result of concessions
to us in this strike, and to that end we demand.

Second. That we be allowed to have a representative in the
offices of all concerns interested, said representative to have
access to all books and accounts, guaranteeing to labor such
increases in wages as shall be evidently just, allowing 8 per
cent. dividends on stock, the payment of interest on bonds, and
such sums for upkeep, maintenance, and repairs as shall not
include the creation of a surplus or fund for extensions.

Third, we demand that the companies concerned shall obey all
laws enacted by the state or nation to improve conditions of
industry until such laws have been passed upon by the supreme
courts of the state and of the United States.

Fourth, we demand that all negotiations between the employers
and the workers arising out of the demands shall be conducted on
behalf of the workers by the Trades Workers' Council of the
Wahoo Valley or their accredited representatives.

During this strike we promise to the public righteous peace;
after the strike we promise to the managers of the mines and
mills efficient labor, and to the workers always justice.

STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE

At two o'clock that June afternoon the whistle of the big engine in the
smelter in South Harvey, the whistle in the glass factory at Magnus, and
the siren in the cement mill at Foley blew, and gradually the wheels
stopped, the machines were covered, the fires drawn, the engines wiped
and covered with oil, and the men marched out of all the mills and mines
and shops in the district. There was no uproar, no rioting, but in an
hour all the garden patches in the Valley were black with men. The big
strike of the Wahoo Valley was on.

CHAPTER XLVI

WHEREIN GRANT ADAMS PREACHES PEACE AND LIDA BOWMAN SPEAKS HER MIND

A war, being an acute stage of discussion about the ownership of
property, is a war even though "the lead striker calls it a strike," and
even though he proposes to conduct the acute stage of the discussion on
high moral grounds. The gentleman who is being relieved of what he
considers at the moment his property, has no notion of giving it up
without a struggle, no matter how courteously he is addressed, nor upon
what exalted grounds the discussion is ranging. It is a world-old
mistake of the Have-nots to discount the value which the Haves put up