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Show SOLILOQUY ON HASTY STRIKE AT NEWHOUSE The Beaver County News has the following fol-lowing to say regarding the recent strike of employees at tho South Utah Mines and Smelter corporation at Newhouse. Utah: We- Imagine the element at Newhouse which forced tho present shutdown aro wondering Just what hit them. It ought to be apparent to any sensible man that the approach of winter, with no money or supplies on hand, does not furnish a verv propitious tlmo for quitting his Job. whether he does It as a matter of principle princi-ple laziness, pure cusscdnc.su or what. Then1 was a considerable element at Newhouse which did not want to strike and are still at work. The company is now desirous of getting moro and more men, but they want men who want the Jobs. The element thnt struck and threatened threat-ened what they would do If tholr demands de-mands were not immediately complied with arc down and out hero at the beginning be-ginning of winter, when tho country Is full of labor disturbances, ana a consequent conse-quent impossibility of getting Jobs to replace re-place tho ones they have voluntarily given up. Some of those men who struck so valiantly at Newhouse were bogging for money to get something to eat by the lime they cot to MJlford. and thero viro only a very few of them who were at all equipped for any continued contest. A lot of theoretical observations about tho rights of labor, all men being free and equal, that one Is as good as another, that the unions must be recognized and the federations of labor dealt with by employers, do not fill the empty stomach or clothe the body. The true fact Is becoming be-coming more and moro apparent to the Intelligent clement of tho laboring classes, so called, that they are being most miserably ndylsed. misled, and In many Instances openly hotrayed by their leaders. The capitalists can stand these shutdowns a. whole lot better than the common laboring man. Even admitting that the contentions of the labor union movement are right in many instances, as they unquestionably are In some, still, some ordinary horse scn3c should bo exercised. ex-ercised. The editor of this paper, the owner of a store, a blacksmith, a farmer, all must live, and the same is truo of the union man, no matter what his grievance real or Imagined, mav be. and his first duty to himself and hfs family, If he has one. Is not to Jump from the frying pan Into the fire by precipitately quitting the position ho has. at the behest be-hest of some salaried labor leader, at a time and under conditions when he hasn't the slightest kind of a fighting show for victory. |