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Show KEEP DOWN THE STRIKE SPIRIT, Thero are rumors of a railroad strike to occur soon after Juno 10, when engineers, firemen, conductors and brakemen are to quit work and tie up traffic on thousands of miles of railroad. rail-road. Tho brotherhoods may havo a just grievance, but for them to strike at thlB timejs to Invito a serious condition. condi-tion. With conspirators in all Industries operating by every conceivable means- to cause confusion and upsot business, busi-ness, and with scheming plotters promoting pro-moting discord by underhanded moth-oda, moth-oda, this is an hour for lovol-headed men to proceed with great caution. There must bo some way of reconciling recon-ciling tho differences between the men and tho railroads, before a strlko is resorted to, and tho government should be the Intervening party to require re-quire the two forces to come to an understanding, so that ono overt act may not lead to another and finally the country be thrown Into an uproar, -with anarchy's dreadful hand lifting above tho mob. Wo have confidence In tho class of men who are in the railroad brotherhoods, brother-hoods, and are not aiming to pgss judgment on tho real morit of their case against tho railroads, but we do say this is a most critical and inop-portune inop-portune timo In which to disrupt railroad rail-road traffic, sq essential to our plaris of military and Industrial preparedness. |