The TRUSTS compared to Labor UNIONS are the pirate ships compared to honest ships of commerce.
FRANCE HAS LEARNED HER LESSON
The employes on the Paris underground railroad had a strike and have settled their strike.
The terms of the settlement amaze the outside world. The terms are especially amazing to the American—and well they may be.
The employes of the underground railroad in Paris are GOVERNMENT employes.
Their strike inconvenienced the public, and even the radical
French people were annoyed with the strikers.
In other European countries and in this country, as the news reports very truly say, the strike of those Government employes would have been dealt with very summarily. Three engines of civilization would have been brought into play effectively.
"First the police, second the cavalry, third Gatling guns." ——
But the police, the cavalry and guns were tried on the French people long ago, and that little matter was fought out and settled. The men who govern France know that at a certain stage in the proceedings a courageous people will not stand Gatling guns, cavalry or police. They have found out in France that the way to deal with striking workmen is just the way the Government official would like to be dealt with himself if he were a striking workman instead of a well-paid public officer.
The striking men complained that their day's work was too long and their pay too small. The pay was increased and the day shortened—which was perfectly right.