its boys and girls, and $50,000 for "the bureau of technical military training, for drilling boys only, between the ages of 16 and 18 years of age that discrimination is militarism. The ordinary West Pointer, fed chiefly on military history, including the Napoleonic wars, thinks that when the "fighting pacifist talks about militarism he Is referring to the possibility, that some day a soldier may arise the historic Man on Horseback and with thejjaid of the armed forces of the country seize the power and set up a military despotism. That is what Napoleon did, end that is the history which the average West Pointer knows best. But it is all bosh. The people of America are not afraid of the Man on Horseback, a twentieth century Napoleon, overrid- If he really ing this democracy. seized the power, he would be removed if necessary by political as- sassi nation. No, what the fundamental democrat means by "militarism is prewhat Webster's International cisely Dictionary means by it: "Militarism: The spirit and tem per which exalts the military virtues and ideals and minimizes the defects of military training and the cost of war and preparation for it." That is tho definition, and the action of the New York general assembly illustrates it exactly. j ' |