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Show WHO PAYS. Some 400,000 coal miners went on strike in the bituminous coal fields for a six hour, five day week. As many riiore steel workers are on strike for the "closed shop". In New York drivers for butchers and provision" dealers are on a strike, for a 6-hour day and a scale running from ?102 minimun to $245.50 a Mil ll. ' In 1'aciliic coast cities, tailors are on strike for a 45-hour week with wage scale of $1.00 an hour, including includ-ing full pay for holidays when no work is performed. Thousands of other strikes are. in progress all over the country. Some of the strikes are justified by conditions; condi-tions; others are political and . with the avowed intention of confiscating property and bringing on revolution. American workmen are losing sight of one great point: It is-their own job they are endangering, their own dinner buckets which will be emptied, their own homes which will suffer and their own nation which will be. crippled. , Following commands of radical, labor leaders in their present pro-x gram of 'destruction, is like follow- ... - ing the Pied Piper, tire music ii sweet but the end will be swift. Labor can go the limit, wreck industry in-dustry and cause a panic. This will automatically settle the labor problem. pro-blem. The "open" or "closed" shop will be a tiling of the past for men will be glad to work for anything they can get in any shop. Labor better think it over. At present it is like a drunken sailor spending the savings of a successful voyage and taking no thought for to-morrow. Its leaders, who are not workers, but who draw high salaries from the toil of labor, are like the leeches who prey oil the sailor, when the crash comes, it is the sailor and labor who pays. |