Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-08
The strike a Failure.

rfoh the niiadellinla fress.
The striking telegraphers have played their
best card and lost This is not yet ab olutely de-
ci led, first because or the general dI,i .ulty OF
communication eau led by the strike and, second.
because where the strike is most complete on a
railroad least Is known as To its success. but the
strong probability, amounting to a certainty, f.
that the railroad operators have not gone out IN
sufncent numbers to peril the roads In and
about the centers or population, at Blfralo, Chi
cago. ST Louis and. perhaps, at Baltimore, II is
very probable that the roads II be- nut To serious
Inconvenience. but along the line OF the western
roads, where tn deparI ure OF the operators would
have more irrrplrable eject, IL does not appear
likely that the solitary operator. who along these
lines lives 10 the depot and acts as station master,
VIII Risk his place AMI all his earnings Over a
trade OF secondary interest 10 him and In a strike
which is of no concern TO him whatever.
This means failure for the strike. The last step
taken by the strikers will add enormou >ly 10 the
Inconvenience or the public and seriously Increase
ras loss innct-d on the group Of capitalists who
but unless travel can be brought 70 dead stop on
the roads attacked their managers can stagger on,
as the western Union has done, dividing the loss
with the public and securing the pronIs OF ult-
mate victory. There is not to-day a single great
teiegraphlc circuit on which press matter or Pr-
Vate dispatches are being sent with ..certainty
CELEBRITY and security" but long as the Western
Union keeps its Offices open the strikers fsi and
the few rich men who are fighting the brother
hood have scores OF ways In which 20 make good
their losses where the unfortunate op,r itors have
none Tor retrieving Tn" loss OF place and lvei hood
Ill
sell, as deSpairlng strikes always do, IN violence
and the destruction property. Every good citl-
zen VIII condemn this, none than the bette
class or strikers, whose orderly demeanor has de-
served and won the praise OF the community: but
IL Is one OF the misortunes OF corporate abus or
power that public Condemnation is neither as Wig
orOus nor as outspoken as IL would be let US say
II the Western Union were paying fair interest
on lis actual value, when its service would cost
The pubic TWO thirds as much as now, and vet a
Ialr return on Its actual inveStmenI Is all that the
western Union has law ul right 10 charge as a
common Carrier. None the ie~ s, puuishm nj must
De inncted on every man guilty or this disorierly
police should BE- employed, necessary, TO protect
the conpany's property.
III would be short-s GIFTED conclusion TO assume
That the failure OF this strike Is the failure OF the
methods OF the Knights or Labor. The present
strike has been out OF all proportion greater, more
Wiley extended, ami more Ell Give than the tei.
egraph strike Of 1870, AMI next Will be bigger
executive committee have been carried out over
halt continent, the order and patience OF the
strikers, and the readiness, misguid d IL may be.
OF INDIVIDUALS TO sacrifice personal advantage 10
The cause OF the orJer VIII all unite strengthen
| the Impression upon the labor or the La I'D that
Their methods point the way TO success IL may
easily happen that the present defeat Will dimin-
| 1st the membership and reduce the Influence OF
the order, perhaps disband IL: but familiar
with the steady advance In the org tnization OF
labor can be In doubt that the united action OF
many trades striking together over enormous
areas by tens and hundreds OF thousands is tho
balance the power OF capital 1t is to avoid the
runou5 shock OF such conflicts that The Press
steadily urges arbitration the solution OF this
CON royersy.-AdH.