When individual firms are competing the injustice of one firm may
be punished and controlled by a strike.
THE TRUST WILL RENDER THE STRIKE LAUGHABLE AND USELESS.
Suppose all the shops or manufactories of a certain kind to be
under the control of one trust. What good will a strike do? The
concern in which the strike occurs will simply stop work. Its
business will go to other concerns in the trust; the firm in
which the strike occurs will calmly draw its share of the trust
profits and laugh at the strikers. The latter will lose their
wages and time--no one else will lose anything.
What does one paper mill care for a strike if all the other mills
in the Paper Trust are running, and making the money which it
nominally loses? ----
Perhaps the workingmen think they can stop ALL the manufactures
of a certain kind. In the first place they probably cannot--with
trusts that reach across 3,000 miles of country.
And if they could, what about the TRUST OF TRUSTS?
If the trusts are not already formed into a formal union for
mutual support they soon will be. And the union of trusts
already exists so far as practical sympathy goes.
Havemeyer will gladly spend millions of trust money--not his
own--to help Morgan in a coal-trust fight.
Rockefeller will spare a few hundred thousand if necessary to buy
a small State Legislature and prevent passage of laws threatening
a weak little trust now and dangerous to him in the long run.
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