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Show FREIGHT HANDLER'S STRIKE ENDED. We noted in a former issue the conflict between labor and capital, referring especially to the fifteen hundred freight handlers in New York who struck for additional wages. Now after two months of idleness, the majority of these men are returning to the several railroad companies and requesting to be reinstated in their former positions and at the old rate of wages. Some have been taken back, but in many instances, vacant posts have been satisfactorily filled by men who helped the companies in their hour of emergency, and of course these applications can not be acceded to, only in a partial manner. The loss of wages to the strikers is estimated at over $100,000. We trust in the future, that men who contemplate striking for an advance of wages, will first count the cost. The chances as a general rule, are nearly always against the striker, and victory whenever gained by a long period of suffering, privation and anxiety, is at best, only a dubious advantage. |