Douglas Island news., 1909-04-14
Strikes
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 system that recognizes the so-called indiscrimiuate strike for any cause whatsoever, which is not absolutely confined between employer and em- ployee.
 It. seems that healthy public senti- ment is needed on this subject to conn- teract the long period during which la bor organizations have been incul- eating this erroneous idea among the working masses of our country. The government provides a remedy for every wrong among it's citizens, and when it permits one class to redress their real or supposed grievances, either by personal or collective action, the door must be open in tue same way for all others, and anarchy, in its most absolute form, will be the final result.
 It is vital to a republican form of | RON6EuuSub .JDdC SNSIS ilNi''N""' ' class living under it shall stand equally before it's administrative, legislative or judicial department of justice. Where private citizens are obliged to take the adjustment of their wrongs before es- abolished courts, labor as we'll as capi' tai should be required to adjust theirs in the same way.
 With the power of perfect organiza- tion, the labor leader has proceeded to cajole and intimidate the municipal of ficers' state representatives and finally the national congress itself. As an i'm mediate part of this brutal campaign of tyranny the labor agitator has made large section of the press of this country his own and from this he manipulates the public sentiment and so long as he carries on this cam paign of publicity and no one is found with sufficient courage to combat and explode his sophistries, he will con- tinue to do so and, in doing so, he will not only increase his own power with bis own organization but he will be in- strumental in controlling public sen timent. It would seem to be the duty ] of every association of manufacturers and employers to devote large part of their efforts and resources to publicly contending with and combating these sophistries which have been preached into the laboring men for so many years and with no one to continually point to them, in public manner, the error and suicide contained therein. The boycott is the natural result which always follows a strike and this particular phase of trades unionism has been negigently ignored by news papers and other periodicals. It is only actual physical violence against the rights of liberty or property that has received any considerable notice. The more peaceful methods of encroaching on these snme rights have been left practically uncriticized. While the open and forcible intliction of injury will never succeed in winning public appreciation or the entire consent of all the courts, the more peaceful meth ods are the more dangerous and alarm ing because subtle in their operation. Though they are fully as great an en- croachment upon individual and pub. lie rights and canse as much, if not more, substantial damage, they are more easily disguised and concealed and to the superficial observer are not so fragrant. It is this permanently es- tablished system of running others that demands public opposition; the cease less knawing of the silent boycott which in nearly all cases follow the boycott and strike.
 In our own community, strike or a walkout of workmen on well-known