Eureka Reporter | 1904-12-09 | Page 6 | The Loss from Strikes

THE LOSS FROM STRIKES labor disturbances cost an immense amount of money the statistics on this subject show a loss to the country from strikes that is simply appalling we who mho are so familiar with mith the word strike that we scarcely give it a second glance while reading our papers have not tae slightest conception of 0 the vast amount of 0 money that has been lost through labor disturbances available figures show that in the twenty bears ears between 1881 and 1400 1900 there were mere 22 strikes which cost the country in wages mages expenses and direct loss of trade the enorma is sun sum of 0 during the same period there were 1005 1 lockouts cos costing aln making a total of 4 68 here Is a loss of almost half A billiar dollars figured from three liens only that is loss of wages mages assist ance or money advanced to strikers by their sympathizers and loss to em players it would be a fair comsuta tion to estimate an equal sum lost di and indirectly by the general public because of the strikes total one billion dollars in twenty years woman s home companion