| Show STRIKES CO cooper COOPEE the founder of the institute in new york that geeb gees by his name recently spoke ut a public meeting in that building the follow ing sensible sentences on strikes 1 I am opposed to strikes on the part of laboring men for in dylong my long iong experience experiences during which my lot has been among the toilers boilers toi lers and my lifers aim has been for their benefit I 1 have generally found that coercive measures were more frequently detrimental to the min than man helpful to them that they bub sub slated stated during these periods of cessation from labor onn oll their own scant savings and that in the end they wore were poorer than when they began i I 1 do not deny them the right to strike nay en on the contrary contraro i it to the right right of every man to res resist isai last oppression but their welfare must always be first considered in all an such movements there is ono one great trouble to bo be apprehend apprehended eds and it is one that should be guarded aga against inet that is that laboring men should not be led by men for their own political or selfish purposes this if it accomplished will certainly in time lead to anarchy |