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Show UNBEARABLE LABOR EXACTIONS. v The Argonaut of San Francisco. complains that the labor troubles there are keeping back the rebuilding re-building of the city, increasing its cost shamefully, and it says this is not due so much to the increased wage rate as in regulations and exactions of every kind, and declares that :' , "Labor is discrediting itself more by narrowness, " selfishness, a surly attitude toward employers, a disposition dis-position to slight work, and perfect indifference, rather than by its direct demand at the point of wages." It cites some instances. J Carpenters decline to handle surfaced lumber, unless it bears a stamp attesting at-testing that the surfacing was done by union men. Again, it is not allowable to bring in cut stone, since the stone men, under the dictum of their union, will not handle such material. And these are only samples. The same thing seems to be going on in Gold-field. Gold-field. For instance, on Sunday night a restaurant-keeper restaurant-keeper was killed because he gave a meal to a couple of men who did not belong to a union. It seems to us that that kind of work in the United States is something that will have to be either relinquished or put down. When a man cannot go into a restaurant and buy a supper and get it without having the proprietor pro-prietor of the restaurant killed, it is time that kill- ing became general, because a free country that is not free is not worth living in. |