Labor Strikes and Their Leaders
It is estimated by some statisticians that the steel combination lost $15,000,000 by the recent great strike, and that the strikers’ loss was $10,000,000. But the trust has means by which it can make up its loss in a short time, while the strikers must go on losing; for the conditions of labor are not as favorable to them as before the strike. As to the late industrial strike in San Francisco, a good many union men have learned, what they all ought to have known all the time, that they were only the tools of leaders who are aiming for self-advantage under the pretext of interest for the laboring classes. When a body of laboring men put themselves under the absolute dictation of those who have no interest in the work they are doing, they must expect to become the subjects of barter on the part of their chosen dictators.