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Show THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT. bile the whole country is warming ui to the liveliest election campaign It hasuocKcafora number of years two powers arc quietly marshal, their torccs for another ronton t-. twilrwulttf which it is difficult Uiagmc to-day. i.apit knd Llbo acitiy accept a condition, of wur, an n'tir th.'rm-se!ves to prepare for tr struggle. The telegraph yesterdoy brought the information that the executive exe-cutive committee ot the employers' league, in New York, are endeavoring lo perfect arrangements to combine all the employers in the United States so as to prevent strikes. In other words, they Ecek to effect a union of capitalists capital-ists all through the country to combat the trades unions, and compel workmen to accept their terms. Oa the other hand, the executive committee of the eight-hour league aro seeking to effect such a combination as will enable them to renew tho struggle next year with a fair hope of securing success. Both sides possess immense power, which can only be exerted in such a contest for general evil. The late strikes in New York have seriously injured the business in that metropolis, for independent inde-pendent of tho great direct loss to workmen work-men and manufacturers by tho stoppage stop-page of work, heavy orders that could not wait upon striking labor have been transfprrfld In ntlipr nln-vs And should the proposed general strike be inaugurated next year, and manufacturers manufac-turers organize tho contemplated union to oppose it, f.ho inevitable conflict would be nearer at hand than most pooplc think. |