Word: striking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...argued further that the right of the employer to buy his material where he might please has been disregarded by the unions, as has also his right to possess his property in safety and to use it in a legitimate way. Reference was made to the Homestead strike, and to the Pullman strike as evidence of the violation of this right...
Weldy, the second speaker on the negative, denied that trade-unionism has shown the general tendency alleged by the previous speaker. The non-union man is the small minority in the unionized trades, and has been injured in times of strike only. This injury to the minority has been necessary for the welfare of the greater majority, but even such injury has been transient and intermittent. Trade unionism strives to secure for the working man his natural rights; to deny these by peaceable evolution--the method employed by unionism--would mean their attainment by violent revolution. The working man loves...
...Modern conditions of employment have in many instances tended to this result. But trade-unionism has in fact gained for all working men a larger and more real freedom, truer self ownership than they could possibly have had without organization. Examples of conditions before and after the recent coal strike were cited. With increased means and leisure the working man has become a better man and a better citizen. In his elevation the entire country has been benefited...
Time after time has the boycott and the strike been persistently prosecuted, resulting in enforced idleness to thousands and in the absolute cessation of business. They have ignored the courts; have shown hostility to the government itself; they place their own interest above those of the whole country, and would make allegiance to the unions paramount to any other duty which men may owe to any organization--social, religious, political...
...Gold Strike on Dutch Creek," and "Glotto's Crisis," are the remaining stories. The latter has bits of excellent description...