| Show QUEER LABOR STRIKES It looks as though there was a combination com-bination of some of the chiefs of the labor l unions to make trouble throughout through-out tho summer for political effect Take for instance the strike on the New York Central railroad at Buffalo When the great strike was on the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania road a few years ago the men on tho New York Central numbering many thousands refused to join or sympathize with the strikers declaring declar-ing that they hnd always had most considerate I con-siderate treatment and generous wages from their company and they stood by the company with a loyally which was magnificent But now they have struck and as near as any one can understand un-derstand they have no particular cause of grievance at all Only a month ago the managers raised the wages of the men now on a strike 10 to 12 per cent and tho rate paid Is as high as that prevailing on any other road The managers I man-agers however say that If the trouble Is concerning the wages they arc willing will-ing to discuss it or submit it to arbitration arbi-tration but if i the point at Issue is the control of the working forces the managers man-agers declare flatly that no discussion or arbitration will tako place They insist lhat they are responsible for the safety of the lives of the passengers and of tho trainmen and for the swift and safe carriage of property of enormous enor-mous value and this trust cannot be delegated to tho business agents of the labor unions The New York Post says this was tried once by the Knights or Labor and had to be abandoned The locomotive engineers on the Reading railroad where the Knights were temporarily tem-porarily In control paid very little attention at-tention to orders and to discipline Some of them would stop their trains wherever wher-ever they saw a friend with whom they wanted to gossip The Poat says the strike bears the marks of being originated ori-ginated by professional agitators and It Is evidently tho result oC prosperity rather than poverty that the labor unions arc more exacting now limn ever before and they are making some demands de-mands which the world cannot stand uU THe springllold Republican give a sample At tho Bigelow millu Lowell Mass Jessie Derrick was an operative In the mills But Jessie was an Industrious I l Indus-trious girl did more work than the 1 I union allowed and it expelled her The manager however kept her on the payroll pay-roll Then a delegation of the union went to him with a grievance that he was employing nonunion labor and un IPSS he desisted they would go out I The manager asked what nonunion labor la-bor ho was employing and found that it was Jessie Derrick Ilq asked why she was expelled and was told that she had done too much worlc lie told them t Jcssio would stay Thereupon a strike followed Several hundred weavers and I spinners wont out Then ho manager rIO t tlmei1tP down Vhnitlpg out P1C whole crowd What manager would not have done the same thing I |
