Show I VIOLENCE VIOLECE WILL nIL CEASE sr When the tho laboring men inca of oC the countr country country coun coun- tr try fully Cully realize their responsibilities as they now do their power there will wi be an nn end of violence as a means to compel settlement of their differences differences differ differ- with wih employers Nothing has b been cn more illustrative than the trial of Shea of or Chicago When he and his fellows cHows faced the re refusal ro- ro fusai of an employer to make concession concession concession conces conces- sion Shea is declared by witnesses to have said I r will wi tip tie Ut up Chicago trade And he proceeded rather successfully to do It IL It He lie was commanding commanding com corn manding manding general in what was recognized recognized as a state of oC war warrn The forces ho lie directed dolled defied the tho officers 0 of the law In the effort to restore and preserve preserve pre pre- serve serve peace They committed assaults without number and death In more than a dozen cases the tho tto struggles struggles In which angry men engaged These Thes assaul assaults were Invariably di directed dl- dl against Jen who were work worl ing Ing It I was the purpose of Shea's followers fol tol- lowers to cripple the mn who re remained remained re- re on the wagons wagons- or otherwise assisted the teamsters teamsters During the four our months that the tho turbulence continued continued con con- there thero were few tow days day when Innocent Innocent in innocent In- In pa passers ers on the streets were not injured by missiles thIO n thrown thron by strikers cr ers ems or b by the men inca employed by Shea's governing committee to prevent the thel l of ot business business The trouble extended Into nearly every line of oC city enterprise Merchants who had no concern whatever wl with the firms put under under tho ho ban by Shea were deprived of ot the services of ot their drivers and even cven the drivers of the express companies com corn panics were stoned from their Jobs and compelled to leave their wagons In the streets it I was anarchy pure and simple for tho the whole of ot tho the summer lu Iu a general generala a way it I lid did not do th the cause cuse of ot organized labor any good am anc 1 certainly did the city and the tho citizen a a. a great deal of hn harm n It I seems able that tha It did the members of or tin th unions themselves I a very serious in jur Jury Hundreds of or them lost positions positions tons which they had been boon years enra I li II achieving and th there re was poverty am ant distress e s In fn the homes of oC most of them One feature of th the lie strike wn was th thu refusal of oC the union teamsters to hau coal to one of the lie schools because th thu coal company had been blacklisted and anc the pupils and anti teachers struck In iii s sympathy with ith the general genel- movement move mo ment merit innus and directed b bj Shea Plc President Roosevelt came calu Chicago while the strike o was in progress pro gress and 1111 a committee from froni Shea's Shen headquarters went to his hotel lintel to call cal upon him In the hope that lint he hc would prevent the then threatened use uso or of ih the regular arm army to assist the tho police Ir I restoring order And Arid the ent told them Behind the city stands stand the state and behind the state the na run- ton tion Order must be preserved It I broke the thc confidence of o the tho strike leaders and gave great spur to the energy en en- er erg ergy of the lends friends of oC law and order and the strike soon came to an end It I will wi bo be well ell fur fn the good of at Chicago Chi cago but better beter lou foj the good of organized or or- labor labom abol everywhere to lo make clear tho the fact that lint violence Is not a n proper weapon for fou the settlement o ol 01 labor laboi difficulties TIle THe strike that In Involves In In- valves tho the use uso of oC slugging the he interruption interruption inter inter- of or general business s the rendering ren ron dering of streets cots unsafe for the populace populace lace ace will wi not gain al any substantial benefit for COl the tho union nor for rOI the tho laboring laboring laborins lab lab- oring man maim no matter what his ions tons ma may be bc And this trial ti-mi of the chief advocate of or orce oice In settling I labor disputes should result resul In Iii severe punishment of oC the man unan who made war Avar Avaron on the people of ot an au American city No o man bo be permitted to tie le up the lie trade tado of any town And certainly ably no man mann so 0 cever cleverly In Inthe Inthe Inthe the market mai and for fOI sale salo to tho the highest hest bidder as was vas Shea |