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Show oo WORKINGMEN NOT TO BE CLASSED AS LOAFERS Before the congressional committee, commit-tee, last Tuesday, young Rockefeller testified as to the strike in the coal mines In Colorado owned in great part by his family. In an article bestowing be-stowing much praise on the Rockefellers, Rocke-fellers, Judge C. C. Goodwin, in Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly, says: "And there is nothing difficult to understand about the Colorado strike. The question is the samo that has made Colorado so much trouble; which made the trouble in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts last winter; which has kept Michigan in a turmoil for nine months past, and when set to words is simply whether an organization of loafers and murderers shall take control con-trol of a great business. Hence young Rockefeller's reply that there was nothing to arbitrate was most apt." We have not an intimate knowledge knowl-edge of strike conditions In either Colorado, Massachusetts or Michigan, Michi-gan, but venture the statement that the men who went on strike In those slates had ample grievances. It is not a complete defense in behalf of the Rockefellers and others of great wealth ' to declare, whenever men and women working for them strike that the strikers are loafers and murderers. mur-derers. There never has been a conflict con-flict between the laboring classes and the very rich that those devoted to the aristocratic element have not attempted at-tempted to brush the workers aside as drunkards, loafers and criminals, and yet much of the progress of the world within the past thirty years has been the direct result of organized organ-ized labor insisting on better conditions' condi-tions' for tho struggling "masses nnd resisting grasping' greed in the form of over-bearing task masters. Were there no labor unions today and no determination on the-. part of tho workers to demand their rights, the scale of wnges would be very low and the meanest of employers would set the stanlard of compensation, compensa-tion, working conditions and hours of employment |