Show F r SOME STRIKE THOUGHTS THOUGHTS I t Str Strikes kes are such disastrous things as a rule for all concerned that sensible men will avoid I them when that seems possible The Tile situation in where members of three important important im im- im- im Salt Lal Lake e City toda today crafts are involved in c contention with their present or late employers is not to be regarded without regret and concern and it is to be hoped that the trouble may blow over oyer and amicable settlements settlements settlements set set- be reached f Strikes often unhappy consequences such as the boycott and the black list list one one being about as bad as the other We Ye hope to see all such results herl Th ll The boycott for example whether applied by employer or employed by capital capi tal or labor is an obnoxious and American un-American I thing tiling equally with the black list It excites public public pub pub- and in all lic lie sympathy for the victim everywhere cases hurts the tho cause that backs it As an illustration of how the boycott is apt to I I york work there is a u millionaire publisher in who once was the object of one When he left Harvard instead of swelling the ranks of starving ng In lawyers he learned the printers printer's s trade Then he hC went and anel established a small daily in a minor New cw England city There was a a. paper there already conducted by a man one of whose brothers s waS th the leading preacher of the place and another ol old concern was supported was w-qs c county clerk The concern hv by county and ancl town fl advertising and was was of the e sort bJ edited with a pair r of scissors Ju generally r f said aid to be p with a t scoop shovel shove S i. i t i ml made up tip editor sho show that he So did the new now No cc sooner 10 could give the people of the community something they wanted to read than the tile family of the opposition opposition opposition including preacher county clerk pot paste I editor and their female relatives started in to do doup doup up 1 the interloper The preacher declared that the religious religions views of the newcomer were heter heterodox dox the county clerk got the chief pf of police to threaten the newsboys with awful if they dared to sell his journal and all hands went around among fl friends ends and begged them not to patronize him Did they accede to this request They did not Sympathy Sympathy thy was aroused for the persecuted and he throve I The rhe other fellow is now at an advanced age night- night watchman at his publishing house No boycotts and black lists and all such underhand measures are not the kind of things American people like The public of this country always stands for fair fairplay fairplay fairplay play while it does not view yiew a straight out manly fight with disfavor There is no just reason why labor should not maintain its rights but in the present instance we sincerely hope that there may be no occasion for continued disturbance of good relations between local employers and It would be a happy thing if all parties concerned could get together shake hand hands and forget it |