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A Strike (n.) would ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠still exert an immense influence on the development of industry even if it achieved nothing but making mechanical genius react against it.

A Strike (n.) by ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠workers is illegal not only by the Penal Code but by the economic system: each may dispose freely of his own hands, but combining to do violence to monopoly society cannot permit.

A Strike (n.) occasions ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠injury to the delicate moving parts of metallic mechanisms by inaction.

A Strike (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a periodic revolt of the working class against the autocracy of capital, and machinery is the most powerful weapon for suppressing it.

A Strike (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠taken as proof that workers are so depraved as to combine and idle a whole day, those fellows actually asking for a wage-increase.