Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-06-25
HE GENERAL STRIKE is an industrial messiah
the minds of the emotional irreligious: Always

The GENERAL STRIKE is an industrial messiah in
/ the minds Of the emotional irrelgous. Always has
oppressed mankind sought short cut to its ideal But
always has there been disappointment for there is no
short cut Columbus seeking the short cut to India found
a stormy and mountainous continent to cross me
early Christians found instead OF the cherished short cut
dreary life painful death OF martyrdom. The ninety
million slaves Of Rome finally their promised land
kept from them by Of their own crimson blood Never
has there been short and easy way.
When machinery came to do the work of England the
workers thought the easy was to destroy them And
they lost When machines came to America the workers
thought the easy way to ignore them and they lost
The hard way in England and America would have been
to them The hard way would have won But natural
erta keeps back from doing only wha6we find are
The easy way Just now seems to be the General
Strike Since know that the wealth Of the world flows
only from the work of the world have but to stop the
work. and all is but the shouting Since this be
accomplished by the workers acting in unison and since
they kept divided by their various organizations and
no organization we but have to have 9ae Big Union.
It simple: Just like Columbus knowing that the
world round knew that by sailing west he would
east again Just like the Roman slaves who knew that
they were the strength of Rome and had but to turn
against their creature to destroy it. Just like the English
factory workers who knew that they tore the machine
apart could mot do their work. Just like the American
workers who knew that if theyu kept the secrets Of
their trade those things OF steel and steam could
learn them But continents and centuries stood between
Columbus and his goal other ignorant millions helped
Rome crush their brothers, strapped machinery was
assembled and the ignored machine steadily and stealth
lily aped and the handwork Of man. until to-
day the workers have been driven to the desperate ex
pedent of asking laws to protect them from the hopeless
competition of the most perfect product Of the untrng
accomplishing, unceasing machine.
Now the advocates Of the general strike and tell
to learn all these lessons again They tell us that
all haveo do to bring about the revolution is to re-
volute The facts of history being disconcertng their
plans they simply sweep aside It them the trouble
of thinking. r
Now general strike hardly be- except under con
dtions where it would not be necessary To be
full must be accompanied by solidarity of the workers.
and when the workers have their solidarity they will
have attained their end and more than a general
strike could gain.
The easiest thing in all this world Of work is talk The
general strike advocates but talk They not the men
who have toed for years in the dscouragng and often
times heart task Of trying to reach their fellow
workers with the message Of unionism They have not
given long years filed up with days and nights of work
and worry for the cause of Labor For this in itself
school, and teaches that there no short cut that the
workers only what they have the understanding to
DO and that the reason why there still millions outside
the ranks of organized labor not because of the officials
or the bylaws of the unions that exist but simply because
they DO not know enough to join together. /
Just now the general strike is being held up to the
Th1s are they to stop the coal from coming into Ohio
out strike is on in Colorado in British Com