Show ii THE CHICAGO Packingmena Protective iff Pro-tective and Benevolent Society one of those associations gotten up for the purpose of injuring employers and employ under the general title of trade union has gone to pieces only J a few of the thousands ot members formerly controlled by it retaining sufficient interest in the organization to attend a meeting called for Saturday t i Satur-day last It was this organization t that inaugurated and managed the i big strike at the Chicago stockyards last winter whereby poor laborers lost many thousands of dollars The union said employers must pay higher wages than they could aflord or were willing to pay and as the latter refused their workmen quit some from choice but others because t they were compelled to do eo by the union After a lockout I lock-out of some weekp the men I were obliged to accept the terms originally offered Laborers will do well to dissolve their connection with I i unions and become independent t Occasionally the society may catch an employer in a tight place and be able to squeeze him into a compliance S with its demands bat it can only be i temporary In the end the employer f em-ployer will get more than even with his men who take advantage of his L necessities to bleed him Very few laborers can afford to lose even the few days or weeks that are wasted in strikes and very few also would lose this time if they were at liberty to work Only the agitators the men who make their money by creating disturbance can aflord to have t strikes indulged In |