The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-09
STRIKES FIzzLING OUT.

STRIKES FIZZLTNG OUT. y
The. great miners strike in the
Occur d'Alenes is over. The men are
koing back to work. They have been
ut since July Is, have lost three
aouths' work at good wages and go
Iack 10 work at the old scale. Many
ave lost their positions, others have
eft the district and the net result is
hat the miners haFe lost three
months, the mines have been closed,
industry paralyzed and nobody has
|een helped.
The great steel strike that was to
lie up all industry in the United
states by closing the steel mills and
declaring their products unfair" and
hus stopping their use by union labor
kveywhere, is gradually but slowly
izzling out. Every day more and
more men return to work and even
he strike leaders make no claim of
more men quitting, so the advantage
s clearly with the steel trust.
Spokane pressmen struck on Ostob-
ri for an increase of wages that their
Employers could not pay. The men
have now cut down their demands I'M
il they were within so cents per week
Il the offer made by the employers,
md then the men agreed to arbitrate,
which they had ~steadfastly refused to
o before. The result will be a COM
promise in which both sides will have
been the loser.
Yesterday was Mooney Strike Day"
throughout the northwest and reports
kOday show that a total of less than
100 persons, including the 'lady" CD
barbers of Seattle, went out in SYM
bathy with the California arch muir
lerer of women and children.
The strike as a weapon is losing its
popularity. 1t has failed so many,
many times to bring anything but dis
ster to the laborers that even they are
ketting leary of it and after a few days
bf rest from their labors, they drift
back to work. The strike is a sembl-
knce of mob rule. 1t has the sanction
IL few who respect the laws and want
10 help mankind, generally. Strik-
bs are generally called by unscrupul-
bus labor leaders who nave nothing at
5take, for their salary goes on while
he union men who pay that salary
Ire earning nothing.
Mathew Wall, a member of the ex-
S~cutive committee of the American
Federation of Labor, said at Hamil-
ON, Ontario, a few days ago:
what retards trades union progress
& not so n.sch hostility and the cap-|
|~talistic classes, t'st the professional
Igitator, who is responsible for the
disruption. He uses the strike weapon
lot as an economic weapon, but as a
revolutionary weapon with the ulti-
hate idea of starting a soviet gov
Ernment."
THE NON-STRIkING FARMER.
Multnomah Pomona grange has
by resolution f%orcefully
10 the now familiar pronunciamentos
Df the country's farmers against the
strike epidemic:
Believing that the world can be re-
facilitated alone through toll and
- 4L4 ..o1iof f~oro rroconf cnn1i-l
ions and the saving OF u institu-
depend altogether upon the in
production of all commodit~
we pledge the farmers Of this
to do their full share in in
food commodities and
.olemnly agree that they will not
decrease the ours OF their
abDr, or enter into any combination
Q decrease production. We call upon
IL other classes of society to do like
rise. Those who strike and paralyze
Industry are unconsciously contribut-
NJ to the very conditions against
rhich they protest
This grange regulation ought to be
4 interest to the labor conventions
i Bend, where the proposal origin
ting with Portland labor leaders for
combination of unions and farm
examinations for political ends is to
e seriously discussed. 1t is an old
dage that 1t takes two to make a
Oregqnian.
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