| Show IT PROMISES BAD the news newa from the brown strike at cleveland ohio places the labor union members in a very unenviable position besides promising no end of serious trouble before the business is ie finally settled there has been a strike on OD for a long time and recently an agreement was entered into by which the strikers returned to work on friday the union men met and decided anat the terms they had bad seceded acceded to were not suitable and another strike was order ordered tid then when the union men went out and nonunion non union employee emp loyes were accepted the latter at were assailed by the union strikers I and retaliated one of the 1 strikers being killed on saturday on a former occasion oco aion when a similar disturbance tur bance was in progress pro greve another union man on strike was killed by the officers thus far the unfortunate cases of killing have keen been the fault of the strikers they were not satisfied with the terms of employment avid and quit as they had the right to do other men took their places and when argument and persuasion failed to induce the he nonunion non oon union men to espouse the cause of the strikers the latter resorted to the be use nab of unlawful force to compel submission to t their desires then the assaulted men or the i in their behalf acted in self defense and a ad blood was meshed shed the strikers had forced the issue to that extent and are responsible now comes the additional information that some twenty thousand men mea will tie be called to aid the strikers kere by sympathetic action and financial sup lort ort while the strikers themselves are arming and organizing with a view to maintaining their violent attitude by weapons of war it if this story to is true abere is the setting betting up of an unlawful armed organization composed of members of trades unions la in ants antagonism to the regularly constituted official and military force of the state with a good prospect of further bloodshed if if the labor unions called on for ale istance furnish the same the he act will be virtually aiding MOD men who are in rebellion against the peace of ef the commonwealth assuming for the make flake of argument that these rumors and threats are true the business has gone far beyond the were mere action of a lot jot of ugly men on strike it if the latter were ane whole would be quickly and effectively settled by overcoming them in the order ot of law by dorco or otherwise but it is not tae strikers striker extreme and unlawful as some of their claims and actions may be are actuated by what they bey feel is a common injustice and they are further irritated byk by the general feeling ot of dissatisfaction which exists in the country they are not content with abs tbs terms of their employment or with the result of the arbitration they feel that as ingmen they are unjustly crowded into a condition of industrial alavi alaverdy iry As a consequence they are angry to the point ot fighting they are imbued with a common feeling among the people upon this point which to is in many respects eagerly seeking a revolution aud whatever may be the immediate outcome of the abe cleveland strike it if the fighting insurrectionary spirit there displayed among the workingmen does not manifest itself in a upheaval before long in ohio and a good many other states the signs of the times are terribly deceptive the cleveland strike is of itself a small thing but bat it seems to be the sure lure premonition of a much broader trouble |
