ECONOMIC SYMPTOMS.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 18, 20 November 1913, Page 3

ECONOMIC SYMPTOMS.

A short time ago the postal clerks of one of the large western cities passed resolutions calling for the organisation of city and rural carriers, postal and railway mail clerks into one federation. Thus one finds the idea of one big union entering the minds of Government employees. The high cost of living curbing their corn-bred appetites, combined with a sweatshop attitude of some officials in the department, seems to be more effective than a visit from Minerva herself.

The nbove action is followed by a press re port from Great Britain, which says that unless the British Government concedes demands of the postal employees a strike will take place shortly. With the Vatican- Guards defying pontificial power, the postal employees threatening to tie up His Majesty’s service, and the idea of one big union germinating in the minds of Uncle Sam’s servants, no wonder the high priests of finance in Wall Street view with alarm the safety of their pilfered wealth, and beg for regular troops to protect same from possible mob attacks.

Surely tlie Puritanical respect for our sacred institutions is rapidly diminishing. What a power a class conscious organisation of postal, telegraph, and telephone employees would be in assisting the working in their march towards industrial freedom.

Mail addressed to Capitalistic Centres in the United States could without trouble find its way aboard an Asiatic steamer -at ’Frisco.

Telegraph messages accidentally might be missent, while telephone connections would, no doubt, meet with numerable interruptions. Some one says this is Sabotage, and that it is immoral, they also ask us if we believe in it. No! emphatically no; we only practice it. 44 ’Tis the shot heard round the world.” —Mark Crisp, in “ Solidarity.”