Beaver County News | 1918-08-30 | Page 4 | Shall they Pay this Price?

SHALL THEY PAY THIS PRICE? A STRIKE in the shipyards at Gray's Harbor has been settled by compromise, and the men have returned re-turned to their work. Difficulties are smoothed away. But meantime, twenty-two men were idle. When one man lays off one day in the shipyards ship-yards it means that for an hour and seventeen minutes an American soldier sol-dier will have to face the machine gun fire of the Huns without ammunition ammu-nition to defend himself. And when one man lays off in the shipyards one day it means that the American soldiers sol-diers will be injured in France and one will give his life. The soldiers who pay that fearful price are Americans, Amer-icans, and workers themselves. They have left jobs in a country where labor la-bor is better paid than it has ever been paid, where the rights of labor are recognized as never before in the history of the world, to fight that such a land may exist in Freedom. Is it right that they must pay thts price? Is it just that they must be sacrificed for something that can be. and has been, settled by compromise? "Over The Top," Standifer Shipyard. Ship-yard. No, it is not right and when our soldiers begin coming home they will make short work of strikes, as returned re-turned Canadians did recently with striking Vancouver, B. C, carmen. A man who risks his life at the front has little sympathy for the well paid workman in any line of industry who escapes military duty and stays at home and strikes.