Show I AS TO STRIKE INSURANCE I The manufacturers In their recent session at New Orleans took up very seriously the labor questljn especially as It Is related to strikes and while taking a firm stand against Irresponsible Irresponsi-ble interference in their affairs thi suggestion was made that Insurance against strikes afforded a promising I field for the employment of energy and capital This suggestion has been reinforced rein-forced by recent occurrences In New York where it is shown that walking delegates have used their power to blackmail employers of labor by threatening them with strikes but compromising com-promising on the payment of cash sums varying from a hundred to a thousand dollars which the walking delegate had no need to account for to anybody as nobody wnuld know anything any-thing about It but hlmrolf rnd the man he held up Another form of this blackmail black-mail has ben for a rival In business to bribe a walking delegate to make trouble trou-ble for his competitor and so give the briber full swing In a clear Hold As a consequence of the suggestion at New Orleans with the phass of the situation indicated added a strike Insurance In-surance company has been organized at Louisville Its course will be followed with much interest by the public which will b curious to eee under what conditions the company will pursue Its work It Is to be expected that legislation legisla-tion of some sort corresponding In degree de-gree to legislation l in furtherance of other lines of Insurance will be sought in the States where this strike insurance insur-ance company does business such as penalties for threatening ororganizing strikes punishments for making labor difficulties for one concern so that a rival In business may profit from them and so on Whether there is In fact a real field for the proposed Insurance can only he found by the practical l tNt That this Is being made is well for whatever promises as a legitimate business venture ven-ture may as well be undertaken first as last And one thing Is certain If this form of insurance once secures a firm footing It will be a moat powerful I deterrent of strikes 0 |