Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1919 — BUT WELL FEED ’EM AGAIM [ARTICLE]

BUT WELL FEED ’EM AGAIM

When Their Savings Are Exhausted in This Foolish Strike. The big steel strike inaugurated Monday by tfhe labor unions prom* lees to be the greatest strike in the history of this country and perhaps cripple many oUier Industries before It Is ended. YUnlon officials claim that 284,ooo\men are now out, while the steel officials say that less than 40% of the men have quit and that practically all their plants are running. The strike is for a recognition of the union, or to make the steel mills a "closed shop.” Of course the wisdom of men striking where the lowest wages paid Is 18.50 per day and from, that up to |7 for unskilled labor and S7O to |BO per day for skilled labor (for rollers), and an average of 120 per day for smelters, just on the eve of winter, will be questioned bypeople with bralne enough to fill a thimble, but the union leaders care not a fig about this. They know that the "dear people”— fools that they are—will keep the public soup houses well supplied after the savings of the workers have exhausted.