| Show THE WORKERS AT A disadvantage tue THE switchmen s strike Is ended their defeat was inevitable from the first firel such will be the result in almost every similar contest content unless the employers happen to be willing to accede to the demands made upon them the latter have on their side in a dispute the nonunion non union element and when necessary all the resources of the government ern ment united labor Is impotent to contend successfully with these forces unless it shall employ force more potential than that directed against itself por for this purpose we feel assured that united labor will yet organize in a military capacity should this opinion be realized a civil revolution would be as sure as that night follows day we see that mr gompers and other labor leaders declare that the home stead lead people will yet be victorious we believe these statements are misleading and we doubt the sincerity of those who make them if these assertions are honestly made the only banis for or them is that the carnegie business la is being placed at a disadvantage on the other hand the hardship under which the workingmen involved are placed to in overwhelm overwhelming ingy y greater the latter must find employment or tion will overtake them and their families if success or failure be based on the question as to which side aide can hold out the longer it must most go to the capitalists who in this case came are so wealthy that they could afford to stop atop the whole business not being dependent upon it in view of the evident situa tion it does oot not seem to be proper for intelligent labor leaders to deceive the workmen and thus throw them into the most distressful conditions ending with complete defeat when the switch mens strike was opened the most moet sanguine assertions were made to the effect that they would be victorious such buch a result was plainly out of ake question the odds being overwhelmingly against them it je is easy for a man to go around with hid hias bands in his pockets most of the work he does being done with his him mouth to hold out chimerical hopes of victory to striking men whose living has been taken away by their being ordered out of their employment the sufferers uffer ers are not so comfortably and securely situated as the men who do the bossing bobbing 02 otherwise their assertion assertions of final victory would not be so pronounced |
