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Show TWO PER CENT VERSUS NINETY-EIGHT , There are laws against th holdup man and against holding up bonks but (hero is no law against a lnm! ful of radicals holding up a v'luile community and causing loss of property pro-perty nnd Injury to business. In the recent strike in soutrein California that Is what happened. Tho 98 per cont were Isolated, prevented pre-vented from following tholr legitimate legitim-ate business and trnlnloads or fiult and food spoiled. Farmcts, canneries, fruit pai.K'lng houses Knd laborors woio compe'led to suffer losses through no fault of tholr own, and had not the government govern-ment ended tho holdup, greater suffering suf-fering would havo reaultedv. Nluoty-olght per cent of tho people had nothing to do with tho itrlke or the cnuses leading up to I', :f theio were any, ns thoy had no voice In tho affalis of tho utilities cunpan I ies affected. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Com-merce has inaugurated u national movement designed to present a re-pltltlon re-pltltlon or such disastrous situations In the tuture as were brought !r.t,l by reckless agitators. Many or tho strlkors In Calyl'om.'a, Nevada and Arizona who tried In completely paralyze tho Industries and production powers of thos.) ftr.tis .belonged to tho railroad brotmT-hoods. brotmT-hoods. They had contracts with the federal fed-eral railway administration wJiJo'i they violated and even Ignored the ordeiH.of their own national officials in, their repudiation of nntlonal agree ments. Sucli 111 timed nnd mslnterosting radicalism reacts against thoso who resort to It, for ours Is n nation of law nnd order, and there is neo-l of national laws to prevent rccurrcnco of such acts. |