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Show The Pennsylvania coal miners now on strike seem determined to gain a notoriety as unenviable as the Sheffield Shef-field trades unions acquired some time ago. If men cannot secure fair wages for fair work, by unions, in the United States, without resorting to bloodshed, wanton destruction of property and atrocities that might be expected from Apache Indians but not from civilized men, it is about time such unions ceased to exist. These men may band themselves together and say they will not work. There is no law to prevent them reducing themselves to beggary in this fashion, and keeping their families fami-lies in starvation. But when they tell other men they also must cease working, work-ing, then they invade the sacred rights of their fellows; and when they proceed pro-ceed to enforce this illegal order by violence, wantonly destroying property and taking life, they become criminals of the rankest kind, and make their unions infamous. |