JOSEPH J. ETTOR, having finished his work of getting the waiters' strike under way in New York, has gone to Chicago to start a waiters' strike there. When Boston or Philadelphia or San Francisco needs his services, no doubt he will take the first train to the scene, and lend his aid to the cause with equal zeal and energy. This must be an agreeable and congenial occupation for Ettor and the rest of the I. W. W. leaders. To set a strike in motion, to spur discontented waiters or workmen on to action, to have all the fun of the tumult and shouting, the rhetoric and red fire and waving banners, and then to hark away to pastures new,—this must be the very cream of strike leadership. But what of the rank and file who are left behind to bear the brunt of the fight? What of the waiters who see their small savings dwindle, their jobs lost, or who, even if successful, gain their point at the cost of great individual suffering? They are not indulging in Pullman cars and trips across the country. Theirs is the seamy side of a “direct-action” industrial war, and not so pleasing to contemplate. In ordinary warfare, generals stay by their forces and see the campaign out. The I. W. W. leaders have improved on these methods. Their idea seems to be that their obligations end with the successful inauguration of the fight. It is left to the men in the ranks to carry on the campaign with what fortune they may.—The Thrice-a-Week-World.