Show Too Toe Much uch p Power for Any Gro Group p Invariably wh w n attempts are made to o organize governmental governmental govern govern- mental menal in n labor unions the claim is made that the union will renounce to strike That claim is made because there here is of course no legal or moral right to strike against the government The pledges sound good but experience proves they do not mean anything We had another example of that the other day in Cleveland when city han hall workers struck in their attempt to enforce demands for salary increases Fortunately for Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- Cl Veland Ve- Ve land the strike didn't last long but there were threats of a walkout walkout walkout walk walk- out of all of Cleveland's organized city employee The head of the Cleveland Federation of Labor said he would call a strike of allA all allA A A. F FL L municipal workers if city officials filed civil servi service e charges against the striking city hall han workers And the business representatives representative of the A F L Municipal Laborers and City County Truck Drivers' Drivers union announced that their 2000 members would join the strike if the city hall hail workers set lIet up picket lines G Governmental ve mental organized in labor u ut unions ions do strike That's all aU there is to it And their strike weapon is a powerful one These public can cripple cr any city almost overnight if they all walk out Safety health garbage disposal sewage disposal and many other essential services performed by municipal lEal can an be halted throwing a city into a chaotic and perilous situation The strike weapon in the hands of governmental particularly of a municipality Is a terrible weapon which is is' directed against the people and their welfare Theoretically wello well o organized city could win any demand by usi using g the strike weapon because the people are at their mer mercy y It is ls s 's too much muc power to put into the hands o of any group and a and d since experience proves S that the power is used if it is placed in their hands by acceptance of f city ity unionization iop the only answer for the people and for their elected representatives is to refuse under any c conditions to recognize or permit city to form labor unions |