Many of the older workmen present who have worked with me in the rolling mills know what the word “strike” means. In those old days we used to close the mills, throw out pickets, guard the railway depots and lay in a good supply of intoxicating spirits, thus priming for mischief and depredations of any sort. If persons thinking other than we did came to take our positions they were beaten and sent out of town. We do differently now. It would be interesting to know just when strikers began to do differently. Such words as these by the President of the Amalgamated Association would be far more impressive if spoken at the end instead of the beginning of the strike. Let us hope that they can be spoken then.—Courier-Journal. * * * * * The Steel Strike and the Future of American Industry. The strike ordered by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers for the purpose of coercing three of the companies embraced in the United States Steel Corporation will be regarded with keen interest by all persons acquainted with the grounds on which the manufacturers of the United States are able to compete with those of Great Britain and other European countries. We do but state the naked truth when we say that, if this strike should prove successful, our employers of skilled labor would be gradually subjected to disabilities which, ultimately, would put an end to the hope of competition with their transatlantic rivals in the markets of the world.