| Show Observer Interprets Strike Impulse As Ancient Inclination to Hate Work By BURTON KLINE In Ili three s states of the union silk Ik strikers have been out for weeks For or weeks in several reveral ever other states 00 miners have been en raising not coal but ut Cain In many sunny more states the federal department of labor has been sweating for months to settle Industrial Indus Indus- trial rial disputes involving workers s by the ic hundred thousand Millions of Americans ask Why these lese innumerable strikes The question is asked with the greater point in view of the surrounding surround- surround ing ng facts Business is unmistakably picking icking up lustily up-lustily lustily in spots With and more of the idle back at work ork labor has taken its first step forward orward in four dismal years With the new rights handed banded it on a platter by y the recovery act it lifts its face ace to toa toa a future brighter than any before it itin itin in n the thousands of years since there thereas has as been such a thing as labor Why is the worker thus kicking himself in the face face- These unions being being beng be- be ing ng so powerful why dont don't they muzzie muzzle zie le their men inca Why Thy are these strikes allowed Why do they happen They are allowed because they are re outlaw affairs guerilla affairs guerilla warfare They hey happen because those who wage them hem long out of work are now out of f hand Recovery from a depression has always always al al- al ways bred these things They are happening in response to a social urge that not all the unionism on earth could control Rising out of a past darkened by some ome of the most mournful pages in history labor has had placed before it t at last thanks to the recovery ac act a 1 new flight of stairs These outlaw strikers aim to take the whole flight light at t a bound LOOKING BACKWARD What is afoot in the ranks of labor just now c can n best be seen through a squint quint at its post Probably humanity's deepest trait up p to recent years has been with been with good reason reason hatred hatred of work The Themore Themore Themore more aggressive had always saddled the e work of the world on the more unfortunate The unfortunate had al al- ways striven their utmost to get out of f doing it and the fortunate had always al al- ways mortally feared that the attempt might succeed succeed and and had taken to the lash ash sometimes to see that it Now something has changed the face tace of all this at last the last the marvelous machinery of the past t ten n years that has taken the drudgery out of work It t has taken more than the drudgery it t has taken the stigma from toil Man is master of a miraculous machine mahine ma ma- chine hine that not only does his work but gives him a Q sense of personal power le He le is no longer a worker but has the f feeling celing otone like he he be rest of his countrymen attached to the great forces running the world This same advanced machinery accused of tossing toss- toss Sing ing ng millions of men their jobs has put a whole new psychology into the he minds not of workers alone but bu butof butof of everyone else F The ancient struggle to climb out o of doing the work is gone Its place is filled with pride in skill and power and accomplishment That much o othe of the age age- age oli ll quarrel between those who own and profit and those who toil and take wages has vanished But something something some some- something thing of the workers worker's old grudge against the rest of humanity remains A SOCIAL STRUGGLE The yorker worker no longer need climb out of work But he has had another inveterate hope hope to to climb out of a subject class out class out of the mine and the ditch owned by somebody else out ese bu ut of the many bossed by the lew Into few into something nearer equality with th the rest in managing the life of the whole And the recovery act is 18 important fo for more than allotting him wages eta and hours suited to his worth It offer him at last the stair to that hope Dc Deep p down these strikers ar are crop- crop pIngs out of the old family feud over the inequalities of rank and fortune fortun and power that work has always alway brought into the world They are a blind movement to a 1 new order o of things a social struggle of magnitude not yet ct measured I Curiously enough its drift and character have been sensed at least in n unexpected quarters In the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York end of Inside Stuff Mr Mc Me- lullin Mullin lately reported important Wallstreet Wall Wallstreet street treet fig figures res as disposed to let the American Federation of Labor go the limit mit in organizing the country The street reet still controls business and business busi busi- ness ess opinion It speaks for industry as s a whole It thus can smooth the federations federation's way by he simple proc proc- essof razing the wall that has ros blocked unionization of the country since there has been such a thing as is organized labor abor Has the street reet seen writing on the wall Or is it as s other intimations hint lint a quiet girding of the loins while the ie enemy does the same for another killing war on the old battleground The air is full of prophecy Forces under cover about the country are said by those who know to be muster muster- lag ing ng for tor it IL And a clash of the two antagonists an an- can mean the death of both and both of them know it The alternative is the partnership planned lanned in the recovery act and supported sup sup- ported by the people people people-a a partnership at i last of fact and not the old one of words As an index of the temper of labor abor deep down in th the ranks strikes today oday are a warning of what well may happen appen otherwise If It they serve as such they may yet yete be e worth all the loss and md gnashing of teeth they cause S Copyright McClure Newspaper Syn Syn- |
