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Show i .i in ait Subscriber Makes Observations Wants the People to Think A recent editorial, in one of our leading papers vehemently denounced the conditions in the labor unions and the government govern-ment which-necessitate the shipment of coal from West Virginia Vir-ginia to Utah, gives ground for much discussion All will agree that such a condition as the above is a reflection on the intelligence intel-ligence of the people of this nation. Does the cause for such a condition rest upon the shoulders of John L. Lew is, labor, or ! the present administration? It seems the cause goes back beyond the time of President Ro.-welt, to the presidents and congressmen who allowed private industry, oureconomic royalists, royal-ists, if you please, to grind labor under its feet for generations denying them the common rights of human beings, say nothing of the'r constitutional rights, are the ones responsible for the present chaotic condition of labor Labor has been groud down, criminalized, lied about, denied de-nied a voice in congress, the press, the cousts rnd any other avenue through which it may have tried to get justice until it got justice in our day. Go into the Industrial Spy Racket, trouble labor has had with the police of certain cities, court injunctions, and news paperarticles and you will find that labor has never enjoyed the common rights guaranteed men by the constitution. Now that labor has been given a chance to secure iis constitutional con-stitutional rights, granted it by a humane administration at Washington, it is no doubt somewhat off balance and acting i unwisely in some cases In no wise so criminally as industry j has acted against labor, and industry did so under the guise j of law , j Is it any more unwise to ship coal from Virginia to. Utah I than to ship the millions of tons of iron nnd steel we use from ; Pittsburg orBirmingham, paying the freight charges and losing the labor that rightfully belongs to Utahns, were a properly adjusted economic system evolved? We have the iron, the coal and every lacility for making this steel, yet we are denied consideration. "Oh," say the pseudo economists, "we haven't the mills for smelting," etc Neither did we have the coal un-till un-till the mines were developed. Another question : How about keeping the price of sugar 300 per cent above what it should be just to keep New York sugar interests in extra spending money? Subscriber. St Geo |