Show LABORS LABOIS LOSS BY THE STRIKE thelwall Thel the wall Vall street journal gives given a table showing the annual expenditures and proportion of expenditures expenditure it which RO go to labor tit 0 ten of 0 the great railroads of the united states as follows fol lowa proper per total tion for cent of 0 expenses ep ens wier labor labor aka shore 10 la 0 M A an N Y cent 13 IMM W H 41 44 14 Y C st L 2 W hll lra 2 I 1 t IS m P M ia N Y N H hah ah 1134 63 34 phil read nead 17 I 1 ea 62 penns ivan t A 3 0 ctol ft C IM k stpaul 21 gl lt XU gr C B Q 1792 14 ai sa stern 7 Is 64 3 it will be seen the that mole moie than 60 61 per cent ot of the earnings of the jibe railroads go to labor the lake shore runs into chicago it paid last year year more than to ita laborers that was for tiny fifty two weeks it if it pala paid for fifty two weeks it averaged a week the laborers then on that road by the strike in two weeks lot lost from hat it can be estimated what loss the was to labor itself the estimate Is the total cost coat of the strike Is e estimated j at SS tSO it those figures are correct it 1 la Is plain enough that when a strike Is ordered about one halt half the loss Is to fall on oil labor itself it must bo be understood that this strike was ordered to compel a corporation to open its chops and give labor e employment I 1 1 it goes to prove that or organized g anizel labor itself alts l must put itself under wiser management before it will make it a suc BUC ciss and nil before it will cease to subject itself to immense losses |