The Oroville Weekly Gazette

Last week the street car men of Chicago met and voted in favor of a strike because a fair arbitration committee that granted a stiff advance in wage, did not make that advance still stiffer. Had the strike been finally carried out, and it was only averted by a referendum vote among the trainmen, and even then by a narrow margin, the entire street transportation system of the great city of Chicago would have been tied up, working a very serious hardship upon the general public. One member of the union present at the meeting voting the strike, more considerate of the rights and comfort of that worm known as the public, always the chief sufferer when strikes are inaugurated, protested against the proposed action on account of the great inconvenience it would work upon the public. Radicals in the crowd shouted "the public be damned" and a strong element cheered this openly expressed sentiment. It is just this anarchistic tendency among radicals in the ranks of unions, radicals who force themselves to the front as leaders, that is bringing the unions into disrepute with the public, and weakening that sympathy that the public once entertained for those organizations. If the public has no rights that the unions will respect it is about time for the public to go on a strike against unionism, and continue on a strike until radical dictators of those organizations are eliminated.