Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-08-10
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THE STRIKE ENDING.

mo strike in the United States has threat
ened more serious consequences, both in pro
perty and in lives than the strike in the Min
nesota Range. That strike is fortunately rerg
ing itself into past history, and the danger is
practically at an end" says the St. Paul Dis
patch "Yet the danger was evident there was
as much fire as smoke upon the Range.
"There were set againt each other the Uni
ted States Steel corporation of the East, and
Miners federation of the West. These two
stood ready to ccnch in death battle in this
far inland state, which has always been an ag
ric;.1tural state, known as agricultural state
in spite of it's manufacturing prominence, in
spite of it's fabulous mineral wealth. The state
built itself on agricultural peace, that is, the
state considered to belong to the peSple
not to the Steel trust, does Pennsylvania
not to the Miners Federation, does Idaho.
And Minnesota shaped her laws for the benefit
the protection of the people, And she so
spaped those laws, and so backed them with
the integrity and fearlessness of her people,
with prejudice toward none, with protection
to all, that when it to a crisis, such as
that of the Range strike, the people, their laws
and the habit of enforcing such laws fearlessly
against any contemplated offense, stood her in
excellent stead
at has been the wonder of the East and
West that Minnesota, an untried state, untried
by trust federation, should have stood UP SO
stalwartly and refused to be cowed by either
party to the offense. The federation is warned
off the Range. The trust is given to under
stand that it can operate only by commanding
the fullest sympathy of the people, of whom
the miners-not the federation-are a part
The New York Post few evenings ago, seeing
the fearlessness of Minnesota in the face of her
danger, INDUCED in some facetious wonder,
asking What was the matter with Minnesota
that it did not tremble before the trust or feder-
alton, that it insisted on work.
"'These revolutionary Mnnesotans are
upsettng some of our firmly established social
and political principles. They positively be-
lieve in work! And with effrontery which
we had fondly hoped no good American would
ever again display, they arraign the miners
union for breaking it's contract. These author
tiles in Minnesota-nayors and sher1ffs and the
governor-rnust be an ignorant set, In some
way or Ottler IlHeSOld ought 70 DC gwen u
understand that she is on the wrong track
For Americans to declare that their souls are
their own; they will not allow great industry
to he ruined by agitators; that the laws must
be obeyed even by the union organizers that
any man who desires to work will be protected
by the whole power of the state-this will
never do! Minnesota must somehow be led to
see the error of her wavs'
"And the miners have gone back, 60
ing back, to work, fifteen thousand of them
The federation able to secure but thous-
and Or two supporters, and the trust has not
cared to venture a contest with Minnesota
laws, backed by Minnesota troops and gov
ernor who held the balances between two fac
tons with answering hand. Work is again
resumed at the mines, and Minnesota vindi-
Gates the right of every man to work, the right
| of work to be DONE 1t is true that Minnesota
has had more open, less obstructive course
| in this matter than would Pennsylvania or Ida
i no. But her success in coping with the trou ole
demonstrates that the great unshackled unioI
of the states still holds the American rights as
they have been maintained in the beginning
the right to work Minnesota has fought more
than it's own battle