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Show THE LAST STRAW' ? ? Before the latest coal mine strike, a coal company issued the following statement: "... Four hundred thousand men directly employed in the coal mines are going to quit work, in spite of an offer of an additional wage increase of 18 '- cents an hour. They will lose as a result of this strike approximately approxi-mately five million dollars per day. "These miners, by striking, will reduce the supply of all goods and merchandise for themselves and the public, since manufacturers manufac-turers engaged in making goods are largely dependent upon coal for fuel, power or transportation. The effect of this shortage will continue for many weeks after the miners go back to work. Millions of workers in manufacturing, transportation and distribution distribu-tion industries will lose working time and wages as a result of this coal strike. The cumulative cost to America will probably be greater than the amount of the requested British loan of three billion seven hundred million dollars." The strike weapon as it is being applied today, is actually threatening the survival of the nation. Whole industries are brought to a dead standstill at command of a few men. Countless thousands of persons willing will-ing and ready to work, persons who have never had any trouble with the individual companies where they are employed, are denied the right to work and ordered off the job. The effects of this gigantic labor monopoly mo-nopoly are hitting at the heart of our country coun-try industrial production. High production produc-tion is needed now, critically. We are not getting it thanks to strikes. The action of flip fnal minpvs ronv hp fVip Qtvciw tVint will break the camel's back a patient public. Starting with NRA and continuing thru the Wagner Act and the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which exempts labor unions .from the anti-trust laws, the government of, by and for the people has slept in the same bed with labor leaders, for purely political and no other puiposes. They have builded a Frankenstein that has turned on them and threatens to destroy our entire economy along- with the men who built the infernal racket. Such labor unions as the International Typographical Union, in which we maintained main-tained membership for many years, are truly representative of the working man. A strike must be sanctioned by three-fourths of the local membership, after many months of negotiation fail to bring an agreement, and then must be approved by the international officers after their attempts at settling the dispute fail. No such procedure is carried out in the misnamed "labor unions" that are causing the nation-wide strife today. A Hitler-like dictator orders millions of men to throw down their tools and if they fail to walk off the job, goons wreck their homes and assault their families. It's time the labor laws were changed. The men who built the Frankenstein must install in its innards a control device that will actually control it or they along with the American System will be destroyed. We believe in labor unions. We don't believe be-lieve in dictators, political, social or labor. The strikes have cost Milford citizens, merchants, mer-chants, laborers, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and not a man in Milford has been on strike. With Congressmen coming up for election next November, they will be unusually attentive to suggestions of. the voters. Maybe it would be a good idea to let 'em know that we'd rather have the fast-growing wings of dictatorial labor leaders lead-ers clipped NOW than have those gnarled wings beat us into serfdom in the immediate future. Bring the monster under control or it will destroy America as surely as bees make honey. |