The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-06-16
\ BILL TO ARBlTRATE STRIKES.

Minnesota, to create a national board
TO arbitrate strikes is a step in the
right direction. Scarcely an instance
has yet occurred regarding the settle
ment of differences between the en-
ployer and employed, but that the
representatives of both sides have
proven themselves wholly incompet-
ent to bring about settlement without
the loss of human life, and the destruc-
ton of property. Each side is jealous
of it's rights and privileges and un-
willing to recede from the stand it has
taken lest the concession made be used
as a precedent to work a further in
jury to its cause in the settlement of
similar difficulties that are certain to
arise in the future. Capital and labor
are both essential factors in all COM
mercial and business relations. The
one is the concomitant of the other.
They are partners in business. They
are the means of all improvement, all
unemployment and all progress. But
not withstanding the fact that they al
ways have and always must labor to-
gether and that the life of one is ne
cessary to the existance of the other,
they are to-day arrayed against each
other in a deadly combat. Labor
struggling to wiring from greedy and
jealous capital its share of the wealth
which it, (labor) has produced, striving
to maintain its rightful position and
endeavoring to stay the inhuman and
barbarous encroachments of capital.
While capital'is constantly seeking to
strip labor of all its privileges, and
bent on reducing labor to complete
subordination and absolute slavery.
Labor throughout the United States is
protesting against the tyranous attempt
on the part of capital to enslave and
degrade the masses; it is protesting
against the unlawful means by which
the few are surreptitiously depriving
the many of their substance, their
liberty, their all. It is protesting
against the perpetuation of the condi-
ton which enable the rich to demand
tribute on everything that is produced
and on all that the poor possess. It
is protesting against the existence of
which enable one-two-
hundred-fortiet of the population to
gain control of and compel the rest to
pay interest on eighty per cent of the
wealth. It is protesting
against the injustice, fraud and de-
ception which capital employees to at
tain certain end, and through the
practice of which the rich are growing
richer and the poor are growing
poorer.
Throughout the United States lock-
outs and strikes and labor difficulties
ire prevalent. In the coke and coal
districts of the East, in the mining re-
yions of the West and North these two
forces are at war, capital threatening
10 pauperize entire communities un-
ess labor submits to and acknowledges
;he supremacy Of the money power,
while labor threatens to annihilate
prosperity and compel the suspension
# business unless capital agrees to
ettlement on basis of equality and
rom standpoint of justice, and un-
ess labor submits the trouble gener-
lily ends in blood shed. There is no
eason why the trouble arising from
hese strikes and lockouts could not
70 arbitrated; and the plan proposed
y the Minnesota Congressman Gre
ting a board of arbitration would
obviate much If not all