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Show About the most senseless movements move-ments of the year are the present labor strikes in New York, where there are one thousand idle men, looking in vain for work to enable them to keep out of the soup shops. The dullness of trade has so effected all kinds of business that a reduction of wages became indispensable, and the longshoremen, coopers and stone masons, who have strong trade societies, socie-ties, locked themselves out of work, refusing to resume until the old wagfts were restored. This was mistaken mis-taken action at a time when there were so many surplus hands ready to step in and take their places at almost al-most any rate of wages. We have no fault to find with the efforts, of work-ingmen work-ingmen to improve their condition; but it is seldoM that they do not lose more than they gain by strikes; and in this case it ii probable that tho New York strikers will not only lose their positions and wages during a hard winter, but will have to undergo the mortification of defeating their objects through their own folly. |
