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Show COERCION POLICIES DECLINING In pplto of Comport) upholding tho right of organized labor to strike, coercion policies of settling industrial indus-trial disputes aro declining. Tako tho outlaw railroad strll:r. that caused losses of millions to Industrie's In-dustrie's and omployes, It was based on grlovanco of a Chicago iwtfli-man. iwtfli-man. The lnjustlco clalmod to huvn been done to ono laboror was mado Cho excuso for laying off thourauds, for rioting and holding up cars by tho thousands. Coal mines and factories In tho cast wcro compelled to shut down and Innocent families by thousands suffered from being thrown out of jobs. Coercion demands, threats to strike backed 'by action In which Individual In-dividual rights nro overthrown belong be-long to the dark ages of autocracy and force. |