The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-08-22
WIPE STRIKERS
NEED S2,009,00O.
PRECTDE-T SMALL SAYS UNION
VIZ HAVE THIS SUN IL
TWO MONTHS.
HINTSAT LONG STRUGGLE.
Operators Chief Does Not Say Where
Money Is Coming from in Al
dress at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 1.-Two mil
lion dollars for strike fund President
Sylvester j. Small Of the international
Photographers union declares that the
telegrapers will have that sum III their
war chest within the next two months.
1t was the first time an officer of the
union had expressed an opinion that the
struggle would be a protractcd one. 1t
indicated that the national leaders APP
precate the gravity Of the situation, if
the rank and file do not, and are max
ing prcpations for it,
Mr.. Small! furthermore observed that
talking would not win the strike: that
plenty Of hard work would be demanded
Of the officers and members.
When Strikes Are Justified.
In an extended statement issued later
Mr.. Small enumerated his doctrine of the
right to strike, as follows:
II do not believe in strikes any more
than | do in murder, but | do believe III
justice and in the first great law Of ma
turc, which is selt-prr> cryatIOn, and when
justice cannot be had nor sch-prcScrva-
ton maintained without, resort to
either or both OF these harsh remedies,
then harsh measures Will be justified.
Il have a right to kill you, when, and
only when, you are about to Kill me. IN
order that i may preserve my own life.
This Is the law, the external law, the
first great principle Of human existence.
So. too, in times Of great commercial or
industrial strife when you have com
bincd your power and your wealth to en-
slave and to destroy me wholly, | nave
the right to combine my power ana my
wealth (Which is my labor TO destroy
you.
Source of Fund Not Told.
The energies Of the union from now
on will be directed toward gathering in
the strike fund. 1t was not stated 10y
Mr.. Small. where the S200O,OOO would
come from, or whether it would be from
voluntary subscriptions or strike assess
mcuts.
There are 100000 members Of the
federation Of labor, but under their con
stituton the order cannot be aS. esScd
more than 10 cents a year for each mem
Der. Other labor organizations have SIM
liar provisions in their charters. Tins
matter viii be taken up by Samuel Gom-
pcrs, president of the National Fedora
ton Of Labor. at the meeting Of the eN-
ccutiye board in Washington next week.
Companies Make Boast.
The strike today had all the appear
auceS of a waiting game on bOth sldeS.
The companies claim 20 be in better
shape than on any preceding day, and
they certainly were handling more busl-
ness at their main Offices here. The Of
fcials of the union asserted, as they nave
since the commencement OF the strike,
that the telegraph companies are hope
lessly crippled. The peacemakcrs were
making no progress in any direction.
The general strike order issued yes
tcrday by the union had apparently no
effect in this city either yesterday or to-
DAY. The Western Union today claimed
that the only effect it had eXerted on the
strike was to call out seven men in
twenty different states from which they
had complete returns The number may
be slightly increased when every office in
the United States is heard from but both
the Postal and Western Union declare
that the order has not had the slightest
effect in interfering with their work.