The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-08-04
NO More Strikes.

The day Of Strikes" is past Never
before in the history of the world has
there been such combined effort made
on the part of labor--or more properly
speaking, of the anarchistic and I'M
principled element Of labor-to pull
down, strangle and destroy capital and
dominate over the industrial and com
mercial interests # the land, as has just
been in vogue III this country.
Many men of labor it is true, have
been forced into this unhOly war against
their desires and better judgment by
their labor unions. Their great fault
lies in the fact that they have remained
in or continued to be members of these
unions or organizations after they knew
their real aim and purposes. No hon
est and honorable laboring man in this
land can longer afford to belong to the
labor unions and organizations as they
exist to-day.
Labor may have its unions and kin
dred organizations for mutual instruc-
ton, reimbursement in their respec-
tive calllngs, for the Interchange of ideas
and better methods for performing their
labor, and by thus first making them
telyes more worthy of advancement,
bring about system, and a closer init
macy with the employer, which will re-
ault in good to both.
But the laborer can never get very
close to the employer SO long as he is
\ |
he can injure or destroy the hand that
feeds him, the capital, the brains, the
business capacity which creates work
Tor the laboring man to perform. The
man who employs ten or hundred
men can have no love or sympathy for
those men SO long as the men them
selves compel him to look upon them
az just so many personal enemies who
will Jump at the first opportunity Of
fered to ruin him and his business.
But if those men will take an interest
In their work, do it well and promptly,
take good care of the tools they work
with, the employer will mighty quickly
observe the change and will not be
slow to reward them for it.
But at all events the country has got
tired Of strikes and the striker. The
loss of lie, the destruction of property,
the cessation of business and the loss
es thus entailcd reaching up into the
millions Of dollars during the past few
weeks has aroused both capital and the
nation itself To the point of saving
enough of this" Mr.. Debbs, the
leader Of this strike, a man who hun
dred times more than Prendergast de
serves hanging, for his murders have
been many and the homes he has
made dcsolatc and bare are counted 10y
the thousands, and the walls of starving
children lie has caused cannot bc
reckoncd up unto HIM. This heartless
brute in human form, now safely land
ed in Jail, declares the strike a failure
and that they cannot succeed in their
unholy calling.
Here in Superior we have had strikes
and strikes. 1t is not necessary to re-
count them all. Paobably that of the
printers and the coal handlers have
been the most stubbornly maintained.
But the printers after finding out they
could not ruin the men who had been
feeding them all winter, and forcing
the publishers of the daily papers 10
resort to the tyue-setting machinery,
declared their strike OF, some time ago
while most of them are now tramping
through the country, tired and hungry,
looking for job. Typos who refused
TO work on the ''scab" TINES last April,
and who then tried to do us up" in
various ways, are now asking for work
regardless Of our "scahs," and We fix
the compensation.
\ small army of coal handlers, about
five hundred men, struck on the arrival
of the first corgo of coal. For some two
months they have been living on char
ity largely, while the coal men have
been forced TO import non-union men,
and the city has had to guard and pro-
tect those men while they worked
Business men were forbidden to sell the
wOrkmen or the boat owners who hired
them, any goods, and the weak-kneed,
silly merchant obeyed the order much
To the delight OF the Drawer Duluth
merchant who then stepped forward,
supplied the goods and pocketed the
cash which belonged TO our own peo-
pie. Thus the strikers were not only
robhing themselves but others as well.
These men could have made from
500 TO 500 per day according 10 their
class Of work, but they refused to ac-
cept il, and some Of them, for trying 10
prevent other men from doing the
work, are today in the hands of the
courts while others have been fined or
imprisoned. After all this loss Of time
and wages; after all this violence and
suffering, these men find themselves
vanquished-theirs strike a lamentable
failure, and last Monday their union
declared their strike off
Some Of these men will find work rs
the demand for help increases, hut
no non-uuion man will be discharged
t. make room for striker. That sys-
TEN, a!so. Is forever abolished. No
longer =" lie Unions c.".pe,l 4 a.ar