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Show GOVERNMENT AGAINST STRIKES It has become an established policy of the state and federal governments to not encourage strikes fomented by radical labor leaders. It has been known for sometime that the I. W. leaders are planning plan-ning a general strike in the lumber industry for May 1. Radical literature has been distributed by organizers for -the I. W. V. and signatures to hundreds of the Red Revolution cards have been secured in the great lumbering districts of the West. The strike will involve not only recognition of the Wobbly organization, or-ganization, but is to be accompanied by parades, rioting and possible pos-sible destruction of industries. ' I. W. W.'s do not pretend that there is any grievance about wages or hours, but base their fight on the socialistic policy of general gen-eral objection to capitalizm. Strikes and laboring disturbances under high wages, short hours, good housing and good working conditions are a crime again-tt again-tt our country and would prostrate the biggest industry in the West. State and federal authorities are justified in using the extreme limit of authority to prevent such a calamity overtaking the laboring men themselves. |