Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 82, Hammond, Lake County, 23 September 1919 — Page 4

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THE TIMESTuesday September 23. 1910

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themselves are talking up in behalf of any scheme to make the American army do police duty in Europe for .i generation to come. The thought in the minds of these men has been how to get out of Europe and etay out, not how to get. over there and stay there. They look upon all this hysterical talk about their sacrifices being in vain unless President Wilson has his way about everything as rnre flapdoodle and bunk; and they are right.

HAS THE COST BEEN COUNTED? In the great steel and Iron strike that has broken from the Kockies to the Alleghanies It may be taken for granted that both sides are prepared for eventualities. It will be a great pity if they have not counted the cost. There is every reason to believe that the heads of the great steel Industries are not averse to a show-down. In fact, it is reported that the United States Steel Corporation welcomes th test. It would seem, without a canvass of the official figures, that the union leaders have not been talking wildly when they asserted that they ui. u uue rued ana iiuu iiuxui are v,iuioai enoiiga men u upcaa.LU tuexii, ii vui Uui.uia.iiy loliow mat luey iuusi ciotc uuwii Uiu ceiuij ij oLn.ia.Le. 'liie majority of UieLa x.ia pieiiy weary oi muusUiai tune and wutn once uiey uiooe uown it may be aitta vnai tiien? 'lhe side witu tue iaige-at cotters will be la the bet position u i;lay a waiuns game and a long protracted, struggle. Both labor and capital have made money during the war and the months succeeding it, but there is no question about who has made- the mot money or who is able to hold out the longest. Winter is coming on and even in normal ' times when work is plentilul and w ages good there is always more or less suffering, but a strike of the steel hosts lasting into the winter months will bring a greater amount of suffering to the unemployed than they have ever known before, for with the steel workers calling out other crafts in sympathy strikes to force the issue, the number of men unemployed will in all likelihood be stunningSo that it is to be hoped that the cost has been counted. This, of course, is saying nothing of the possibility of even more dire results in loss of life and property. No one can tell what the day will bring forth or where disorder will break. It is a tituation that, viewed as optimistically as it could be, is not encouraging. This country faces conditions that push every other contingency, or condition not associated with industry and labor far into the background.

THE DOOR TO MONOPOLY. No better scheme for crushing all competition and delivering the country into the hands of monopoly and profiteering could be devised than that of ef.tabliahing a universal compulsory profit sharing and employes shop management scheme, because under such a system no one could run a losing enterprise to the point where It could get on its feet. All business would go into the hands of corporations established on a paying basis. Their business would be stabilized and profits guaranteed.

But the public, which would thus lose the benefit of competition through the establishment of new enterprises, would be the "goat" of the whole arrangement. To "soak" the general, unorganized and uncapitalized public 5eems to be the joint purpoe of the profiteer and the demagogue politician. Under existing conditio, the adoption of profit sharing and co-operative management of industrial plants is gaining favor with established industries. It cannot be forced upon all industries, whether losing or gaining, made or making proposition, w ithout opening the way to monopoly and profiteering on a scale never before dreamed of by the American people.

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WHO COMMISSIONED THEM? The Wichita. Eagle says that those who want to Americanize the league of nations covenant will, if they succeed, tell the "boys who fought in the late war," that "the glory of the army and the navy of the United States is gone like a dream in the night." Some of the war's non-combatants seem to think that the fighting men of the late wax merely reflect the transcendent glory of Mr. Wilson. The fighting men seem to believe that theirs is the glory and President Wilson's Is the reflection. It's all a question of whether greatness i3 a matter of doing or of talking. It seem3 strange that the oldiers themselves do not know that their war was a failure unless President Wilson gets his particular league of nations scheme through without the dotting of an "i" or the crossing of a "t." Administration organs talk as if they were authorized to speak for the soldiers. Where do they get their commission? Mighty few of the soldiers

THE ILLUSIONS OF HOPE. It is given out that at the industrial conference to be held In October, President Wilson will advocate reduction

in the cost of living as a solvent for the vexed problems that now confront the country. That sounds very well, indeed, but really there's nothing to it. Reduction in the cost of living simply means that people must live more economically and that the necessities of life must be sold

at lower prices than they at present command. It is perfectly proper, of course, to advocate economy

and thrift, and r.o one will denv that the country stands

ii great need of the practice of these enduring virtues

yet our common sense tells us that when wages are high

as they are at present, work of all kinds seeking workers,

and money plentiful, the temptation to spend is too much for the average citizen. He not only takes all of the necessaries of life but he dips deeply into luxuries as well. There is good reason to believe that fewer people put money by in flush times than they do during those periods when the menace of low wages and a lack of work put caution in the heart of men and prompt them to provide for the Impending rainy day. Nor is there more to hope for from the recommendation that the prices of commodities be reduced. To be sure, a number of "profiteers" may be found, but they always have operated and always will operate- They may be somewhat more predacious now than during ordinarytimes, but granting that they can be effectually checked for the time being, the fct would still remain that high prices would obtain. For production costs more today than ever before- very much more. There Isn't a commodity that goes on the market today that goes on at the price it went a year ago and most of them range from fifty to a hundred and fifty per cent higher than five years ago. This coupled with the fact that the demand foi everything is greater than the supply, and that those demanding have the money to plank down, supply precludes the possibility of any period of sustained lower prices. We might just as well make up our minds to the fact that high prices are here to ftay until production overtakes the demand. And production will never overtake demand, we may be sure, as long as men with plenty of money refuse to work or to work only intermittently. President Wilson, If he is depending upon the advocacy of economy and a reduction In the cost of living, to solve the problems that will confront the labor conference, is building upon the shifting sands. For with conditions remaining as they are, what he proposes ia manifestly impossible. Fort Wayne News.

THE only trouble ABOUT collecting money for worthy causes IN a elce quiet unobtrusive way ET sending- out letters sayln? it ts needed VERT badly AND will you please help Is that ALHOST everybody mislays the let'er or USUALLY flrei it in the w astebaket. WHEN a man's underwear GETS isirgedy he throws it away, hut WHEN a woman's underwear GETS rasgedy she SAVES It and wears it around lhi house. THE trouble with the youth who IS wearing: his first moustache is that HE thinks he looks almost AS human as you do. SOMEBODY is always

TAKING the joy out of life and "WHEN one of our dear girl friends whose hand "WE love to clasp said to us yesterday, THAT we looked particularly well for a MEMBER of the 41-46 class A LOW-BROWED cuss standing nearby HAD to mutter in his malignant way "SHE says that to everybody." ALMOST every professional man BELIEVES that after he GETS too old to practice his profes sion HE can go out and buy a farm AND just make scads of money. ON"E great advantage of heir.g a

bachelor is THAT If you don't like your meals TOU can go out and change your boarding house. PECULIAR anomaly about the labor situation IF the men strike while the iron's hot THE furnaces will freeze up. WE have to admit that a certain noble WOMAN has such complete mastery OVER us that we have stopped CALLING her our better half but ALWAYS after this "Our four-fifths."

MY masters! Why, prunes used to be

the VERY laughing stock of society NOW look at 'em, 50 cents a pound! MANY a woman's idea of BUSINESS is that all THE money taken in is clear profit. SO this is autumn, eh?

WELL, we shall believe when they

prove it BUT not until then THAT this steel strike is going to be the AMERICAN' worklngmen's SHIBBOLETH calumet and oriflamme FOR these beautiful fall months. WE would like to advise everybody NOT to do all the talking UNLESS they are up on a platform AND raid for it. WHEN a fat woman tries to act kittenish IT is a rign that she hasn't been to a circus TO see that an elephant is RESPECTED because IT has sense enough to act dignified.

police approached the lines of the strikers, the latter presented a solid front. The police remonstrated: they argued with the men; pleaded with them not to bloclc the traffic. In vain. Not a sign or fctir of submission in that crowd of

strikers. They s'ood as a well. It is claimed. Then something dreadful happened. No one knows exactly what, as yet. Thi police claim that one of the strikers endeavored to disarm one of the police, that a brick was thrown, that between one and four shots came from the ranks of the strikers. All of this is denied by the strikers. Whatever the truth may be. in an intt.nt fire was literally pouring into the serried phalanx of the strikers. When the shining runs and r:fles of police ceased with the terrible ong of death and woe. the ground was strewn with the dead and dy:ntt and wounded; the air was filled with shrieks and curses and

imprecations against the polire. Seemingly none of the fallen men were armed. Thus ended the first parade led by the American flag. Never has Hammond in its entire history witnessed a more serious parade than the one which followed a few days subsequent to the preceding events. It was the funeral procession or parade. In which the bodies of the four fallen strikers were carried to their graves. Once more did the American flag lead the parade. This time two emblems were carried, the one by a soldier, the other by a sailor boy of the United States. Thfn followed a band, playing in tones that were scarcely audible-, solmen and mournful strains. After this came a battalion cf United States sol

diers. Then silently, driven by their in

visible motors, four hearses rot led slowly along, escorted on either side by the pall bearers, and followed by the respective widows of the deceased men. Then came a sight, heart-rending in Its effect. No human eye remained dry that gazed upon the flock of Innocent children, following, the mortal remains of their fathers to the last place of rest. Four of the larger girls each carried a cross of green, the final gift of the world to those who were soon to repose far distant from the toil and turmoil and the strikes of earth. There followed in the parade a multitude of women. After these came hundreds of men. Each group of a hundred was preceded by an American flag, draped in black. The men marched, silently, orderly and with heads uncovered. Thus the second parade was very con-

I spicuous for the great number of Amer

ican flags. To the careful observer various thoughts presented themselves. If he studied the features of those marching in the parade, without any prejudice

whatever toward rationalities, he had

to admit to himself, that at leas', fifty per cent of those inarching in this second Parado did not owe allegiance to th American flag. Their home was far be ond the pea. Many of them, proba fully one-half of them, never intend--.) oi intend to become citizens. They cam. to this cour.try in order to make money, and th"u r-turn to their home-country, there to lead an easier life on account of the higher value of the American dollar. It speaks well that these peop! put such great trust in the American flag. Withall. they must remember that the flag is not something magical, which can be used merely in order to avert, danger under any given conditions. That t'ag stands for law and order, and anyone who threatens to over'.nrow lav and order is not entitled to the protection of the flag. On the contrary su -'i a ..no insults the flag by endeavoring to have it coor, what it can never d shame and disorder.

A second thought coming to the unbiasrd witness of the foregoing events is this. Strikes have never yet been known on account of their regularity, on account of their conformity to law and order. Consequently It was apparently not right for a group of strikers, many of them not even citizens, to shieH themselves behind the American colrrs. They should have foreseen th.it disorders were sumost inevitable under the circumstances, and that therefore, the flag should not have been drawn into the turmoil. Furthermore, if it ev-i-b proved that the strikers were th aggressors, that the police were In tht right, then it was wrong to carry th i Slap even in the funeral parade. sin i

J no matter how innocent, how true, thr

fallen micrht have been in their prlvatf lives, they had associated with rebel tind as Kueh forfeited any claim to loyal, ty. And' one who falls in rebellion against constituted lawful authority has no right to the honorable protection of the flag. A READER.

APPEALING TO THE CONSTITUTION. Almost anything Is unconstitutional that you do not like. One can just as easily contend that the constitution Itself Is unconstitutional. In fact, such a contention

Is what all these pleas amount to. Their universality fairly obliterates all constitutional restraint itself. This dilemma ought to be averted. There ought to be some way to prevent a man rallying on the constitution when a case goes against him on an issue of fact. We can see no remedy for this except the courts take It la hand and resolutely deny an appeal to the constitution when the fact3 are decisive against the appellant. We have b?en such worshippers of the law that our religion in respect to it has finally become a superstition.

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TWO FASASZ3 AITS TBI Aim SI CAN S-LACr. Editor Times: Recently the American flag was made to serve diverse purposes in the city of Hammond. For almost three months a strike had been in progress at the Standard Steel Car Works, which employs approximately two thousand men. Most of these men are so-called "foreigners." Many of them have come from Russia, Greece, Armenia, and from countries in which the Slavenian languages predominate. At first it would seem that the strike was "orderly." Then there came a period during which bricks and gas pipes, and substances of a similar nature, were used to make an "Impression" upon the police forces, who were trying to keep up-right law and order. When the patience and power of the police department had been exhausted, the state militia was called upon.

It was an apparently easy matter for the militia to re-establish order. In view of the guns and bayonets of the soldiery, the strikers quietly and without further molestation dispersed. Hardly had the militia been withdrawn when trouble broke out anew. The strikers were determined rot to acquiesce In conditions as they existed. On Tuesday morning. September the 9th. the sun had fully risen. In its

splendor of fall, over the one-time Calumet marshes, now interspersed by factories and houses of laborers. Work had been resumed on the previous Monday at the Standard Steel by a number of working men. On Tuesday morning, others to the number of about two hundred were about to take up their wanted occupations. Apparently the strikers were dissatlsfled with this turn of events, and decided o hold a large parade in protest of thin Btep which was being taken by those who returned to work. What the real purpose of the strikers was, could not hs yet be ascertained. The facts in the case are these, so far as obtainable from reliable sources:

Headed by an American soldier, bearing the American flag, the strikers, probably a thousand strong, marchei six abreast through the streets in the neighborhood of the Standard Steel Car Works. From knowledge now availabl. it would seem that the strikers had been warned to refrain from violence. Such.

j at least, is the common report coming

from the ranks of the strikers. Wh.it their real aim was. therefore, is merely a matter of conjecture. On the morning in question more than two hundred men, who had again taken up their regnlar work at the factcry, were about to be conducted to the plant

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