The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-19
THE STRIKING SWiTCHMEN.

TIE Buffalo strikers are busily. engaged
In knocking out organized labor.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
THE law knows no discrimination be-
tween union men. non-union men and en-
ployers. 1t must protect ell alike.-New
York Recorder.
THERE is but one way to deal with these
striking switohmen at Buffalo. Their
places ehould be filled without delay, and
not one who can be proved to have taken
part in the lswlessness should be re-em-
ploy ed.-New York Times.
No strike has ever been won by resort
to violence. More than this, every strike
which has led to violence has been . sig
nal failure. and always must be so. Law.
lessness can never be tolerated in this Re-
public.-New York Advertiser.
THE moment that the str ikers began to
set fire to property and to attack the sher-
IFS officers they cut themselves adrift from
popular sympathy. 1t became necessary TO
call out the regiments and to restore with
q strong arm the authority Of law.-New
York Tribune.
The strike of railway switchmen at Buff
falO aud other points Is because of Q de-
mand, made some time ago, for increased
wages and shorter hours. The men COM
planned that they were doubled 3D." and
had twelve hours continuous work every
day.-Toledo Blade.
PERHAPS If the strikers showed decent
regard for law and order some of their de-
mands might be granted ultimately. At
all events they would have retained the
sympathy of the public. and this would be
powerful agency in their favor.-St
Louis GIobe-Demoerat.
IT il because We believe in the mantle
of ina nd ha
equal enforcement of the laws that We urge
of crushing with all the lawful means at
their command the anarchy that has arisen
in Buffalo.-New York Press.
THE conduct of the Lehigh Valley strik-
ers in their reckless, almost fiendish, de-
struction of property, is in marked con-
trast for the worse with the behavior of the
l0cked-Out wOrkmen at Homestead. There
was honest difference of opinion about the
Homestead troubles.-Boston Advertiser.
In the strikesof the switchmen in this
city there is an absolutely unanimous pub
lilo opinion set hard against q movement
that employs murder and arson to intimi-
date employees of labor and that takes no
steps to expose and punish the law break
ers in it's own camp.-Buffalo Commercial.
THE suppression of the strikers who are
labor as 1T is to capital The fact that all
strikers do not submit to rational control
but 60 III for the destruction of life and
property, Is the only excuse for the exist
ence of the Observation-Disclosures Senti-
mel.
If the strikers had failed to obey the laws
of the union they would have been cast out
of the organization in short order and treat
ed as '.scabs" When they violate the laws
of the State and strike at the very fOupda-
tions of civilized society, the union leaders
have only mild words of reproval for them.
New York Sun.
If tbore be justice in the demand of the
strikers it 10 time that they made il known.
But whether their demand be just or I'M
Just they must cease from riot. they must re-
spect the rights of property and of persona.
and they must conform to the laws of the
United States and of the States in which
they reside.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
LAw-ABIDING citizens. as they view with
growing apprehension this last outbreak
of anarchlstio violence. should reflect on
the moving causes of it. While the ruff an
ism Of the strikers and their sympathizcrs
professional agitators and political schem-
ers who encourage their mlsdeeda-brook-
lvn Eagle.
The country has had o great deal of very
unpleasant experience with railroad
strikes. There 70 every reason to believe,
however, that the strikers themselves are
directly responsible for nearly all the mis-
chief that has been done. What good will
come of it, In the interest of honest labor
organized or other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tele-
graph.
II 10 a jugglery of words to discuss the
lswlessness at buffalo a. q labor outbreak.
Never has there been q more unprovoksd.
a more inexcusable, Q more wanton resort
to violence than that displayed there.
For most of the lawlessness the public su-
thorities are to be held responsible. A riot
must be dealt with q fire is. 1t must be
quelled at the start-New York Herald.
THE ultimate triumph of the companies,
which seems inevitable, should teach the
hot-headed switchmen of Buffalo the lesson
which all thoughtful men. whether en-
ployers or employees, have already learned
viz, that only legal methods In the set-
Element of any difficulty will be counte-
nanced by the American people, and that
consequently by no other methods can sue
cess be attained.-New York World.