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Show IMKTBflg7Mdft TH.UNB4 Among the many plants of the I General Electric compaay, one of the larger Is la. Lynn, Maw, .and. there tereral thousands of employes have been at work tor the most part oa government contracts. They hare been aklng, that la, various forms of electrical apparatus on the Immediate Imme-diate possession of which, In con-slant con-slant and adequate supply, the success suc-cess and the safety of our soldiers abroad In no small measure depend. de-pend. I Last week a majority of theso men and women, for reasons which they did not deam It worth while to disclose to tho company official, went on striko and the works, had to shut down. Saturday night the strikers, having nothing else to do, organized what they called n "voc-tory "voc-tory parade," Its object as proclaim-; cd was to celebrate tho news that General Foch had turned the German Ger-man drives in tho German driven driv-en an object, of course, cro-crery cro-crery good American citizen, crc- .dtiablo to every good American citizen citi-zen and one which every American jworkingman or worklngwoman has tho best of rights to proclaim his own or hers. That is .all workers have it who aro giving to General Foch and the several armies ho la .using to such noble purposes and 1 ,wlth such brilliant results the help that Is their due who are as forgetful for-getful of private and personal Interests In-terests as are the men who are J risking and often losing their lives is carrying out the General's plan to' save, the world from, the horrors of German domination. 1 But that these particular work-'era, work-'era, or any like them, should venture ven-ture to share and express rejoicings in the results achieved on the salient ' that had, but no longer has, Chateau Thierry for apex, shows a curious 'callousness to public judgment a 'strange Inappreclation of the position posi-tion In which they placo themselves by striking at this time. No doubt the strikers aro vehement in denunciation denun-ciation of the miserable profiteers ( who have been sending defectlvo raincoats over to General Pershing's men. Presumably some of them havo had much or something to say (about an Imagined relation, between tour entrance into tho war and tho gains of munition makers and money mon-ey lenders. Dut wherein do they themselves differ from the most sordid sor-did and greedy of profiteers. Their participation in a "victory parade" Is well, call Is a sorry Joko .and let It go at that. N. Y. Times. |
