Such actions are inevitable in the early stages of combination on the part of uneducated men, feeling a new sense of power, and striking blindly out in angry retaliation for real or fancied injuries.
Trades-unions are gradually, however, outgrowing their crude methods.

The attempts, such as we have seen lately, of great corporations to break them up, is a piece of despotism which ought to receive an indignant rebuke from the people at large.

Labor must combine, just as capital has combined, in forming these very corporations.

Labor's only way of defending its interests as a class is through combination.

It is the abuse and not the use of trades-unions against which resistance should be made.
The chief abuse of our trades-unions has been their concentration of attention upon the organization of strikes.
Strikes seem to me in our present stage of the "free-contract" system entirely justifiable when they are really necessary.