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in Austria terminated with a complete attainment of the ends. this strike had been inaugurated for.

Where did this remarkable method of "passive resistance" originate? In 1887 an accident occurred on an Austrial railway. In moving freight trains it happened that a railway employe was caught between the cars and he was badly mutilated. The high officials disciplined the station master, and they pointed to the fact that such accidents could not happen if all rules and regulations were strictly enforced. Forthwith a telegraph order was dispatehed to all station masters to enforce most rigidly all regulations provided for by law. Non-compliance with the mandates of the high officials meant immediate discharge. For many days and nights the masters of the crossroad stations and their subordinates were on the lookout to see that not one of the rules was violated, The consequences were startling. Three days after the issuance of that order the important station where the accident had happened was so blockaded with passenger trains, switch engines and freight cars that all traffic from all directions was practically suspended. All station masters could prove when called upon to give an account of this chaos that they had just obeyed the instructions and