The Strike Situation

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 34.

The Strike Situation

At this writing the strike troubles indicate no early settlement, either in the East or West. Negotiations between the Steel Trust and the men were abruptly broken off by Mr. Morgan, who offered to take the workmen back on the terms existing before the strike occurred, utterly receding from the concessions offered in the first conference. In San Francisco there seems to be no disposition to concede anything on either side. Really it is a sad condition of things, and many suffer who are not interested parties in either side. Looking at it from the employers’ side, one can not but feel that their claim to the right to run their own business is but just. Looking at it from the workingmen’s side, they feel that the unions must possess certain control over the businesses in which they are engaged, or they will be ground down in wages and hours increased. Selfishness is at the bottom of all the trouble. The Spirit of Christ alone can remedy these ills. That would lead the employer to look to the interest of his employes, and vice versa.