| Show I Jilt ON oC O vt The Ill official bead organised labor tabor laborIn In to this country roun are r not lIot always t clear du or comet In their theories 6 da profits and W e eMr Mr for example declare deela that employee will not have bave easy I If It they tb try to II wag wages to demand demaud and a dim diminished 4 n I profits profit Workingmen ere are not net responsible for tor the t panic nl and an thy they tta do tIo donot donot not propose P prop to 10 submit to any cutting down of their th s To nJ lower low wage wag w Mr lompre argued further would he M to 10 reduce the consuming MD power of et the people whereas be the need 1104 of or the hour bour la I 1 to t that tut power Th The Kw Hw York Tork Pelt PoM answers answer Mr Oom s argument ment by b asking why then tit he would odd w 11 not double or treble th the w of 0 workingmen world In M time of business depression sad and so se save save an eU tilt the country by b Increasing th Ute ills consume consuming hug ing power of If wage earners earner men The Tb argument of Mr Oe re se reminds minds mind as d of Of the Irishman who M told that If it he would uld purchase pure a certain tain tein make mk of h he could coul save ve halt half of ot the kitchen coal that was wa commonly com commonly I consumed responded respond Ond by bJ na tm marking that t h he b would buy bu two store then and rave nave all u or of It Ite We e have every 11 reason In sympathy i belief ballot and end principle to advocate good pod wags wages for Their wages are n sl aja th last t a t I rise and when the dobI they I are a 0 the Ih to o 0 suffer lufter Just Jt as Si they have IU tn In getting ratling their then b to tn correspond to the th Increased cost coal of Ing there i is usually a general re nt recession cession n work falls tU off and laborers laborer labor have to te take tal leas leu or lose employment In wry 11 case the outcome Is I severe sever upon labor of 01 all aU kind kinds There The can be he belittle little lull question that labor suffers suffer most molt In hi time lime of depression and aa pun pine least In times 11 of Inflation l And yet et aa as an aft elleMa truly remarks remark r the kindest consideration for tor the aIM misfortunes misfortune mort of workingmen suddenly tees face to b face with depression must not w no to the absurdity of such a protest la In their be behalf hah and such a novel MYel theory of 01 waRN wages aa as Mr puts put forth Now it Is ti I a common CO thing tit for trades trade union to sake make Ira agreements with em en employers whereby wages aea shell shall vary vry a athe aa the tb price of the product This Is I nf of the thence wane essence nce of the sliding scale of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and ReI Steel gleet Workers Worker The mote saat e principle enters enter tutu Into ha 1 tiring fixing of the wags wages wa of roal min rv stud and was indeed recognised recognised by hy ft II i appointed at atthe t th the tiny til r f the anthracite coal oal strike w Wr a at thu this moment another II tJ lw In the th case of 01 the tk copper m t f the th l treks IAk region Their wages have h hay boost been 11 reduced and nd they have bate ted the cut without a murmur because the price of topper ha has h fallen JO A per cent According to Mr this wag waa a great nat mistake If It the mine owners owner ow had only kept on paying paI full wage sage the miners miner would have consumed so eo much mesh copper that the price would have been speedily restored re The TIM argument of 01 the tit total alai head of the American Federation of Labor ug sug gU that he too loo is aiming al to tl etab c tab Hh Ush a monopoly of th the ry kind klad that organised labor lallar ha baa often righteously condemned For or what hat Is Ik lbs Inference when hen Ute the head of 01 0 organisms labor will say Ny to th the be American m that what whatever whatever t ever their hardship r and however much their tat t be reduced he h will 11 not consent congest to share abate at t all air U In Inthe Inthe the th common t privations privation but will lahet t upon making asking thaw pay him the sat eat price for foi we he iK ha has to 0 suit sell It If in ill tINt Beef t Trust t should Mould uld take such ruch a post petal lion Jon we w should know whet what t to think of It Why Wily hn humid a we W have hav a s different crt nt opinion aen of or rte II lm import rt when It emanates emanate manat from C a r union la aa ar In lime U of It and Ad activity Beth II labor her the tIM Not all II clam of 01 wage caress carnat a however ac actually c bat In n the he of nuh rush times U Cleft Me bookkeepers book e r newspaper su gad and tradesmen lunan of ot various wrt M not hav It their wags wage raised M with the therise therise rise fI of the a level lewt or of price prieto But ButI the m member mb r of If labor union Invariably bly do I |
