Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-18

Inc people OF tnat city sym pdthiZe with
the men against the trust. The pro-
ceeding is another instance of the dam
reward or punish communities as they
are obedient or disobedient to the or
dcrs of the industrial kings.-Denver
News.
Without questioning the justice of
the cause for which this steel strike
was ordered, 1t must be maintained
that II the men of any mill have a con-
tract with their employers they are not
justified in breaking It, and should not
be asked to do SO. II employees break
contracts, not because of grievances
of their own, but because of the griev-
ances of others, they can make no COM
plant IL employers break their con-
tracts. There Is too much safety for
the wage-earning class In contracts to
permit OF allowing them to be discred-
ited.-Denver News.
Events Of the week have made it
clear that the steel strike is lost fight.
The uncertain elements are the num-
Der of weeks that will be required to
weary the men Of idleness, and how
much of its organization will remain
to the Amalgamated Association when
the end comes. The failure of the Fed
Grafton of Labor to give more than
sympathy in aid Of the strikers and the
refusal Of the Western members Of the
Amalgamated Association to vitiate
their contracts at the order OF their
President have been serious blows to
the hopes OF the leaders. Gains have
been made by the strikers at Mckees-
port and in the Wheeling district, but
1t is already plain that the strike spirit
has reached high mark, and that the
news from now on will be of gradual
defections.-Iron Trade Review.
A strike should be trial Of endur-
ance and Of economic power; when 1t
degenerates into an assault upon per-
son and property it ceases to be strike
and becomes a riot and war upon or
der and the peace of the community
Chicago Post.
Mr.. Shaffer may think capital beyond
the pale Of moral law, but II he teaches
his followers that they need keep no
faith with capital he may be pretty
sure that capital will soon learn to put
no faith in them, but to treat them as
untrustworthy tools rather than as
honorable men. That is not posltlon
that any patriotic American can WISH
workmen in this country to occupy.
He will rather wish them to be I'M
pregnable in their reputation Tor nom
or and trustworthiness and apie 10
command the most favorable agree
ments based on the certainty that they
will keep their word.-New YORK III
bune.
A Rrooklyn striker. confronted by
the alternatives OF seeing his vile ana
child starve or himself being called a
"scab" for going to Rork, lodged poth
Inv committing suicide. People with no
more grit than this ought to aVold
having wives and children.
Journal.
n is the height of unreason for any
one to maintain in this day OF compila-
ton, cooperation and consoiloaIioh
that labor alone Injuries itself by OF
Eanization. Precisely he same primer.
ples which apply to combinations Oh
capital hold good of labor combinations.
No organization is sound which seeks
advantage in restricted production, ar
bitrarv manipulation of prices or high
handed treatment of outsiders Many
trusts have gone to pieces in conse-
auence of abuse, extortlon ana snort
sighted policies. Labor organlzations
suffer similarly when incompetent lead
ership betrays them into extreme ana
unfair courses or into disregard OF
moral and legal principles.-Chicago
Post.
New Zealand has a strike preventive
in the form Of compulsory arbitration,
administered by a court made up OF
one labor representative, one represent
ative of capital and the presiding judge
of the Supreme Court. There is no ap-
neal from its decisions, and New Zea-
land has not been disturbed by a single
strike since the court was established
some years ago. Allegiance to this
tourt is voluntary on the part OF en-
ployers and employed, but once COM
ipany or union registers under the law
they must abide by its decisions. The
union is out of order II 1t fails ITO obey;
the employer must shut up shop or
abide. the decision. In this way the
great public is protected and the prop
erty OF innocent third parties is not
nuthlessly destroyed, with no legal rem
edy as against the destroyer.
The dismantling of mills, such as is
now going on at McKeesport, presents a
problem which will grow in importance
as time passes. Heretofore not even
governments have assumed to wipe out
a community in reprisal because of diff
ference of opinion. Admitting the prov
ocation in /. is case that the Mayor of
gIcKeesport has refused municipal pro-
lection. officers of county and State re-
mained to whom appeal could have
been made But even in the event of
failure all around. the demonstration
that a corporation can tear up and de-
stroy whole community. notwith-
standing its collateral rights, is sug-
gestive. WHAT has been done to Nc
Keesport to-day may be done to Chi
cago tomorrow, or to New Orleans
next day. The Cincinnati Post sounds
this note of alarm. which will linger
long after the strike itself shall have
ended.-Atlanta Constitution.