We trust that if these men read in the future that the structural
iron-workers or the house-smiths are striking for a little more
pay and for eight hours' work they will remember those men
working on the ferryhouse, and remember that all of these
iron-workers, like all miners, and many others, earn their bread
at the risk of their lives.
We hope that those who watched the red-hot bolts flying through
the air will remember their sensations when they hear of a strike
among those men, and not say, as they usually do:
"The impudence of union labor must be suppressed. The men are
lazy; that's what's the matter with them. It is all nonsense to
talk about working eight hours. Union labor, if it keeps on,
will ruin this country's commercial supremacy." ----
The trouble with human beings is that their lives are widely
separated and sympathy is killed by ignorance.
The banker does not see, therefore cannot appreciate, the courage
of the man working on an iron beam at the top of a steel frame
300 feet in the air.
The mechanic cannot understand, and therefore cannot appreciate,
the worry, the mental stress of the money man, who must make ends
meet, pay bills, arrange mortgages, find tenants and settle his
union troubles at the same time.
Better acquaintance with each other is what human beings need.
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