Show I THE RIO GRANDE STRIKE AVhat the Gniinison f rec Prcvs Bias to Say of the Matter The strike which was inaugurated this morning on the Rio Grande says the Gunnison Free Press of Monday is the most general and sweeping that has occurred oc-curred on that road for years It does not grow out of the usual cry of poor pay or long hours work but from the comparatively compara-tively unimportant fact that the company discharged two men who belonged to the secret order of workingmen and then fired the committee which called to protest pro-test against such discharge The Rio Grande officials are not wholly unprepared for the strike They have I two months supply of coal scattered alongthe road and seem to have been preparing for the very clash that occurred oc-curred today In Gunnison the railroad boys who are members of the order are most of them poor and cannot afford to lose a single day much less a week or their job Joining the society has rendered I ren-dered it necessary that they obey this order to leave their goodpaying job It is doubtful whether in the long run the I many organizations to protect the laboring labor-ing men are not a cure to them and the direct cause of more sorrow than happiness happi-ness The Denver Rio Grande road is in the hands of the United States Court I To interfere with the operation of a single engine on the road is lying the offender liable to the Court and will in all probability pro-bability result in committing the strikers babity for contempt We simply suggest this point and it might be WeJ for the strikers < o consider it before carrying their opposition oppo-sition to the working of property in the hands of the United States Court too far |