Show PICKETS AND HItS The shooting of ot tIe five union pickets by hy byn n negro In Chicago h Is n most regrettable affair but It Is Ie Just nn an affair n 0 might bo be expected at nt ony time As s to the tho merits of or this J particular case ca e It is Ie to speak with certainty In Ining ing nil the tho blame nn on tho strikebreaker while ho wy ho fired nr d In self liCit defense i The history of ot strikes tho outrage from them would lead lond to the tho belief Hint the tho pickets undertook to t intimidate and molest the tho strIke brenk cr crl It is III very ver doubtful If a cr or ever made a n voluntary unprovoked on un a 0 picket tho UiO are the Tho of at all tho trouble Is that tho th strikers ns os a n rule deny to non nonunion union men the right to earn n 1 liveli livelihood hood Now that Is III the tho of ot every cery everyman man born Into luto thin world he should and must In be he protected i in It It 11 Is tho denial of ot this right by bythe the tha unions that so much trouble f Hut It t exists notwithstanding such do de lal I ery man mall has a n right to Join a n nunIon union If It eo 10 minded hilt but so far nn All hla legal rights are concerned they are aro nei nel neither ther added to nor nur taken tallen from by his hili relations to It II Strikes generally an unreason unreasonable able to compulsion anti abandon abandonment i mont ment of at Their methods methode I tho tholo o of ot force tOMo which meant that soon lIoon or or later Inter there will be resort to vio violence 0 lence by b some participating In them And AmI this In of ot nil the leaders cnn CAn CAndo do to prevent It Picketing Is an nil 1111 Invitation If tation to it It Is III most sincerely to bo hoped that this instance of ot violence no matter 1 whether tho strikebreaker Was Willi right i or wrong no matter whether the tho pick el t were the or not will 11 not be repented |