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Show EXTENSION OF SABOTAGE. HAVING an eight-hour day at wages practically fixed by themselves, them-selves, the boiler-makers at Portland, Oregon, started a new strike for a 44-hour week, with half holiday Saturday. On the stickers employed by the I. W. W. under convicted Hay-"vood Hay-"vood was the word "Sabotage" in large type. Is not the above a form of sabotage? The Haywood stickers bore the legend : "Slow-down ! The hours are long. The pay is small. So take your time and buck the all." Are not the boiler-makers "bucking" production? Contrast this with the hours of the farmer or average business man who is patriotic and devoted to the welfare of the nation and winning the war. The call for a 44-hour working week is the call to slow down and increase double-pay it is the extension of organized sabotage in the ship yards. |