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Show oo WORKERS WHO ASK HIGH WAGE ARE CLASSED PROFITEERS WASHINGTON, Sopt. 17 Senator Sterling of South Dakota, told the senate today that the laborer who uses the strike to demand more than a fair wage during the war is a profiteer. "Large profits' and profiteers are synonymous," he said. "The real profiteer, profi-teer, the man or the corporation who Refuses a fair price and holds and hoards against n time of stress, the workmen getting a fair wage in building build-ing ships who use the strike weapon In time of the government's direst need to compel payment of more than a fair wage these are profiteers. "I think many of them might be summarily dealt with under laws in force. If not, let us enact another law for the purpose of tho national security se-curity and defense and in the interests of justice and humanltv." |