Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-08-25 | Page 21 | The South and the Strike

THE SOUTH AND THE STRIKE These are thc facts Here we have In the North the labor organization growing more powerful all the time and raising their demands In hours and wages They have demonstrated the strength of a giant In their dealings with that other giant capital They I have been able by a word to close enterprises 4 en-terprises whose dally operations amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars At the same time in the South where negro labor is not only unorganized unor-ganized but where organization Is practically Impossible the mills have been going on turning out products thit come In direct competition with the Northern mills which the union men have stopped from work I There Is I In this contract something for sober thought for both capital and labor Each must recognize thc rising f In the South of n tremendous competitor competi-tor which Is making money while they of the North are losing millions by their differences I means much to the Northern laboring man much to those whom he is bound to protect and much to the communities o which he Is a member Cheap labor from the Car East Is a remote contingency which has little relation to the present Cheap labor In the far South Is a fact working day and night LeV the North lose the steel business to this competitor and It will never get it i back Mark that worklngmon Heed that capitalists Leslies Weekly