Show DEPEND ON THE STRIKE explains to edeland through the times HI on the strike it the request of that paper has favored the with the following statement by cabla as to the causes and labor troubles tron blES in the united states the times granted the associated correspondent 1181 to cable the luter lew to the united diate depew baye the labor in tle united amatea are due to the long continual industrial depression and the strike wa caused hy mhd albillo ambillo is efort of debs president of alii american railway union to absorb all labor of railway employed into one the success of ahls ir disorder and the delay in 4 were owing to the heretofore undefined h boundary between state and federal aul in the depressed financial and indas i trial situation the populist party found its opportunity or rather the situation created the party the idea which its memi hers gather from its teachings Is that liberty means the right to violate law end stop or seize railroads and industries the law breakers are poor and are sufficiently strong to defeat or overawe the ordinary peace and establishment of a community in the states where this party is in power strikes lockouts boycotts and aslon of railway traffic received direct assistance or passive per from the authorities mr deba was for many years a high and popular official of the brotherhood of locomotive firemen and the editor of a labor magazine of advanced socialistic and somewhat anarchist views lie conceived the idea of breaking up the existing organizations izat ions and the railway world into his order hie scheme was attractive the order was to control the railway and coerce their managers debs made bis first appeal to the switchmen and selected the areat northern for bis attack this line had been built paralleling the northern pacific and had forced the latter into bankruptcy and could not afford a tie up after a few days the manager of the line surrendered debs victory himself by ita completeness end far reaching consequences quen ces east of chicago and in the oldest and thickly settled states the eld bione tione stood firm him II 11 must again demonstrate his power finding no grievance on the railway hi tight upon the trouble between the pullman oar company and the in its shops over the construction of some hundreds of freight cars for various railways debs ordered a boycott of the pullman cars and on the refusal of the railways to break their contracts wita the pullman company and inflict nameless cruelties upon their passengers he ordered their lines closed the strike reached its ridiculous stage when the governor of california requested a permit from the strike leader to visit his capital which was contemptuously refused after president proc laroa alon it required a few asye for the general public and the strike leaders to grasp the idea that the president was in earnest and the army and navy in motion when this conspiracy collao ted as suddenly af it wa organized the 1 occasioned by the strike are enormous but it is destined to prove of great to the country the national idea has been strength ened and broadened safe anchorage will be found for persons and property one of the hopeful features of the situation has been the unmistakable display of loyalty in the south tle so called rebel states unanimously demanded intervention of the federal power to restore order before everything else j |