, 1900-05-29
THE DEMOCRACY AND LABOR.

The Springfield Republican believes
that enforced arbitration between labor
employers and employees when there is
a difficulty is needed as much in this
country as it is in New Zealand, and
gives as a reason that when the strike
began in Chicago four months ago
the strike of the building trades. this
labor unions had a membership of &C.
900: that now 5000 have left the city
1000 Of whom nave taken their fami-
lies with them and others are leaving
daily. Last Saturday three t]rainload,
of them went away. To this number
are t. be added 5000 men engaged in
manufacturing building material who
We're thrown out of work by the strike
and have moved away. Finally, 49,
600 union men have been and are being
supported from the treasury of the IN
ion. The trade Of the city in all lines
has been seriously affected by the trou-
bic. The original strike was not near.
ly so much on account of wages as tn.
eXactions demanded by the unions, and
which have been general all over the
country this spring and which men of
property annot accept. The Courier
journal, speaking of the 81. Louis
strike, says it was because the unions
demanded to practically take charge Of
the business of the men they worked
tor. The governor Of Missouri express.
ed the belief that the strike there wa,
due altogether to the maninu,ations ~
some designing and dishonest demo-
cratic politicians. and that is the gen
eraI belief throughout the Mississinpi
valley; that the purpose is TO simnlv
!"ase 'aih until election, in order Ia
ihhNlence the vote for president As
Iohg g as last March a gentleman
no" in this city who was in tho eos.
was talking with a prominent politt-
r'ah as to the result of the election
ms year. His answer was. "It is q,
uncertain quantity. We have informo-
ton that the purpose of the damooro,i,
party leaders is to precipitate strikes
in all he large cities and to keep them
up in order to be able to say as the
election draws near that all the tror.
Dies are due TO the republican admin
istration. If they carry their point, it
may elect Mr.. Bryan
We are bound to say that the one
of very many democratic journals con-
hrms that statement. The local demo-
cratic organ has a ring of that kind
every day and throws its daily son to
workingmen to impress upon them thai
they are badly used. Tom Patterson's
paper, the Rocky Mountain News, has
been at that kind of work for a year
past. Patterson was in Montana two
months last year when the troubles
were on in northern Idaho; he knew
all the facts thoroughly; he knew that
Tor seven years there had been a state
of anarchy in north Idaho and that
the lives and property of decent men
were in jeopardy all the time. Yet he
presided over the Sioux Falls conven
ton n very possibly wrote the plank
"ondemning the government for estab.
fishing order there after seven years
OF chaos. In the same line we find his
paper praising Ed Boyce, who, there
Is no doubt, was one of the chief fac
tors of the Idaho labor troubles; who
wants every laDoring man to obtain
a gun: who has for five years given
unmistakable evidences Of a desire t.
array labor against capital that he may
retain a soft place, and yet Tom Pat
terson in his business, would not &C.
cept Ed Boyce's dictation for a holy
minute. We shall see how the expert
ment will terminate.-Salt Lake Tri-
bune.