The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-08
STRIKES, STRIKINGS N
STRIKERS.

Inc COuntFy Is IulI OF IL. IL is LABOR
agitation, Labor troubles in ominous
black lines as captions for leading jour
nails throughout the metropolitan cen
ters. What does it mean? What does
it pressage? Let US tell you 1t tends
to niden the baeach between the con
structionist and laborer. II forbodes
loss Of time and money to the working
man, a check to commercial and indus
trial progress. 1t inpedes capital, but
does not disorganixe it. while for the
time, acting like a boomerang it injur-
es the men wdo hurl the projectiles of
interference with capital and are hurt
10y the rebound.
Now for u little common sense. You
are Il workingman, and you strike; you
join a procession and march like the
king of France up and down tho hill"
with a show of numbers; you would
brighten the capitalists as we do Chin
csc their enemies with Tom Toms and
much Glamour. Ii you only mean this
your are acting with a degree of folly
objectionable. II your maSsing mean
war, then indeed are you amenable to
all lovers of peace and order, AMI upon
your heads will fall the "anathemas oi
those shO may suffer in person or prop
erty Dy your license or errors. Agai.,
you WITHHOLD your labor from the mill
aud workshop, who is damaged? You,
and the people you assume ~ represent.
You retire from a gluttered market;
soon the demand exceeds the supply,
and the holders have their prices slim
ulated, ~offsetting the loss of your with
drawal, the great MAJ of the people
are compelled to concede the increase
and suffer accordingly. They pay
more for their necessaries and you lose
your time and its consequent compensa
ton. In fact the only sufferers are
yourselves and those whom ysu hope
to serve; the only bcneiciaries are those
you would coercc.
If you apply this rule to Transporta-
tion Companies how does it work =?
Freight gorges at depots, the general
public are impeded. Do the transport
alton companies suffer? Not a bit of
it, only so much as they may be incon-
~yenienced, as losses a be met by All
increased rate upon future carrying.
Let us say one thing TO our laboring
friends who may be in the humor to
aid in the menace for it is nothing
else, against capital, that The capitalist
can do better without you, than you
n without the capitalist.
But finally, let up put the boot upon
the other leg, and as well suggest the
old story of whose OF. is gored, in this
wise: suppose the capitalists of the
country should say 1--WE can't afford
these prices; We won't pay one-half of
the demand much less the whole, and
We'll simply Lock out" what will
you do about itp Morally you can do
nothing. Legally you are disarmed,
aud if you play the game of brnte force,
we all know what the end of that is,
yaur own destruction; hence we argue
the mutual concessions and compton,
ises are evidances of mutual weakness.
Labor should be fairly compensated
fol- his toll, but dictatiOn, through the
imperieus moving Of formidable look
ing bodies of men, whose each move il
but one link in a chain of disasters, is
Of all remedies one OF the weakest; aud
the man or men who attempt to defend
a corner taken or position held 80 I'M
.ena5le, reckon with their host. II
will he wise 10 hold and look before lei
ting go your grip upon the stronghold.
| of peace and law. And remember thai
while nothing is withheld from well di
rected labor. of all things not remunel
alive it is striking, through strikes
and strikers at the object from whicl
you expect to pecure your bread.