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Show We don't know whether The Alice News has the right slant on the picture or not, but we do know the strikes are costing untold un-told millions of dollars and directly or indirectly indi-rectly effecting the lives of every American citizen. In informal chats with various private pri-vate individuals and businessmen in Mil-lord Mil-lord we heard the blame placed on labor, management, Washington "behind - the -scenes" individuals, the president, the OPA and the Communists. About the only thing everyone agreed upon was that the strikes should be settled and swiftly. According to a report received by The News this week, strikers in the steel industry will have to work nine months to catch up for each week lost through idleness. That is commuted at the wage demanded by the union, not the present wage. Milford needs the electrical appliances, autos, farm machinery, mine equipment, and the countless other items we have been dreaming about and waiting for peacetimes to find availabe. We need a settelment of the labor troubles in the' smelters, so our mines can again start shipping ore, and the railroaders who, were laid off can go back-to back-to work. Three new business enterprises have leased or bought buildings and can only sit-and twiddle their thumbs while waiting for materials to work with or articles to sell. Whether it's management, labor, government gov-ernment or secret alliances, let's find the I nigger in the woodpile, get together on our differences and start enjoying the few years of prosperity we were promised would precede pre-cede the post-war depression. Patriotic Labor waited many long war years for a raise, and certainly has one coming. But if they can't make a deal with the manufacturersand manufac-turersand quick they may find an out-of out-of -patience congress putting so many restrictions restric-tions on them they'd just as well not have any organizations. Nd sense in cutting off a good nose to spite an embarrased face. That's what Hirohito did in 1941. |
