The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-24
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reduce it to the plight of other business concerns which are run on these low principles.
 Their motive may be the per sona1 greed of the speculator, or they may wish to change the pol icy of a business whose example is embarrassing to employers who do not want to do what is right by tIeir employees.
 But how gain control-that is the spectators problem. One of the simplest ways is The Strike With a Concealed De- sign.
 It works this way: The indus try to be attacked cannot be touched from within, because it's men have no reason to strike. So another method is adopted. The business in question may keep many outside shops busy supply ing it with parts or material. If these outside shops can be tied up then the great industry may be crippled, and that is what the spectators want.
 So strikes are fomented in the outside industries. Every attempt is made to curtail the factorys source of supplies. It is a simple game when once understood, and the public has no idea how often it is played.
 Now, if the workingTnen of the outside shops knew what the game is, they would refuse to play it, but they don't know; they serve as the tools of de- signing capitalists without know ing it. There is one point, how ever, that ought to rouse the sus- picions of workingmen engaged in this kind of strike. If the strike cannot get itself settled no matter what either side offers to do, it is almost positive proof that there is a third party, a. hid den hand, interested in having the strike continue. That hid den influence does not want a settlement on any terms. It's whole profit is in the trouble and in the continuance of the trou- ble.
 If such a strike is won by the strikers, is the lot of the work ingmen improved? ? After throw ing the industry into the hands of outside spectators, are the workingmen given any better treatment or wages?
 Who is most likely to work with the workingnan along lines of progress and prosperity: the manufacturer whose home is where his plant is, whose reputa- ton among his neighbors is dear to him, whose interest in his en1- ployes Is born of acquaintance and daily Fellowship ?-or the outsider, the speculator, the prof. teer, who does not know his men from iron spikes and whose only interest in the industry is to squeeze dollars out of it until it is dry?
 That is the pity of some strikes which finger on and on after settlements are possible the deluded strikers are fighting the battles of cunning spectators and do not know it.
 Then there is a third kind of strike-tne strike that is pro- voked by the Money Interests for the purpose of giving Labor a bad name- The American Work man has always had a reputation for sound Judgment. He has not allowed himself to be led away by every shouter who promised to create the millennium out of thin air. He has had mind of his own and has used it. He has always recognized the funca- mental truth that the absence of reason was never made good by the presence of violence.
 In this way the American Workingman has won a certain prestige with his own people and throughout the world. Public Opinion has been inclined to re- gard with respect his opinions and desires.
 But there seems to be de-