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Show STRIKERS NOT EXEMPT. While millions of the young men of the country have been drafted and hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of others have volunteered volun-teered for service at the front, and while patriotic citizens all over the land are buying Liberty loan bonds and subscribing sub-scribing to the Red Cross fund, we regret re-gret to note that there is a disposition to strike upon the part of those who ore engaged in the mining and smelting industries. in-dustries. The country must have coal and copper and of course the mines and smelters i;iul continue in operation or we shall not be able to manufacture munitions mu-nitions or anything else. The case is so urgent that the mere fact of a man being be-ing employed in theso industries has been urged as a reason why he should be exempted from the operation of the selective se-lective draft law and it may be that in a majority of such cases the men so employed em-ployed will escape service in the army. But those who are on strike when the names come out of the wheel will have no excuse to offer and if they will not work many of them will be compelled com-pelled to fight. |