Show NO STRIKING SOLDIERS not long ago a sarilee in a shipyard was averted by compromise which means better belter wages the va arloua arlaus threats to strike among the railroad men was undoubtedly ly the wain maln factor actor in securing their recent aase rase in wages A few ew days ago wp we asked a teacher who for years has drawn a fair salary from the public treasury it if lie he were going to teach teacie this s year to which he replied 1 I dont think so there enough money in it ile he was reminded of a comrade who left a month tor for the army training camp since then this man has become liable to conscription by the new bill and may be given the opportunity to carry a gas mask beside some of his former pupils at 30 per month we think that any class of men who strike for higher wages in these war times do not display the true patriotic spirit we believe in good wages for good work but the men who are getting big wages and stick to their jobs and do good work will be respected along side the men who go to the front when a man lays off a day it may mean that tor for an hour an american soldier may have to face the machine gun fire of the hun without ammunition to defend himself and when men strike lu in the shipyards it may mean the death to many of our soldiers in prance france for the want of food and ammunition that ships carry the soldiers who pay that fearful price are americans and workers and laborers themselves they left jobs in a country where labor is beter paid than it has everdeen ever been paid where the rights of labor are lecog edas as never before inthe history of the world to fight griat such a land 1 may exist in freedom Is it right that I 1 ta they aey must must pay the price Is 11 just that thai they ahey mastbe sacrificed tor for something that can be and has been settled by the comero compro I 1 mise ot of a wage scale no it is not right and an Y when ien the 1 sold ers b will make short work of strikes and strikers the man who has risked his life at the front will have but little sympathy for the well paid workman in any line of industry who escapes rail mil gitary duty and stays at home and strikes |