Iron County register., 1886-04-08

lie pfOpoIAiOu ~ the lax " SGppOtS tH0
government, I don't care what you
say to the contrary. NESToR.
Money and Labor on q Strike.
1t seems as if the universal tendency
OF all things at present is to get into
snarls. Money and Labor, which ought
to be harmonious, are arrayed as an
tagonists apparently bent on each 9TH
er's ruin. An effort Will be made to
lift the problem of Money and Labor
from under the feet of angry and un.
principled demagogues. and discuss
it in the dry light of Right and Public
Welfare. The tendency OF all things
is to combine and organize, either for
good or evil. Money combined and or
ganized is Banking. Labor combines
and organizes in Trades Unions with
| view to strikes.
Originally strike was an uprising
against grinding oppression by em-
ployes. But that is all changed now.
At present strikes are included in three
classes. Men who never do days
|
can not wiring out of their employers
money enough to support vices and
Goddess, soulless, shameless, rafting
demagogues who hope out OF the gem
eral disorder to bring some grist to
their mill. Scattered indiscriminately
among all these, and ready to act as
occasion may demand, 10 large class
ready to aid in anything and any way
that will paralyze industry and pro-
| mote disorder. Out of such a Nax-
areth what good can come?
But let us keep in the light. It is
alleged that employers dole out starva-
ton wages. To this it is sufficient
answer that on the first of January.
1856, part of the wage-workers of the
United States had on deposit in the
Savings Banks of the country 81 ,O5O.-
100000. 1t does not appear that the
parties to whose credit this immense
bank account stands received any
higher wages than others in the same
work, so that if any wage-worker ia
Strengthened it is by the niggardliness
OF the employer, but not from his want
of economy.
1t is cheerfully conceded that if wag-
IS are not satisfactory to the employe
he can give up his job, and that he
cannot be compelled to follow one
kind of work if he can make more at
something else. But the striker does
not stop here. He usurps the right to
say that party whose wages are SAT.
isfactory to the worker shall not labor.
And he also usurps the right TO take
control of the property of corporations
and resist by force the authority Of tho
rightfui owners to use it for legitimate
purposes.
Arithmetic can scarcely compute tho
amount of damage arising from the
!. present strike continuing two weeks.
But the question arises. what are you
going to do about ii? The answer il
that we will investigate farther, and
this develops that q strike is legitf-
mate outgrowth of our barbarism, and
the development of strike or its con-
tinuaDce for an hour is evidence that
our civilization is going to the wall.
But there are rights somewhere I'm
the case. Let US try and find them.
Pending the strike the U. S. mails are
run. This, presumably, does not arise
| from the fact that a mans property
| right in his letters and newspapers is
in any wise different from that In mer-
chandise, but because the transmission
of mail matter is the work of the Fed
eral Government which recognizes its
obligations to fulfill it's undertakings,
but is not bound to carry out the uD-
dertakings of corporations organized
under State, and so Is not bound to
guarantee the transmission of freight.
Has a railroad company no protec-
ton? 10 there no power to aid it in car
rying on its work? A raiload company
is chartered by the State to which it
pays taxes, and by which 1t is regu-
lated In regard to its tariffs. These
facts give it clear right to protection
by the State whilst carrying on it's
legitimate business. A collection Of
strikers is a mob-an assembly which
the State is bound to suppress, aud
failure to suppress which makes the
State liable for Its action. The City OF
London to-day finds mob an expen-
sivs luxury. In respect to railroads
the way TO a remedy Is clear in regarsi
to strikes. The loss in such cases falls
Eventually not 30 much on the Com
| pany as OH the business men of the
country. Let one of them sue q rail-
road company for damages arising
from strike. The company could
not plead the strike i'm bar Of an asi-
verse judgment because the law against
contributory negligence would bar the
plea. IT 10 well settled that Trades
Unions are organized and administered
with strikes as their objective point.
Then when railroad company hires
those who are members of Trades Un-
ions it becomes accessory to strikes be-
| fore the fact. The same consideration
| will bar an appeal of railroad conn
pany to the State for aid against
strikers. If the State touches the case
1t must put the company and the;
/ strikes in the same boat. Let every
railroad company utterly refuse en1-s
ploynent to any member Of any Trades
Union, and then IL they strike they
will strike out of doors 10 far ~ the
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