Show ITS IT'S if S A QUESTION OF LOYALTY It is not the proper thing for the workmen in the shipyards to demand demanda a dollar an hour for their service while the American boys who are baring their breasts to the Germans Germanson on the French front receive only a dollar a day it Is not fair for the coal miners to ask another increase in n wages after having made a wage agreement f for tor r a term of ot two years at athe t the he time of the thc l last sl raise ralso of ot 4 45 i c cent per er ton It is quite useless for PreSIdent Pres Pre Ident dent Gompers Secretary tary Morrison and the other federation leaders to keep on telling us that labor is loyal loy hey loyal al while these things are going on and we quite agree with Senator Thomas of or Colorado when he declares that hat labor Is exploiting the treasury of the United States This country Is at war and in many of the industries labor abor Is exempt from conscription The Tho wages paid these workers at a the present time are the highest ever known cnown and no more money should be taken from Crom the treasury to purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase their loyalty It lOs Is true that the tho cost of lI living ing is very high all over the world and that there will be a great amount of suffering suf nut fering among the the roar Io r of ot Europe during the coming winter Food prices are always high In war time however and the struggle for tot existence existence exist exist- ence hi in belligerent countries Is near near- ly always very hard The United Unite States is a an exception to this rule because of the great demand for labor labor la la- bor and the prevailing e p high wages There is q quite ite a contrast contras between this country and England where the average wage Is not over 10 a week and where th the food rood prices are as high as on this thi side of ot th the ocean We Ve reJoice rejoice rejoice re re- re- re joice In the fact that wages are ae high In Ii America and that it is as well with witt itle It la But there must bo a limit rl ll P jl up demands m Q I Ithe b. b bI bIthe the men who have hav been emi from duty on the firing line in order orde that they may mine coal make munitions muni munItions and do various other kinds 01 of work in order that we may win the war and the limit should be set n a athis athis this time In order to raise money for Cor war purposes the country will I 1 l' l taxed to the limit by the tho provision of ot the new new revenue bill and the people will be called upon to purchase bon to the extent of or sixteen billions of or dollars between be now and the end of ot the fiscal year This money should be used for the purpose for which It Itis itis itis is raised and not for the purpose of oC keeping labor quiet during the most crucial period of our existence as a nation Strenuous opposition has been made to the work or fight amendment amendment amend amend- ment to the new draft law because the labor leaders desire to use the strike method of extorting more mone money from the government At the same samo time we have been repeatedly told that there would be no more strikes during the war If labor tabor is indeed loyal there will be no cessation cessation cessa- cessa tion ion of work in any of the th war industries industries Indus- Indus tries ries and no attempts made to extort higher wages by Ly threatening strikes or hinting that the labor leaders may maycot mi from not cot be able to prevent the tho men unless work as individuals q quitting wage vage concessions are granted Weare We Weare are ire taking millions of oC men for forwar war service who have havo no choice in the into drafted put matter They are their heir country and sen seni the he uniform of forth orth to kill or be killed These men are entitled to all the tho consideration them on account thai ha can be shown of the sacrifices they are compelled good It is make for the common to o who no more moro than just to the men comprise our forces on land and s sea a within the draft age that hat all men forthwith limits Units who will not work be i Inducted Into the army It is quite useless to say that this corporation corporatiOns will vill give the grinding advantage over their em- em an undue loyes for it is the government that thatIs footing the bills in iii all the war Is s now Industries and the most liberal a al have already been made specially especially in the cases of the coal coa and the mu mu- miners the shipbuilders workers We hope Fuel A Administrator Administrator Ad Ad- t. t Garfield will remain firm firmin make concessions to In n his refusal to the ho miners and aurl that the board oard will not grant the demands for hour and arid trimmings mad a. a dollar an shipyard workers and then we by jy the shall hall see what the tho promise of no strikes during the war is worth and line Une upon the also Iso bo ho enabled to get a n loyalty of labor The country is In danger anger of being ground to pieces between between be- be tween the c capitalistic profiteers profiteer ana ana the he labor profiteers and drastic rem rem- remedies edies dies should be applied In in both cases We believe that capitalists are entitled en- en en- en n- n titled to fair returns return's upon their In- In Investments Investments vestments and that the laborer Is worthy of his hire But there we stop top We are against extortion Such practices are criminal under ordinary ordinary ordinary or or- circumstances In time war they hey amount to treason treason treason-SaIt Salt Lake Lakes Lake Tribune |