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Show TALKS OF STRIKES. - The engineers on the western roads are now taking a strike-vote strike-vote for the purpose of authorizing their leaders to declare a strike, if the heads of the big railroads persist in refusing their demands for increased wages. It would be a most disastrous clarh. the strik of the army of engineers, as business of every description would suffer. These threatened industrial upsets rwiud us that tHs country is far behind New Zealand and other countries where compulsory arbitration makes strikes impcs'ble. The rights of labor should be so well d-fird in law tlt an cm-ployer cm-ployer could not escape fairly compensating his employes, and, on the other hand, employers should be given ample protection against unreasonable demands. This country is gradually working out these great economic and industrial questions, but the progress is extremely slow and, at times, unpromising, yet there is reason to hope that, at a not very distant time, a most satisfactory solution will be reached. |