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Commendable altruism was shown by the Hazleton
carpenters who after striking for three weeks
for an unjust demand decided to return to work
" in order that the miners need not be idle." This
kind of altruism is sometimes called "fraternal
interest," sometimes "deference to public sentiment,"
and sometimes plain "horse sense," which
amounts in the end to knowing when either an
individual or a body of them is "thoroughly
licked."
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The growing practice on the part of miners in
certain districts, of sending out dirty coal, is one
that the mine owner cannot afford to overlook.
The quibbling over this point on the part of the
mine workers' leaders, so much in evidence at
several places, deserves a sharp check. It is not
only a reflection on the honesty of the workmen
and the intelligence of their officers, but is likely at
any time to bring into question the integrity of
the operators who are responsible for their product.
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The idiotic course pursued by the New York
subway employes in forcing the hand of one of
the best friends the workingman ever had, is one
of the hardest blows the cause of labor has sustained
in many a day. 'i'he almost insane greed
and persistency shown by tne strikers was such
as to convince the average person that organized
labor did not inspire the thought that .