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Show THE ONE GItEAT UNION The Seattle locnl of the lonp;-shorcmen's lonp;-shorcmen's international union liaa threatened to tie up all shipping unless un-less the Waterfront -Employers' Union Un-ion agroes, to hire men only from the list .posted by tho unions. Why should nn Amcricnn lonjr-shoreman lonjr-shoreman be denied the riifht to work if he docs not see fit to join the longshoremen's union and on what authority has any union tho riht to tell an employer ho ,cnnnot hire competent help unless authorized author-ized by the union? This is still n free country which ftunrnntccs a man tho rifrht to life, iberty and pursuit of happiness. This includes the right to work in a lawful law-ful manner. The longshoremen's union and like organizations, including railroad unions and others, must be brought to a realization of the fact that tho one great Union comeB before nil locnl unions nnd that nil Americans are members of the one great Union and under its protection nnd do not have to belong to any local union, unless un-less they wish, ns a condition precedent prece-dent to getting a job or hiring a mnn, The public hns arrived at this conclusion con-clusion and it would be, well for radical rad-ical ngitatorB to take heed. ' The series of railroad strikes from which the country has suffered is tho natural outgrowth and consequence of the nttitude of the administration. North Tonnwanda (N. Y.) Evening News. o Attorney Gcnernl Palmer, appearing appear-ing before the House committee investigating in-vestigating high BUgnr prices, de-finntly de-finntly nsks, "What's all this about?" About a hundred million consumers of sugnr in the United States can tell him if he doesn't know. For yenrs, almost nil that the Democratic aspirants for political office of-fice in the State have talked about is reducing the cost of government to the people and decreasing taxes. And after they get it they invnriably increase the cost of stnte govornment and add a little more to the burden of tho common people. Arknnsns State Republican. |