Show THE RAILROAD STRIKE on july first in response to the of national officers some thing like four hundred thousand rail arwid employees clayed down their tools lind joined the ranks of the unemployed without regarding repard lne the merits or demerits of f tho the strike the independent I 1 deplores the neves necessity sity for such atlon altion nt this tinte time to begin with of these employees have bon b on out of employment for it long ions period of if time and it hit hns been only athin viti liln the ithe last few abat conditions have so improved that permit ted their employment utah lifts been buird lilt hit for the last few years unlike ninny of the eastern or fur far western in I n this state but little ns as it result of the war then came tw fix depression and with it the alie of r the mines min es and smelters shelters sm elters which reduced the pay roll of the a t e b by y nit ait least three million dollars per month uhe wool man was hard kinrd lilt hit the sit gar pair industry suffered a staggering blow and business was nt at a complete the railroad slop shop ily 11 employ about 2 2500 men in the state representing it pay roll of per day or per month while the strike is on there w will ill result therefore to n loss of more than fi a quarter of a million dollars elnra per month to say aay nothing of the suffer ilig in entailed by the mm m m the ile fault Is not altogether that of the employees nor of capital hut a combination of the two the independent believes the time has haa conae camie for the level heads of both sides to strike a middle road capital cannot exist without labor nor can labor control the destinies 0 abe american people the loi il iby bi the men directly involved nor of the corporations which employ emm the biem m but iby by every ninn man woman wants and child living it Is the office of the government to protect all classes of people and to that end some functioning power should bel bd created with this the authority to safeguard the 1111 notion tion tibe the coal operal tors have refused to ion con eider alder the demands of the workers worker sad and the result tsa la a complete deadlock dd lock this condition should not he be tolerated there Is a broad highway that all dan ban travel if they will and the american public llouel llo ull compel its ita creation tor for by so BO doing can wa ve only ext expect to maintain our unity as a nation |