Show WHAT A STRIKE biriki COST obliged to divert money needed for improvements into f payments for police service I 1 L it will never bo be known defini definitely iely just what the recent strike ot of the I 1 teamsters cost the people of chicago that forbat the total would run well into the millions however la Is a conservative al vo estimate judging from the bonglo item k item ot of the expense to th the e municipality I 1 ty for extra police protection i some time ago it was discovered that at the city could add to its bonded debt and the people authorized zed an issue of bonds to this amount for specific public improvements cuts the end of the teamsters strike round found of these bonds still unsold and an emergency strike debt of bf some to pay this bill the council has retired the of onda and ordered their reissue in such form that they may bo be used for general corporate pur purposes thus or the tha estimated cost of lowering tho aho two river tun aels nels goes to pay extra policemen for defending tho the lives of citizens and protecting their property while a supine city practically gave license to the striking teamsters to make tho the ordinary business of peaceful citizens ull full of turmoil and hazard money that tho the people intended to zo 0 o into sorely needed permanent improvements prove brove ments has been diverted UP to the cost coat of lawlessness that neya should have gone to the extent it did p the cost of this one strike Is 1 the ii the city pays for extra police service ervice plus what the county has to pa pay y for special deputy sheriffs plus the loss to merchants railways manufacturers etc in business plus lost wages to the strikers plue a dozen ather ther items that it would lie bo difficult ito 10 lo enumerate and this only defill embraces braces money cost it takes no account of anci inconvenience to citizens of assaults on oa cit citizens liens of the killing of citizens 1 it Is a tremendously expensive thing to fight a labor war in a great city |