Obstetricians have only to look at certain misshapen infants to know they cannot long survive. Specialists in labor troubles last week took one glance at San Francisco's general strike and turned their heads away, giving the verdict: "Not viable." Four days later San Francisco's monster-birth was dead.
Prime reason for its swift extinction was that it lacked the vital organs necessary to make a general strike succeed. It did not shut off the city's light, water, or food supplies. It did not silence the newspapers, throwing the city into a state of rumor-ridden ignorance...
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