The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-07-19
Official Paper Of the City Of Havre
THE STRIKE NUISANCE.

A large number of the newspapers
how the strike nuisance can be best
stopped, and all agree that ~the pub
lie must take hand in the suppress
sion Some advocate compulsory ar
bitration and others think the most
direct route is through appeal to the
courts for the adjustment of all quest
ions arising between capital and labor
That the strike is a nuisance and
that it is detrimental to all the inter-
ests of the community in which it oc
ours, will not be denied That there
shouldabe some way of equitably adj
justing the differences that occur with
out the necessity of a strike is patent;
but how to do so equitably, is the
question. Giving the courts the Set
Element Of these questions vii be
strenuously objected to by the labor
ing men, and for the reasons that
cause this objection, the employing in
terests will be in favor OF the proceed
ure. But in all the discussion that is
going the rounds of the editorial COL
umns, we only see mention Of the
labor strikes-not one word of the
strikes of capital About everything
that is manufactured today, is the pro
duct of a trust When these inst;tu-
cc,tr NV, nrian
of the raw material they purchase,
and strike again by raising the price
to the consumer of the necessity he
must buy, no matter how outrageous
the price, no word of protest is enter
ed by the press. There is not an ed
itorial written demanding that when
these strikes occur the question shall
be taken into court and if the prices
demanded afford more than legiti-
mate profit, they shall by the court be
ordered reduced; or that a board of
compulsory arbitration of prices be es-
tablished and that the trust pro-
Queer of mans necessities be forced
to accept the prices it shall establish.
The poise of the press in this regard
is we'll illustrated by the municipal
muss of San Francisco.
The city government there has been
shockingly rotten. But the head of
the reformers is Rudolph Spreckles
who is at the head of a trust that
has robbed the people Of more dollars
robbed them of mills-and while a
great howl is going up about the
small measure of dishonesty, nothing
is said about the highway robbery of
the sugar trust. The other morning
Mr.. Trust Rudolph solemnly announc-
ed that the committee of seven, ap-
pointed to take charge of the affairs
municipal in San Francisco, was ap-
pointed through corporation influence
and forgetting the position of the
trust king, the people never cracked
a smile.
nuisance to the laborer, to the COM
munity and to every industry But
if the public is going to take a hand
its efforts should seek to control the
strikes of capital as we'll as those OF
labor; to control the strikes of the
trusts and combinations that cost the
people hundreds of millions of dollars
in cold cash every year, as we'll as the
strikes that cost some Inconvenience
and little cash; the public must re-
member, too, that while our statutes
do not recognize human rights and thu
courts are we'll grounded in their faitf
in the inviolable rights of the dollar,
that human rights should be recognize
ed first. as these concern the ninety
nine and the dollar rights concern
but one.