Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-02-17
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We are hearing these days much a.
bout strikes and rumors of tstrikes.
1t is by no means an isolated phenomea.
In fact it is very common and further
more. it threatens to become much
more frequent and general in the tut
ire 1t is mot confined to the men,
We find the. girl garment 4W0 psts In IN
gaging in STRIKES. 1t is not confined
to America, nor even to the European
race. Even semi barbarous workers
resort to it at times. Away back IN
antiquity we find the workers welding
the strike with great effect. some
Of the most thrilling, as well as me
most pathetic chapters of Roman ana
Irecian, history deal with the uprising
Of the workers against. onerouS con-
[litions of existence. The shepherd
Etruscan hills. by the Roman nobility:
reduced to a slave taught the arts OF
the gladitor, and made to mur9er ms
felloW-slaves in the Coliseum Tor tne
amusement of the ruling class OF ms
time His escape, his. gathering ana
marshallin2 of the slaves under BIS
command, his wonderful genlous Ior
strategy and organization, ana the.
marvellous campaigns in WHICH ne
hurled his tatter-de- malion, like
thunder-bolt against the consular arm
them like shells, still CHALLENGES, the
.adInira ton. of mankind, Spartacus was
a STRIKER of the first magnitude. Ais
soul revolted at the degrading conol.
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lad been reduced. What could he DO?
Quietly submit? No? He chose the on
" manly course. He flung the, nag OF re-
volt to the winds and served notice on
the' Roman =murderers that he Would
rather die in the open, breathing me
air Of freedom, with his feet upon the
earpeted green gre n + than ard 10 perish amy
The strike" today is a revolt "A
gainst what? Against degrading condl-
tons of of existence. 1t is a t Rrotest the
workers vn know how to use. They are
not striking for champagne suppers'
for automobiles, for a college educao
ton. or for IA any y,0 on tn cIasses Their
demands are far humber They are
lust asking that they be permitted TO to
i've like hgmanS be T9e are a ask a not to
hours Of work IS will not destroy
sthem. They ask that they be gwen gwen
nssx cent of the people consist>ot BANK
and private servants, and because tney
are the direct tools of the Weaitny ulle
per cent. they are gwen ap tteica W." as
much as the real producers. one , Per
cent retain about half the wealth: rms IL.
gives each family of the wealthy OYER e
a hundred t. times mes me ms average ''-'''
k, All power or ppoft ess V or priest could
WELD power if he had had n no W 1fe8 OF
tabor leaders think they have ac.
complished wonders when they can
organize labor so. ass to force wages NY
10 per cent of it's present feeelPls. ,e
y As we saw above labor got but 10
nor cent of what it produced;sa ~ per
cent would make say y per ceh ~
a 20 per cent increase Woeiot nlan t s ~
per cent Of the total: 2 81 pei hs een
hevond ever asking by the labor unions
vet that would be but 70 per cent cent % q,
what they produced. Tnefe Was
Unrest had seized the workers, the par
asjtes were offering all xmas OF p!dt-
itudes when some voices from tne MUS I;s
Of the multitude cried; }false q , uls
eliminating standard; and lev an tlIo ,t
Z ho maintain and nourish mankind py
useful lobors gather around ~ anu
uo., will discover the enemy that preys
upon you. +ha ,at
| Am 5iyided itself at once iHtos Two
bndies of unequal magnitude ana CON
trasted appearance. 1ne oHS; ~ ia i,
cradle, and almost Iotal, ~
| ia red appearance and shn-oqf4t raves .5
The marks of misery and LABOR; tne
other a little group san lnsIgn 1.ll
faction presented in it's rich attlre EN-
hroiSared with lace and furs, and IN
Lifts sleek and rudy faces the sis ~ u
fieisure and abundance ,f
The great body was. conposs5o II. ~
farmers, artifcers, merchants s,ld t aal
littie group was made up Of priests OF
fsseis : order, Of finaneiers, of mobiles;
Eof men in livery Of commanders and s,;, Ct
armies: in a word, Of the evil stoy Ia1l,-
49,. 49, These two. bodies being as
/ seIhpIe9n ~ oY,isi3 rnent:7I saw in
Il other =, q "a sre aTisine in one side
i olsn o.t aAt IF naTic in the other; and
i she iarge body said to the little one
i sztS,sy re- you separated from .us1 aEe
Won, not of our number
are the people; We are tdr,s s -