A strike is the refusal of an organized body of workmen to continue their work except on certain wrong and some peoe denounce strikes as always wrong and foolish and even say they should be forbidden by law and put down byforce. 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 modem industrial systems. They came into fashion with the present age ofachinery and large factories. Before workmen had learned thesecret of combination, they were at the merey of their rich and powerful employers who kept wages low and forced them to work long hours. They could do this because each individual workmen, poor and ignorant was no match for a rich and influential emplover. It he did not agree to the employer hard terms he could be dismissed for there were dozens ready to take his place. He must submit and they banded themselves into organized societies called trades unions. Formerly when a single workmen demanded higher wegas he was promptly kicked out but when all the workmen in a factory struck in a body, or refused to work,
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