Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13

legal redress would have been the
merest child's play.
And remember, the lawmaking
bodies of the land, in such abritra-
ton acts, recognizing, we say, the
Impractical ility of resorting to the
ordinary forms of litigation, have
themselves provided a more effec-
tive method.
These striking Georgia Railroad
employees promptly offered to sub
nit the justice of their claims TO
the Federal Board OF Arbitration,
and for months the railroad refused
to agree thereto. Therefore, by
every token of law and logic, 1t
was the Georgia Railroad which
fiouted the only effective tribunal
set up by the lawmakers, and not
the men.
Railroad Acted Anarchist.
According to Governor Browns
reasoning, 1t was the railroad which
acted the anarchist by refusing to
place itself under the impartial ar
bitration of Government officials;
and ii was the railroad which was
responsible for the continuation of
the strike.
Therefore, what becomes of all
the Governors hectoring and de-
nunciation of the striking en-
ployees2 Indeed, obsessed with his
crazy desire to subvert the civil
authorities with the military, he I'M
blushingly declares that III such an
emergency comes again during this
administration, the State VIII not
await the slow process Of arbitra-
ton, but viii promptly meet the
issue rendered her, and enforce her
laws"
The Governor does not know that
labor organizations have obtained
better wages for their members.
and as a corollary, for non union
laborers as WELL for he bitterly
but disingenuously rails at them
therefore. In reprehensible fashion
he tries TO arouse the preiudices of
the farmers against the urban
working men and women.
Does not this would be protago-
mist of the farmers know that the
farmers themselves have formed
splendid unions to help get just pay
for their labor in better and fair
er prices for their farm products?
As We have said before. these
railroad men risk their lives with
every turn OF the wheels. They are
charged with heavy responsibilities
of human life, and with the safe
keeping and conduct of millions of
dollars of the property of their en-
ployers, and they do not receive
more than they are entitled to, and
this contention of the Governor is
utter claptrap. grossly unjust, Who'll
ly stupid, ana made, we are forced
TO believe, TO get the farmers vote.
The Governor. being of archaic
mental makeup, enormously con-
Ceives that by reason of occasional
strike disturbances (and strikes are
mighty rare in Georgia) there is a
lot of prejudice in the minds of
some people against labor unions,
and SO having alienated the labor
unionists and thinking that there
were only $4,000 possible antagonis-
tic votes as against $4,000 other
votes in the State Though he may
find his figures grossly in error so
far as the number of union labor
erS is concerned, there being, in
point Of fact more than five times
as many labor union men than his
guess would indicated, he conceiYes
the occasion Of the military ban
qSet. ana the subject of the Geor-
gia railroad strike, a fitting time
and place 10 make a grandStand as
sault upon organized labor, and tell
270000 farmers that they were be-
ing grievously outraged because
they did not earn as much money