The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-03


TINES is not in sympathy with any
organized strike, no matter what the
excuse for it may be, for the reason
that strikes derange the business of
the country and never have in any
case which we can remember, been
Of benefit to the strikers; and it is
self-evident that even if the strikers
should temporarily win in this con.
test with the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, in the end they
would be the losers. The history of
strikes shows it to be a fact that,
though compromise is made some
times with strikers, the men who
were engaged in the strike, were all
weeded out by the employer at just
as early day as their place could be
filled by passibly competent help and
that this will be the result on the
lines which have now compromised
with the strikers, at the earliest pos
sible moment, we have doubt.
THE TIMES has no sympathy with
any man or set of men who fail to
pay a reasonable compensation for
services of any kind faithfully rem
dered. This consideration should
always be matter of contract, and
all such contracts should be fairly
and promptly carried out. THE
TINES presumes that these strikers
were engaged at the salaries paid,
and that the salaries have been
promptly paid. They may not have
been as much as ought to be paid for
the services rendered, the Company
may have required too many hours
labor, though we think ten hours is
not unreasonable days work in any
business. But if these things were
true, and that is what no fellow can
find out, as the strikers tell one story
and the Company another, and they
differ very widelyin their statements,
the Company ought to right the
wrong, but to insure its being righted
the business of nation ought not to
bejeopardized by norganized strike,
against the, it may be, unjust action
of a corporation. We think If these
operators were dissatisfied with their
positions they ought to have quietly
as individuals, not as Brotherhood,
resigned their positions, and after a
reasonable notice gone to pastures
greener," leaving the immense
business of the country in its normal
condition. That would have been
just to themselves, the Company and
the public, and no one would have
had any right to complain.
THE TINES has no sympathy with
any monopoly. We believe in the
largest personal liberty consistent
with the safety of society, and wish
every laboring man the most un-
bounded prosperity. We believe in
protecting them in their rights by the
strong arm of direct and positive
law, and the rigid enforcement of the
provisions of the law, to the end that
the Nations prosperity may be Sc
cured, for no nation is prosperous
where labor is not well paid, and
abundant 10 meet the business re-
quirements. We believe in educated
labor, and that educated labor is bet
tex and should be better paid,
than that of uucducated or unskilled
men, and that the lawmakers
should so legislate that this result
must of necessity be the condition of
things. But we do not believe
strikes tend to bring this state of af-
fairs into existence, but that, on the
contrary, they tend to destroy the
best interests of. the strikers and at
the same time destroy business in
terests of great magnitude and i'm
portance, which it is for the good o!
all classes to protect and promote.
Entertaining these views we have
ever sought to build up the interests
of the laboring classes by making
their services at fair remunerative
rates, stern necessity alike to in
dividuals and corporations, so that