Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-13
STRIKES AND STRIKES.
(Arizona Republican,

A Globe reader of the Republican in a communication which appears this morning in a kindly manner crit icises a statement by a Republican reporter with reference t Mother Jones presence in Phoenix just be- fore she went to Clifton to take part in the strike there. As to the objec- tionable language of the statement that Mother" Jones was going to Clifton ''to make trouble" that was the language used by Mother" Jones herself In a joking manner and tho reporter intended so to convey ii
 The observations of the correspond ent proceed to a general discussion of strikes which he says are not with the intention of the unions, disorderly battles but dignifed human strug- gles, He mentions varions strikes which have occurred in this terri tory, among them the Bisbee strike There need be no discussion as to the righteousness of strikes. Like all human movements,' some of them have been right and some of them have been wrong, but the reference to the Bisbee strike is interesting, in- asmuch as it illustrates and marks a point where unionists and those who are not members of the union but fairly disposed toward them must diff fer.
 The only avowed purpose, as We un derstand it, of the Bisbee strike was to add to the dignity of labor. There was no grievance on the part of any of the unions and, as the strike turned out, no sympathy on the part of the majority of the miners with the strike movement. The wages paid at Bisbee were better than the aver age wages paid to miners. The hours were satisfactory and to the outsider entirely free from sympathy or pre- judice, there was no cause for indus trial uprising. Not only did a major ity of the miners not take part in the strike, but so contented were they with the conditions prevailing at Bis bee that they, many of them union miners, had twice overwhelmingly de- feated propositions to unionize the camp. That was the very thing the strike was afterwards intended to ac- complish.
 The correspondent truthfully ob- serves that there can be no hope of the success of a strike unless it can enlist the good wishes of the public, who have no relation with either par ty. It was certain that the Bisbee strike, however peaceably t might have been conducted since it could not command the sympathy of all union men, could not bid for the sympathy of the public.
 The correspondent, like so many others. errs in believing that the dig nity of labor depends upon the en forcement of principle upon which employers and employees are not agreed. They seek to cure the ills of the present system. assuming. that it's ills are essential and general, rath- CT than to wait until the ills are de veIoped or even to wait for specific causes for them to appear
 This is a mistake which aggressive unionists as we'll as most other re formers make There cah be no ready made reforms, or as we may say par adoxically, preventive reforms. Nor can reforms be made generaF and rig id They must be applied only to the places where they are needed and in iithe degree in which they are needed. 'rhen popular opinion, without which there can be no reforms. will always be with the reformers
 No one can say that the doctrine of socialism may not triumph in some at once, but whenever and wherever it comes 1t will merely displace some part of the then existing system for the better.
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 Pinal county is making noise