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Show I " WHEN WAGES ARE BEING p4h CONSIDERED. The Standard does not believe any community ever lost much by paying good wages sto competent workers, no more so than has any city lost by having men within its confines who have grown rich. No one ever heard of a man or woman getting very rich on wages, but more than one person has become wealthy profiting by the wages of others. So when the justice of a wage demand is being weighed, those who have rapidly accumulated the good thing? of life should be slow to harshly criticise. There are two Bolshevik forces at work in this country. One is ' the I. W. W., made up of malcontents, with exactions that never can be met. They are agitators who do not pretend to work ; and, strange as it may seem, the other Bolshevik element is composed of many of the well groomed, who have money to burn and are intolerant of even those who petition for fair treatment. j For this country to escape the terrible storms of Europe neither! the I. W. W. nor the aloof task master must prevail. There must be a cultivating of mutual confidence and a sympathetic bond between those who toil for wages and the employers. Otherwise there will be unrest and, finally, hatred, bitterness and class-consciousness which will burst forth in violence. In this great, God-blessed land of ours, there is plenty for all. There is comfort, contentment and peace, if the milk of human kindness is allowed to flow. |