Show THE LOSS FROM STRIKES labor disturbances cost an immense amount of money the statistics on this subject show a R loss to the country from strikes that Is simply appalling we who are so familiar with the word strike that wo io scarcely give it a second glance while reading our papers have not ane slightest conception of the vast amount of money that has been lost through labor disturbances available figures show that in the twenty years between 1881 and 1900 there were strikes which cost the country in wages expenses and direct loss of trade the enormous sum of during the same period there were 1005 lockouts costing making a total of here Is a loss of almost halt a billion dollars figured from three items only that Is loss of wages assistance or money advanced to strikers by their sympathize s and loss to employers pl it would be a fair computation to estimate an equal sum lost di erectly and indirectly lo 10 1 the general public because of the strikes total one billion dollars in twenty years I 1 womans home companion |