about standing � maybe there isn t in mechanical the s they got seven out of eleven in the new to chapter the strike turned into two and red began late in with a walk out of girls and in protest against a of wages the newly formed union of workers went out partly in s and partly in demand for a f ji ty four hour week they were followed by the union industry was tied up and the whole city was nervous with talk of a strike a strike a general strike furious citizens trying to get calls through strike breaking girls danced helplessly every that made its way from the to the freight stations was guarded by a policeman tr to look beside the driver a line of fifty from the z steel and machinery company was attacked by � crushing out from the pulling drivers from the seats and while girls cheered from the walk and small boys heaved bricks the national guard was ordered out colonel who in private life was mr secretary of the company put on a long coat and stalked crowds a in hand even s friend drum the shoe merchant � a round and merry man who told stories at the club and who strangely resembled a dog � was to be seen as a but ferocious captain with his belt tight about his comfortable little belly and his round little mouth as he to chattering groups on corners move on there i can t have any of this every new per in the city save one was against the when the news stands at each was stationed a a young embarrassed citizen soldier with eye glasses or clerk in private life trying to look dangerous while small boys get de tin soldier i and striking drivers inquired tenderly say joe when i was fighting in france was you in camp in the states or was you doing exercises in the y m c a be careful of that now or you ll cut yourself there was no one in who talked of anything but the strike and no one who did not take sides you were either a courageous friend of labor or you were a fearless of the rights of property and in either case you were and ready to any friend who did not hate the enemy a milk plant was set � each side charged it to the other � and the city was hysterical and chose this time to be publicly liberal he belonged to the sound sane right thinking wing and at first he agreed that the crooked ought to be shot he was sorry when his friend defended arrested and he thought of going to and explaining about these but when he read a that even on their former wages the girls had been hungry he was troubled all lies and figures he said but in a doubtful for the sunday after the road church announced a sermon by dr john drew on how the would end strikes had been about church going lately but he went to the service hopeful that dr drew really did have the information as to what the divine powers thought about strikes beside in the large glossy was whispered hope the gives the hell i ordinarily i don t believe in a preacher into political matters � let him stick to straight religion and save souls and not sur a lot of discussion � but at a time like this i do think he ought to stand right up and out those to a fare you said the rev dr drew his rustic bang with the intensity of his poetic and during the series of which have � let us be courageous and admit it boldly � the business life of our fair city these past days there has been a great deal of loose talk about scientific of scientific � scientific f now let me tell you that the most thing in the world is science take the attacks on the established of the christian creed which were so popular with the a generation ago oh yes they were mighty fellows and great of criticism i they were going to destroy the church they were going to prove the world was created and has been brought to its extraordinary level of morality and civilization by blind chance yet the church stands just as firmly to day as ever and the only answer a christian needs make to the of his simple faith is just a pitying and now these same want to replace the natural condition of free competition by crazy systems which no matter by what high names they are called are nothing but a naturally i m not labor courts against men to be striking or those excellent in which the men and the get together but i certainly am the s in which the free and of independent labor is to be replaced by cooked iq scales and and government and labor and all that what is not generally understood is tbat this ii trial matter isn t a question of it s essential and a matter of love and of the practical application of the christian imagine a factory � instead of of workmen the the goes among them smiling and they smile back the elder brother and the younger brothers that s what they must be loving brothers and then strikes would be as inconceivable as hatred in the it was at this point that muttered oh said c he doesn t know what he s talking about it s just as dear as mud it doesn t mean a dam thing maybe looked at him doubtfully through all the service kept at him till was nervous the had announced a parade for tuesday morning but colonel had forbidden it the newspapers said when drove west from his at ten that morning 