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Show uu LABOR PAPER IS AGAINST STRIKE Under the heading "It's Not Worth the Price," tho Western Laborer, published pub-lished at Omaha. Neb , has the following follow-ing to say regarding recent strike talk: Like a flash of lightning from a clear sky was tho sensational railroad rail-road strike talk In tho newspapers uuring tho last ten days. It may Just be newspaper talk and It may really bo serious. Wo don't know, but on 'the theory that it is serious we propose to havo our say The only strike tho Western Laborer Labor-er ever advocated was the Union Pacific Pa-cific shop strike against the introduction introduc-tion of the piece system under. President Presi-dent Horace G Burt Just nine years ago. It was a fight of tho shopmen, backed with the financial assistance of the business men, the utmost sympathy sym-pathy of all trades unions, office men, trainmen, the nowspapers and tho public of tho west against Burt and the directors In. New York. The strike leasted eleven months, the piece system sys-tem was abandoned and the unfortunately unfortu-nately constituted Mr. Burt passed out of the western railroad world. Mr Burt was succeeded by the present head of tho Union Pacific, Mr. Mohler, and the Instant he got on the Job the slate was wiped clean of all old sores and grievances against tho men who wero leadors of the strike and everybody started In fresh, new and clean, from Barreclough to Richelieu, Rich-elieu, to build up the bid Union Pacific Pacif-ic to what It is today. News Unexpected. Now the newspapers announce that the shopmen on the Harriman system are to go on strike and a list of grievances is printed as Justification for a strike. This unexpected strike hews has been so sudden .that we had to pinch ourselves to make sure it was not a dream. Tho Western " Laborer docs not reach tho homes of tho thousands cf Union Pacific shopmen from the Missouri to the coast. We never wished it did so hiuch as we do this week. Wo want to help the shopmen and their wives to tdo some serious thinking right nowl. We have read the list of grievances as published In tho dally papers which I are presumed to have been submitted to the officials of tho roa'd, and we want to say that we would notsacri-fice notsacri-fice the situation of one bhopman to obtain the whole mess from the, company, com-pany, except tho demand for an In-creaso In-creaso of 7 per cent Wo have seen so much suffering from strikes that' we have, a holy horror hor-ror at the approach of one. The last strike of thq Union Pacific shopmen will be as peaches and cream compared com-pared with the one that Is threatened, should It take place. Nino years f'o the men had a good cause. They wore fishing for a princlplo, They were unanimous against the introduction, of the piece system. They had the moral rnd financial fin-ancial support of tbej public That is why they wop. If" sounds llko a dream, when wo recall it, hijc If ia a fact that the host business meri of Omaha contributed con-tributed cash from month to month to aid the strlkons in 1U02-3. The union men of Omaha to a greater extent than ovor before kriown contributed a weekly asVssment of 3 0 cents per member during; all tb,ose long, weary eleven months of strife for the sup- port of the strikers and their families. The nowspapers gave the men tho best support ever given to a strike in Omaha. Everything fell Into tho laps of ihcr strikers and all the bad luck was plied onto the broad shoulders of the misguided" Horace G. Burt. Says Roard Is Fair. Today everything In, around and about Omaha Is shaped in favor of A L Mohler's side. The business men will not contribute one "cent to aid the shopmen in case of a strike The union mea of the west have been assessed to death to aid the countless strikes of the last eight years. The manageme'nt of the road has been so fair and generous that the men in tho train service cannot be counted iu sympathy with the shopmen's strike. Why, oven the shopmen themselves cannot work themselves up into a mood to speak harshly of the management. man-agement. The newspapers of Oraa"ha aro today as friendly to the shopmen as they were nine years ago and they are pleading with the men to keep out of a strike and hold onto their Jobs. The Western Laborer also wishes to lend whatever influence it has to plead with the old guard who went through the awful struggle of nine years ago Wo urge them to get Into the breach todav and do all their might to prevent the striking of even one man on tho Union Pacific road. Don't let It get started airywboro on the system Keep "cool. Talk the matter over at thw Bupper table with tho family v Don't let tho Union Pa-ciflc Pa-ciflc road be nonunlonlzed. It pays the best wages of any railroad In the west. Do this for the wives and babies ba-bies and for tho union. |