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Show I Are Steel Strike Leaders Patriots or BoIshelsts? "We arc going to socialize the basic industries of the United States. This is the beginning of the jl fight. We are going to have representatives on the board of directors of the Steel Corporation," de- dared John Pitzpatrick, Chairman of the Committee of Twenty-four, representing the twenty-four sepa- rate American Federation of Labor unions participating in the steel strike. T. J. Yind, general organ- izer of the American Federation of Labor in the Chicago district, made even a more defiant cry when he $ I declared that "The strike won't stop until steel workers become the lawmakers at Washington.'' 1 j While many editorial writers outside the labor press takes these and other statements of the strike leaders as an indication that they aim at nothing less than industrial revolution, The New Majority, of a Chicago, organ of the Labor party, counters with a charge of "high treason" against Judge Cary of the A 5 United States Steel Corporation, because he denied the strikers "their constitutional rights of free speech, i press and assemblage," and it affirms, "he has set himself and his steel trust up in defiance of the Gov- ! ernment and Constitution of the United States as superior to them." ' j Concerning the union demand for increased wages, the labor leaders admit, according to a correspon- jj dent of the New York Tribune, that the wages to employees in the steel industry have increased about 100 jj I per cent in the last four years, but "even this increase has not sufficed to improve their originally wretch- i ; ed conditions. They tell of human beings living like cattle in miserable shacks and hov- I i els. The answer of the employers to this contention is that with the foreigners in the mills and I furnaces the rate of pay has nothing to do with the standard of living, as the purpose of this class of labor- j I ers is not to live well, but to live as poorly as possible, in order to save as much money as possible, usually I with the intention of returning to Europe when a certain size stake has been attained." The employers I support their contention by pointing to a scale of wages ranging from $3.50 to $6.50 a day for unskilled " I help, and from $7.00 to $80.00 a day for skilled help. I For a comprehensive review of the great steel strike from all angles, read THE LITERARY DIGEST for this week, i i October 4ih. Other, striking features in this week's DIGEST are: i I The Japanese Press Attacks the American Senate This Article Consists of Direct Translations From Japanese Journals, One of Which Declares That "It Is Not to the Honor of jj the American Senate to Place Itself on the Same Level With the Bolshevik!" f New York's Publishing Crisis Can Gilbert and Sullivan Be "Jazzed"? ' The Meat Packers State Their Case Whistler Retested by Modern Standards i n Bulgaria's Penalty Open Doors for American Music Teachers I Withdrawing Troops From Russia Mercier's Appeal to America j I Britain's Hand in Persia Does the Devil Hate the Tongue of Luther? j Bolshevism's Relapse to Czarism Best of the Current Poetry How to Choose Your Clothes World-wide Trade Facts I A Ship That Wouldn't Sink Albania the Country, Its History, Its Claims l Mechanical Aids for the Deaf D'Annunzio Poet, Esthete, Warrior, Rebel 1 ! MANY FINE ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING MAPS, AND HUMOROUS CARTOONS f I October 4th Number on Sale Today All Newsdealers 10 Cents ! - FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK j I :i Sweet's SALT LAKE v CHOCOLATES Popular Here- Sold From Aliski ' to Australia . V : ' 'i --and be sure ' they're Sweets' &r dealers sell Sweets Chocolates r v. 1 ... JmM WALK-OVER bSk (fW CIs V Pay Less Than the Prevailing- Factory Yf j-'Y Cost for These Women's f'J w Hi-T op Boots 1 p 4; 7 f 1 ;Jj IB M H Today's wholesale iCvJ 1 I CQgt has passe(j f q SjjjL jf" fk P' 106 n theS0' t:' Gap CS&J CL? ' 11 You acrtualI5' Pay ri m J'"' 11 less tlian Present ff-t rt' wp' I factory cost. r'vJ E5L -! lif? iNP Rather than ad- : ayjj '"I Cl 81 vanco our Prlces 0: IO djk " . we will s'.ve our : 4 4 J -m jr patrons the bene- 'Xji f0 Jjr fits of the low Brown Kid jr Jf jrfl market which pre- IP Jt Jif vanedwhenthes. ijL Kid with Jp j7 SW' were purchased." TSJd K V km pl f n with k I d r- 1 fA P" y n They come in welt soles, ??'? 0 Jf with Louis or Cuban heels. li'S f ; j f All good sizes. Early shop- , Jl'. i 0 ping is advisable at these JfC Ra&J f prices. oLm S See Our Window. j1 Holeproof Hosiery 'S HARDING'S A' WALtC-OWEH v SHOE STORE, 214 Main Street if cf nf ffwn 1 .ZTf H(3tn& Product? |