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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 . 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 .