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Show WHAT THE STRIKES HAVE DONE. After the British labor representatives representa-tives had spoken in Sacramouto, conveying con-veying a message of co-operation on the part of British labor unions with the war forces of Great Britain, in which union labor had given up many safeguards, the Bee of that city, addressing ad-dressing itself to the laboring men of the United States, said: "While the English labor representatives represen-tatives wore delivering this vital mos-sage mos-sage to their American comrade,' in the senate chamber at Sacrmnnto there was coming over the Aosoeiatrri Press wire the story of the strike of six hundred workmen at the Baltimore shipbuilding yards, lying up work on American emergency shipbuilding This was becnusv the striker demanded de-manded i further increase In wages, which had been raised under rigrof--!ment only a few weeks back. And that item of news was only a sample of the recorded acts of American work linen every fSW days since we onterfd I the war nearly a year ago, each act in ! jurlng efficiency, decreasing production produc-tion and thus Inducing a delay in offensive of-fensive at the front which must cause the sacrifice of many additional Amor ican lives, even If It does not eventual ly lose us the war. ; "The loss sustained In this way 'through Ill-considered strikes, instigated insti-gated frequently, without doubt, by enemy aliens and disloyal agitators, has been appalling. During the lirst six months alter we entered the war about 1.000,000 men went on strike in this country, some for a day or two. i some for six months or more. Sixty I i tive of these strikes were analyzed, and In these alone there was involved a loss of 1,795,981 working days. "And that appalling los.s has continued, contin-ued, notwithstanding the patriotic appeals ap-peals of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor;! the efforts of the president of the United States and his secretary of labor la-bor to prevent strikes by friendly conciliation; con-ciliation; and the solemn warnings of British government heads and British labor leaders that we profit by their Munders, and save ourselves and the world the catastropbies that must result re-sult from continuance by us of similar mistakes. Our shipbuilding program Is : far behind, M is our airplane prorram General Pershing complains that be has not yet an American airplane, and must rely for defense on the French planes Notwithstanding the roseate assurances from the secretary of war the fact is publisned that the docks of the Atlantic seaboard are crowded with supplies and munitions which cannot be shipped across to France until un-til September. The comparison thus made between the conduct of British labor and American labor in connection connec-tion with the work of opposing the common enemy, does not speak well on its face for the patriotism or the good Reuse of American labor "And yet American labor is loyal: the message now being delivered to American workmen throughout this country by official representatives of their British comrades and allies, comes at the suggestion of Samuel Gompers. president of the American Pi d ration of Labor, whose personal representative travels with the Englishmen Eng-lishmen and introduces tbem. and the message itself and Its evident, though unspuKou, rvcuuuueuuiiLiuu IB iavui- ably received apparently by tho labor audiences to whom it Is delivered. "When they, in the face of the present pres-ent crisis and the repeated and earn est warnmps civen up, are we still jeo-pardizing jeo-pardizing the success of the war, the life of this nation and the future of world democracy by permitting the continuance of industrial strife when it can be prevented1" Since the foregoing comment was given publicity, a general agreement has been reached by which the organized organ-ized labor forces of the country have declared against strikes and hav subscribed to a form of conciliation by i which a commission Is to decide all disputes. oo |