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Show INDUSTRIAL DESERT- ERS ! I - . i No nioro" Indefensible strike was oyer called than that which j-ecent-1y agitated th town of Mullan, Ida-lio.'ln Ida-lio.'ln Coour d'Aleno, and tompor- .arlly shut off production from somo of tho largest mines of the district. 'Tho situation is rendered worse by the fact that sixty per cent of men Ion tho payrools are of foreign birth and naturally subject to suggestion, that their hlh-hnnded actions were -dictated by enemy alien influence. Tjsld is no time for'temporlzing wif uch men, whother thoy be working under orders of the Kaiser or I. W. TV. If, they refuse to attend to their Jobs at high wages, that this country coun-try may produce1 tho motalsjneedcd -for tho proper conduct of tho war, thon they should one nnd all bo fiont wlienco thoy came or to tho I front lino trenches now held by patriotic pat-riotic men who defend their country coun-try at a dollar, a day after relinquishing relinquish-ing highly paid Jobs to sneaking en-'emles en-'emles of liberty: Mining Truth. With high wage3 now In force, sfjlkos In nny of tho west's great mining regions nro Inexcusable A i man who drops his pick nnd shovel to strike Is the worst kind of a coward cow-ard and a slacker. |
