IF I SHOULD STRIKE?

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 43, 14 November 1919, Page 7

IF I SHOULD STRIKE?

UNDERPAID VICE-PBESIDENT OP U.S.A. In a reiuarkabe interview published in tlho Chicago "Tribune," Mr. Thomas Marshall, Vice-President of tho United States, and President of the Senate, confesses that ho lins never lived within his ealary, and has often thought of striking; for a higher one. If ho decides to strike, ho says, on tho ground of the higili cost of living, justice would demnnd that ho should show , how ho spent his talury, in order that arbiters might determin? whether it is tho high cost of living or tho cosO of high living that ails him. . "If I should strike on tho theory that my services aro wortlh more than I am receiving," the Vice-President explained, "then how I 6peud my salary is nobody's business , save my wife's." Ho dcejared that Oho real evil which wo aro'confronting to-day is iho high cost of leisure, and lie spoke in a censorious way, because ho himself wn? tho laziest of the lazy! He hud tried to ease hia own conscience "in holding a position which has so little labour collected with it" by rPMlliiifftlio mimlierless nights of work he had performed in tho last, but he was jiot euro whether ho was justified. The salary <if Mr. .Marshall as VicePresident of tho United Stabs is a year, as compared with tho President's XIo.OOO.