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Show STRIKES AND SAVINGS. The New York Times reports a gain this year in the deposits of the savings banks of New York City of $71,000,000, and ascribes the mighty increase in-crease to the absence of strikes. Wage-earner3 everywhere should let that fact sink deeply in their minds. Strikes are sometimes necessary, but when they come, the first result is the stoppage of the daily wage, and the beginning of suffering. This, too, is felt-most by helpless women and children. The truth ought to inspire such legislation as will cause labor troubles to be setttled by courts of arbitration. ar-bitration. Civilized nations are held together by respect for law. On that society is founded. It is. then, an impeachment of the intelligence and |