The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-10

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The action
of the District court at Des Moines
suggests the thought that arbitration
| can be made compulsory. That the
public, which always losses heavily
in any contest between employer and
employee, will applaud such method
of settling labor controversies is hard
ly to be doubted. Moreover, it ought
also be applauded by labor and capl-
tai. for strikes are, ninety-nine times
out OF one hundred, propositions in
| which both sides to the controversy
are heavy losers.
Marshalltown Times-Republican: It
is not In any sense victory for the
strikers. On the contrary, IL the order
shall be supported In law it Is vic
tory for the public and defeat for the
tyrannical assumption of either en-
ployes or employers engaged in bust
ness which affects public welfare that
may refuse such service and let the
public be id" If it is victory 1t is
flor the right side of the contention. If
the employee ris right in this case he
has thrown the responsibility of dealing
with the strike and the strikers upon
the public. II the company can be
mandamused to run its cars 1t certain
ly has the same recourse against strik-
ing unions and unionists. And this
brings the public into the case up to
the eyebrows. It is always up to the
eyebrows in strike.
Waterloo Reporter: There will be
universal approval of Judge De CRAFTS
action in ordering the street car COM
pany and its employees to at once end
the strike in Des Moines. Under this
precedent the people will no longer sit
supinely while public corporation
and its employees tear a town to
pieces and pile up insufferable ex.
penses for the commonwealth. There
are men and courts amply competent
to judge who is right and who is
wrong in every labor struggle, and
the people should insist that it be left
to them to decide the question
Atlantic News: Manager Harrigan
Of the Des Moines street car company
has written letter to Councilman
Roe of Des Moines, head of the public
safety bureau, in which he takes some
well warranted cracks at the council
man for the failure of the police de-
partment there to prevent the disor-
der and rioting which have marked
the strike thus far and tells him that
the duty of his department is not to-
do the best it can but that It's duty
is to see that order is preserved at any
cost. The letter, as published in The
Register and Leader of yesterday
morning is full of things he should be
told and should heed. The mob should
never be tolerated for an instant and
Des Moines police officers should be
removed If they fail to do their full
duty.
Davenport Times: 1t is an assump-
ton upon the part of the court that
there are ways of settling such diff
culties without mountaineering al
whole community and without throw
ing a tremendous expense upon the
taxpayers. II precedent has been es-
tablished it is believed 1t goes no far
Their than application to public ser
vice corporations, and with regard to
them, only as to the operation of the
service on which the community de-
ponds directly for its convenience. If!
any Injunction can be issued after Il
strike to compel the resumption OF
traffic on a street railway 1t will be