Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-08-16
WHAT EDITORS SAY
OF RAILWAY ISSUE
Demand Peaceful Settlement Of
Wage Controversy. b..
STRIKE MUST BE AvERTED.

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That Wage Question Be Settled by
| Interstate Commerce Commission or
by Arbitration Under the Nswiands
| Law.
Chicago.-The proposed strike by all
railway train service employees in or
der to secure wage increase of $780,.
100000 a year is condemned by news
paper editors throughout the county.
They declare such a strike would be
u public calamity and that it must be
averted. .
Almost unanimously the editors in,
dorse the proposals made by the com.
mittee Of railway managers to the
leaders of the brotherhoods- the
wage question be settled by the inter.
state commerce commission or by ar.
bitration under the Newlands law.
The following extracts from news
paper editorials fairly reflect public
sentiment on this most important is
sue: .
The interstate commerce commits.
sion should be empowered to prevent
this threatened railroad strike. Write
to your congressman about it--Chicago
Tribune. --.-...
The great public has more ut stake
than either the railway stockholders
or the railway employees.-Davenport
Ga.) Times.
The interstate commerce commits
sion represents the great public. It
was created for the purpose of holding
even the scales.-Rocky Mountain
News, Denver
The trainmen should take prudent
thought. Arbitration Is their wise pol.
icy.-Detroit Free Press.
The public will support any finding
the interstate commerce commission
may make.-Dallas CTex.) News.
Public opinion ought to have re-en-
forced the position Of the railroads
long before now.-Galveston News
The regulation Of wages presents no
more difficulties than the regulation of
rates.-Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript.
The interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible If it
permitted a strike to 'come.-Minneap-
oils Journal.
The train crew unions have no case
which they are willing to try in a
court Of arbitration or in the great
court Of public opinion.--New York
Commercial
The controversy Is not between the
railways and their employees, but be-
tween the public and the railway en-
ployees.-New York Globe.
The men now seem to show rather
consciousness of the weakness of their
position than reliance upon its merits
New York, Times. slRa s Ass
The Interstate commerce. commission
cannot avoid regulating. wages so long
as it regulates rates.--New York Trib-
une. say tg y. a,."
q The, railroad brotherhoods are mis7;j
taken. There IS something to arbi-
trate.-New York World.
The railway employees are plainly in
the wrong and should sense their mis-
take before they make worse blum.
der.-Oshkosh CNis.) Northwestern.
Neither side could afford to take the
position Of demanding more than the
interstate commerce commission would
approve.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The railroad employees are not sui.
fering such intolerable wrongs that
they cannot await the result Of arbi.
tration.-Portland Oregonian.
The greatness Of the power for which
the labor leaders are seeking Is the 4
very strongest argument why they \
should not have it.-Railway Age Ga.
zette.
The public is as vitality interested in
the situation as the railways or the
employees Louis Globe Democrat
Either the railroads are wrong or
their employees are. Any just cause
will stand investigation. = jackson
MISSY Clarion Ledger.
This Is the time when every Amer1-
can who loves his country should set
aside his own schemes Of aggrandize-
ment-Kansas City Journal
The United States government can
not permit any strike that would tie
up all the railroads Of the country
LeSueS weekly. T'e.tN
It Is just as true that organized labor
may Cypress the public intolerably as
that organized capital may do It.
Lowell (Mass.) Citizen.
Those who would suffer most from
a tying up of the nations traffic would
get no vote on the question Of q strike.
Lincoln (Neb) Star.
One thing is certain, the railroads.
the railroad employees and the Ameri.
can people cannot afford such q strike
Memphis Appeal
We think the brotherhoods' are max.
ing a mistake in refusing arbitration.
Capital must get its living wage as we'll
as labor.-Milwaukee Free Press.
Business can hobble along under high
freight rates. Death would follow
general railred strike-Paton Rouge
H.aJ Times.
The American people do not believe
there Is any difference between the
roads and the employees that cannot be
adjusted Observation-Disclosures OILY
Paragraph.
The railroads have accepted the per
fectly reasonable and natural sugges-
ton that the wage question be settled
by arbitradon.-Boston Journal.
Why should vote be taken on a
strike which the public will never tol
erate?-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.