The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-28
MONDAY, AUGUST %, 1922.
THE FOLLY OF VIOLENCE.

workers ought TO be evident to ever,
man. Resort to force, to fighting, Il
bluodshed, has never atcomplishc1
anything for anv party Of WORKERS.
This the Informed and thinking lead
crs of workingmen know. Their ef-
forts to prevent violence and disor
der would be prompted by common
sense.
So long as the outbreaks are occo-
sional and scattered and do not result
in paralyzing passenger and freight
serE ice, the masses cf the people arc
not likely to be excited about hen,
When n man in Orargeburg has road
of disturbance in Spencer, y. c.. h"
dismisses it from mind. It is tax
away. The trains ere still runrl~c
md they bring his mails. Tie gcl;a
that ne has ordered are delivered a.
the station. He can buy gasoline az
LHe hlliilg Slalioll
What would happen were the trairs
tc cease ming? The price of COT
ton would for the time drop 200 o;
500 points. The price Of gasoir r
would rise to SO cents or 81 gallor.
Trading would come to an end. COT
ton mills and other industrial plants
would shut down. Suffering would
set in and day by day would grow
more intense.
In South Carolina in round num-
bcrs, are about 100000 white men
Th"7' and thoir families are derend-
ont on railrood transportation fer
many Of the comforts and necessaries
of life. The whole number of men
employed on the railroads in this
state is probsbl31 snd.- s &c :.---t--.- = = -.
certain rnar over 195,O6U men lc
South Carolina would not consent t.
allow themselves to be ruined and
th"i,' families to be subjected to. ex-
treme hardship in order that wage
dispute be settled
We're the danger imminent that the
railroad companies would give up the
attempt-to operate trains. substitute ;
for strikers would volunteer. not bv
dozens and hundreds, but by thou
sands and tens of thousands and what
would take place in South Carolina
would take place throughout the
United States.
In the densely populated Eastern
states, where 20 trains are operate 4
to the mile to one in South Carolina
transportation has not been halted.
Railroad service may be and in places
has been impaired but it does no.
stop. In the degree that it shall b..
'nterfered with, the resolve that l.
shall be maintained will increase.
The success of the strike in pre-
venting trains from running would re
the disastrous failure of the strikers
for the plain reason that the peop!n
Of the country. whatever their svmpa-
thies o. want Of sympathies in re
spect Of the questions at issue, will
not submit to the destruction Of their
business or to its serious injury.
The thought that the people of this
state Or Of any state. would endure
hunger, cold or the sacrifice of NIL
Ions of dollars while a question of
wages is the subject of debate will
lot be entertained by any man in h;s
senses.
The instant that the masses of tn,
people, poor and rich, workers and
employers, begin to feel the pinch and
pain of the strike, that instant will
the people, in one way or another.
put an end to it.
In the South the majority Of the
people already are in financial dis.
tress. They are in no mood to look
serenely upon any outbreak that
would further increase it.
The rise in the price of cotton In
.be last few days is evidence that the
country as whole has no apprehen
sion that transportation will be III
terrupted Were it believed that
fight trains would stop running. lit
tle cotton would be bought while that
belief pre-. allied.
Every blow that is struck in con-
nection with the strike weakens tho
cause of the strikers.
The people can not live without
railroad transportation and they have