There will be strikes, unrest, and disturbances just as long as men are unable to make a living. This is true when wages are low or when they are high. If wages and salaries advance to undreamed of heights and the price of living advances just a little more, the wage earner and salary slave are no better off than if wages and salaries were lower.
Wages are too high, it is admitted, yet the wage earner has difficulty in making his daily, weekly, or monthly wage check meet his living expenses. That there is profiteering cannot be denied. The tendency has been to "boost" prices of everything. It was expected to stop when the war ended but it did not. Prices are raised constantly and without excuse. There must be an end to this practice of boosting prices to meet increasing expenses. Railroad employees wages have been increased by 48 percent yet they threaten to strike for higher wages and some of them are now on strike, because the increased wages will not meet the increased cost of living.
Railroad freight and passenger rates have been increased to meet the increased cost of transportation due to increased wages. These increases in transportation charges are added to the cost of living and we are now asked to raise railroad rates again to give the railroad employees $800,000,000 more in wages.
It begins to look like the government will have to commandeer the food supply of the United States and sell it to the consumers as it is going to sell its surplus war supplies and surplus cut out speculation and profiteering. Then wages, rents, and transportation costs can be lowered. 