Such groups do not intend to compromise with our government, their supreme desire being to destroy the capitalistic system by force and force alone, even to the extent of gnawing at the vitals of the American Federation of Labor on the one hand and capitalism on the other. One of the greatest American institutions in the United States today is the American Federation of Labor with its thousands of unions and its millions of members throughout the country, standing first and always in defense of our government and its institutions, fighting for all the best standards of living. Without organized labor, nothing can prevent an onslaught on our institutions, with the probable destruction of our government by extremists, working determinedly and definitely towards one end. The Musicians' Union, Local Six, is proud to have taken its place in the great sympathetic strike and demonstration in San Francisco and the Bay Cities, in a successful endeavor to bring order out of chaos, and lend its support to the constructive solution of these controversies. To these ends we are proud of the results accomplished.
History repeats itself.
Arbitration has always been and always will be the final factor in all controversies. Troops, disorder, contempt for law and order, and violence, always has and always will tend to destroy equilibrium and delay solution of any controversial dispute. With approximately ten thousand troops in San Francisco, six thousand of which were of the State Militia stationed on the waterfront, and the remainder government troops within the Presidio, ready for call, it is a great credit to the city that the only persons killed in the whole strike were two innocent men belonging to labor organizations. It is generally understood by labor that these men were unarmed and were shot in cold blood. These martyred men were escorted to the grave by the greatest demonstration in the history of San Francisco.