Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.
MANIPULATED so AS TO eENE-
FIT DEMOCRACY.
All Branches of Labor We're Expcri-
encing Good Times Until Democratic
Schcmcrs Began to Fomcnt Trouble
for Political Effect.
Chicago correspondence:

Chicago correspondence:
The prosperous, steadily employed
w%orkingmen of this country express
themselves as we'll satisfied with the
changed conditions of the past few
years. 1t requires no campaign oratory
to convince them and their well-fed and
well-clothed families of the advantages
that haveaccrued to them in the change
from Democratic to Republican control
of the affairs of the nation. The better
ed conditions are SO evident, and the
c%ontentneit OF IaboriIg people SO uni
versal, that no one is able to deny the
great and rapid increase i'll the pros
perity of the worliingmen generally.
Labor organizations of all kinds have
1ourlshed and crown as never before,
and when wisely and c~onservatively
managed have added to their strength
and good influence. The machinists,
bricklayers. carpenters, railroad men,
hod carriers. plastercrs. ironworkers,
and in fact all trades, have rcaped the
benefit of the good times. AS might be
expected. this condition of things has
Clstllltu liiC lJNIIlDtIillC CtlllllJuIx XII IlIll-
ayers.
The ofT-ycar elections in the different
States Indicated that workmen of all
classes were supporting the lsepubli-
can tickets. lit became necessary i'll the
mind of Chairman Jones and others of
the National Democratic Committee,
and local party bosses in Chicago, thar
to ecure the labor vote in the coming
Presidential contest something must be
done to stem the wonderful industrial
tide, as otherwise the vail of the Ca
lamity howlcr' would surely fall on
deaf ears and Democracy's appeals go
unheedcd. They saw an opportunity in
Chicago to bring about Il conflict be-
tween laboring men and their employ
ers, and how we'll they have succeeded
can best be told by the thousands of un-
%suspecting workingmen and their FAM
lilies who have been made to suffer.
Strikes were inaugurnted in the build
Ing trades wherever possible. Leaders
III the building trades have been placed
on the City Hall %payroils. Men acting
as officers of unions connected with the
Building Trades Council, as business
agents of the union, We're given posi-
tions paying from 500 to $3.50 per
month. BY means of ''siNty-day' APP
pointments, and by the connivance of
Commissioner Edward Carroll and his
Democratic colleague, the civil service
law has been tlampled under foot.
Is it strange that efforts TO bring
about Il settlement of the labor troubles
in Chicago have been fruitless?
What matters it to such men, calr:ed
on two paErolls. that the laborers of
Chicago are without work? What care
Chairman Jones, Willis j. Abbot and
Edward Carroll? The Presidential elrc-
ton is almost at hand. and they must
not permit this warfare to cease until
after the ballots are cast. If they can
working people. they hope thus to gain
q few votes, and the welfare of the peo-
pie must not stand in the way.
The public's first Introduction to the
methods of the City Hall 'hold-up' Ia
Dor gang was during the Fall Festival
last year.
This experience and others of like
character was the direct cause of the
lockout of last winter. Chairman Jones
and Willis j. Abbot, Secretary of the
Democratic Press Bureau, then had
reason to feel that a calamity of great
proportions was settling over Chicago.
and they We're accordingly cheerful, for
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Every department of business and in
dustry of Il great city has been made to
feel the direful effects of this shame
full scheme on the part of the Demo-
cratic campaign managers to obtain
votes.