Workingmen have the right to combine in affixing a price at which they wish to work.

The supply of labor and the demand for goods, in the absence of higher considerations, will settle the question as to whether they can get the increase.

The trying features of this method of reaching a result are incidental to our immature industrial system.

Strikes have had their part to play in the development of that system.

We note their failures and forget their successes; but they have had their signal success, and have won substantial advantages for labor.
Their chief service, however, has been in teaching combination, and in showing labor the need of a better weapon by which to act than the strike itself.
The strike requires long practice and great skill to wield it well.