| Show DANGEROUS BUSINESS Tho coke strikers of Pennsylvania are preparing themselves for imprisonment if not for violent deaths Tho latter will probably overtake a good many Tho news from Scottsdale is to the effect that the coke works are running some of them with full forces of hands while the strikers are exploding bombs firing guns and intimi dating the new men This state of affairs cannot continue very long The sheriff has declared his inability to preserve order and enforce the law and has been pro vented by violence on two or three occasions from executing writs issued by tho courts The failure of the civil authority will be fol lowed by the calling out of the militia which will make short work of dealing with tho mob The employers are to give notice that if the strikers do not return by a certain day their places will i be declared vacant and will be filled by tho first applicants As many I men are going into tho district for work tho strikers or such of them as escape imprisonment im-prisonment for violation of the law will have occasion to be desperate for they will not only be without wageearning employment employ-ment but without shelter as well and the force of tho state will be turned against them They will also lack the public sympathy sym-pathy so essential to a strike It is sad that men will not learn from experience It Is sorrowful that they will insist upon placing themselves under the direction of tho unwise and inconsiderate the demagogues and blatherskites who almost al-most Invariably lead them to suffering and disaster It is to regretted that so many of tho workingmens unions are so managed and controlled as to be injurious rather than beneficial to the members In the very nature of things the coke strike would be a failure could not succeed and ought not to have been called unless the employees saw where they could obtain work elsewhere Tho country is simply overrun with idle men eager to work for the wages which tho cokers reject and the latter if they would reason with themselves a moment would understand that the newcomers would bo protected in their right to work if it took the entIre military force of the great state to afford the protection So also the strikers if they would stop a moment to think would know that the violence which they are now employing will necessarily result re-sult in their own injury for Pennsylvania will not permit an armed mob to assert itself it-self anywhere within her borders Thus we say the strikers are preparing for imprisonment im-prisonment or to servo as targets for tho rifles of the militia which in a day or two will go to tho support of the civil authority which is being overriden and defied |
