LABOR: General Strikeout

Forty-eight hours after 48 unions had called it early last week, a general strike in Terre Haute was ended by the American Federation of Labor. As a show of Labor strength it had been a spectacular success—vastly inconveniencing the 66,000 residents of that Indiana manufacturing & mining centre by cutting off food supplies, stopping streetcars, taxis and trucks, closing stores and filling stations, bringing the city under martial law and causing a few brushes between guardsmen and strikers. But as an effective effort to achieve Labor’s ends it had proved, like San Francisco’s general strike last year and Seattle’s in 1919, a strikeout. Still” on hand when it was over were the 58 armed company guards whose injection into a strike at a local enamel plant had led to the general walkout.