Show THE COST OF STRIKES the chicago inter ocean has estimated the cost of the late et rikes it conjectures working people of ibe united state east of the rocky were out on strikes a few days since it is safe t say that the of these working people are the daily support of people when those dependent upon the strikers are taken into consideration calling the average d lily wages earned by these people when employed emy loyed which ii certainly a low estimate and tho I 1 loss to the laborers by their en forced and organized idleness is very nearly a month this is an immense loss and must produce great distress and suffering in many households but this is not all the wheels of industry in one important branch cannot be stopped stopp cd without impeding in others and it is true that in many instances the wage workers who are indirectly affected by these labor troubles arc greater iu nu iu bor than choso who are the active participants in them the number of men who desire to work and have no grievances against their employers thrown out of employment ia st louis kansas city and othar points along the lines of the railroads affected by the is per haps many times greater than the number counted among the strikers thua are the buffering homes pot too abundantly supplied before multiplied Is it any wonder that master workman powderly and chief arthur deprecate strikes and boycotts unless positively necessary to secure just treatment at the hands of employers it is impossible to see how thia great loss to the wage workers is ever to be regained even ii thay gain their object and coipel the corporations to accept their terms there will be no one to pay tho wages that might have been earned but were not everything it is true can not have ita value measured in m oney but great as is the satisfaction the knights of labor may feel over a victory the suffering in the pinched homes will have made a mark that will be remembered in the future that is not all though the most pathetic feature of a great strike beyond the laborers wages there is great loss to the business of the country the extent of this loss is incalculable it doubtless will amount to millions of dollars every month during which the strike continues in fact the striking workmen and their employers are but a small portion of the people alio suffer by reason of their disagreement the situation has made business men think more seriously than for many a day to have these troubles come just when business was beginning to recover from the depression of four yeara has startled many men in all branches of trade and in all departments of trade and they are asking what of the future |