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Show I! BLOODSHED IN DENVER. . I Denver is the scene of rioting growing out of the street ear strike in that city The union nu n had been demanding higher pay and the streel Mir company had declared its mabiiit to meet th demands Finally Final-ly the men Went oul and immediately hotheads hrgan to get the iy-hole community inflamed As a result, men are being killed and much property destroyed This regrettable clash again brings up the question whether the Strike, except as an extreme resort, is the proper weapon for organ ir.cd labor in its struggle to better the condition of the workinl masses. The strike cannot be fr 1 from the suggest! 1 might and th rule of might invites violence. Whenever and wherever great wrongs are being perpetrated against the toilers of the land, there should he a remedy available other than that of mob hatred ami fury The gnnt leaders of unionism constantly arc counseling against radiealism and gradually they an- leading their followers away from the frenzy of the mob, but occasionally th re is nn outbreak in which the extremists usurp control and bring on riots such as an disgracing disgrac-ing Denver At times the union men are. goaded in to dupe.ratc OCtS by professional pro-fessional strike breakers, who arc made up of elements oi the unattached unat-tached population of the country, including thugs, When s crisis arises calling for strikebreakers the authorities should hot wait for the inevitable blows to be struck but should step m and command both sides to return to a sane hnsis of sottlinjr their different e. |