The Washington herald., 1919-10-05

"For that matter. Abe. burglars
amt the only strike breakers which
the American Federation hint reck-
oned with. There is q whole lot OF
other 50 to speak scab elements in
strikes which not only does the fed :
GRAFTON not take into consideration but
couldn't deal with effectively II they
did. cumberland" Morris said. Take
a milk drivers strike for instance and
tie worst strike breaker Of all is the
milkman's own baby. In the same
way drug clerks can organize and
compel everybody to Join their union
except an influenza epidemic and II
fhe fireman Of Boston go out on strike
In sympathy with the Boston police.
a lot of unsympathetic fires will start
and practically force the fireman 10
go back to work just as effectively az
II the Pinkertons had brought in q
couple Of trainloads Of nonunion- flre-
men from out-of-town places. Sc
that's the way II goes, Abe. As long
as strike affects only the property OF
the bosses. the union has got the best
Of 1t, but as soon as strike destroys
the property and even the lives. Of the
strikers and their families as well
strike breakers"
But in the case Of q police strike
and a firemen's strike, Mawruss.
the strikers Is practically the bosses
took because this Is a republic,
amt 1t, and the police of Boston is
working for the people of Boston,
which IL the policemen and firemen
amt people-what are theyi Am ]
right or wrong?" Abe demanded.
well TIL tell you, Abe" Morris
said. Labor has come into so much
power lately that it's acting like q
poor man which has suddenly come
into q whole lot of money. It is
spending 1t foolishly. In the same
way that a suddenly rich schnorrer
will buy one automobile and then
another automobile until he has got
enough automobiles ror q taxicah
corporation. Labor is using its sud
den power for strikes and strikes
and still more strikes. Sooner or
later such a rich man finds out
that he can get something else for
his money more satisfactory than
automobiles. Abe. and II won't be
long before Labor f1nds out that
Il can get an outlet for its power
In other ways besides striking"
"And then Capital will long for
the good old days when Labor just
went on strike and let IL go al
that" Abe commented.
Capital wouldn't do nothing oi
the kind" Norris said. These here
police strikes. milk strikes and coal
strikes Is proving that labor and
Capital has both got homes to be
protected. children to be fed and
bodies to be warmed. and probably
in ten years from now IL a police
force went on strike il would be
met by strike of milk drivers re-
fusing to deliver milk to the fam
lilies of striking policemen and fire.
men refusing to put out fires i'm the
houses of striking policemen. That
will be the day of unsympathetic
strikes. Abe. and sympathetic leg
islation, instead of vice versa as IL
Is today. which I see that several
United States Senators is starting
rival or Klaw & Erlanger tour
to Mr.. Wilson's only original oil
Shubert tour"
But the Senatorial or X. & z
tour amt receiving much publicity
Mawruss," Abe said. which unles,
Senator johnson gets his jewel!
stolen on him or some of them othel
Senators don't hurry up and figure
in a divorce suit or something. theil
tour is apt to die on them. anyhow
so far as the newspapers is con-