Show THE BOYCOTT dispatch from South Bend Ind denies de-nies that a strike has occurred at the great wagon works of tho STUDKBAKERS as reported re-ported in a telegram on Friday morning It was said that the STUDEBAKKRS three thousand men had gone out because the company used CARNEGIES steels Tho first report indicates tho policy which the Homestead strikers wculd like to pursue and it is not improbable that they may be able to carry it out with somo degree of success The boycott is the most powerful weapon that workingmen can employ It beats the Winchester rIfle and dynamite all to pieces There is no manufacturer so rich or powerful that ho can do successful battle with anything like a well organized boycott If the union workingmen could but be loyal to each other for a little while in their refusal to handle tho CARNEGIE manufactures tho millionaire would be brought to his knees and made to supplicate suppli-cate for peace S At the same time Is the boycott a weapon which workingmen can afford to use 1 That is a question which the union should ask itself Presumably tho STUDEBAKBR men are satisfied with their wages are content and prosperous Would it be right to call them out to deprive them of work and the means of earning a living for their families fami-lies because their employers refuse to take sides in a controversy between another employer em-ployer and his men hundreds of miles away We are aware of the argument that 1 an injury to one is the concern of all and yet who will dispassionately say that the StUDEBAKCRs should be punished and their contented laborers made to suffer the loss of work and pay because Mr CARNEGIE has treated his men badly As remarked the boycott is a powerful weapon and can be employed with terribly effective results but it is a vicious weapon as well and unless used with judgment and with discrimination U liable to do much harm |