Cleveland County herald., 1921-04-21
BRITAIN'S STRIKE.

It will be a fine thing for Great Britain and the world at large if the threatened industrial strike in that empire can be averted.
 The men on both sides should be able to see that such strike at the present time might easily be death blow to the nation.
 Great Britain, heavily taxed both in men and money is i'll able to stand such crisis as this threatened strike would probably bring about.
 The rest of the world will be bene- fitted by a peaceful settlement of this strike and it might serve as an example to the people of other na- tions when they become filled with desire to rise up and disrupt their governments.
 The world has been torn with the strife of warfare too long already for these internecine struggles to keep up indefinitely.
 Neither the captains of industry nor labor will ever get all they de- sire in this world and when one side wins a victory it only whets their appetite to struggle for still more.
 As long as strikes occur, followed by the wanton destruction of proper ty, this world will never see industrial peace nor any other kind.
 A method must be found to settle labor troubles without strikes that are followed by great destruction of property.
 The laboring man has the moral and legal right to strike, of course, but he hasn't any right to enter upon property that doesn't belong to him and destroy it.
 The cry of labor is that it has built the factories and dug the mines of the world and is entitled to fair share in the profits. This is all right theoretically, but labor always fails to take into consideration the capital that first starts tlese facto- ries and good business judgment which guides them successfully over the shoals-shoals, for instance, like business is encountering at the pres- ent time
 The British miners on strike would not allow the mine owners to even keep the water pumped out of their mines and now if the strike is settled peacefully and the men return to work it will require several days and much money to repair the damage that could have easily been avoided.
 The world at large loses too much of its wealth in such wanton destruc- tion. This destruction could be avoided if men would curb them selves and avoid unnecessary waste, especially at this time when all the world is in need of it's every re- source.
 If the workers in Great Britain should carry out their strike inten- tions and succeed in overthrowing the government in what shape would they find themselves? The splendid trade which Britain has built up would be destroyedd.
 The working class could not very successfully run their country on the basis on which it is now being con ducted, because they have not the necessary experience nor the ability, because whenever a laboring man shows the ability to do other things he does not long remain a laboring man.
 There is a labor unrest in this country which threatens great dam age to the welfare of the country and if the laboring men of Great Britain can settle their differences without threatening the stability of the government, our own laboring men may be able to do the same thing.
 Under present conditions we are always sitting on the brink of volcano which may erupt at any time unless sane judgment prevails.