A strike is the refusal of an organized body of workmen to continue their work except on certain wrong and some people denounce strikes as always wrong and put down by foten say they should be forbidden by law and put down by force. Such people know nothing of and history of strikes nor of the great benefit they have secured for the working classes.
Strikes are a natural result of our modern industrial system. They came into fashion with the present age of machinery and large factories. Before workmen had learned the secret of combination they were at the mercy of their rich and powerful employers who kept waves low and forced them to work long hours. They could do this because each individual employer. It he did not agree to the were employer hard termen employer. It he did not agree to the employee hard to take his place. He must submit or starve then the workmen learnt that unity was strength and they banded themselves into organized societies called trades unions Formerly when a single workmen demanded higher wages he was promptly kicked out but what all the workmen in a factory struch in a body or refused to work.
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