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WHAT EDITORS SAY
OF RAILWAY ISSUE
Demand Peaceful Settlement oi
Wage Controversy.
STRIKE MUST BE AvERTED.

timost 0hanimoeey NswsPePv W.
dorss Proposals Of Railway Managers
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 a wage increase Of $780,.
100000 a year Is condemned by news
paper editors throughout the country.
They declare such a strike would be
q 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-that 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 at stake
than either the railway stockholders
or the railway employees.-Davenport
Qa.) Times.
The interstate commerce commits
sion represents the great public. 1t
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
ates-HOlyoke (Mass.) Transcript.
The interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible II II
permitted 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
J 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 9
: consciousness of the weakness Of theil
i. position than reliance upon it's merits
I New York Times.
|. The interstate commerce commission
o cannot avoid regulating wages 30 lonl
as It regulates rates.-New York Trib
/, une.
: The railroad brotherhoods are mis-
taken. There is something to arbi
! trate-New York World.
The railway employees are plainly fl
!, the wrong and should sense their mis-
- take before they make worse blum
der.-Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern.
Neither side could afford to take tn
position of demanding more than tn
:, interstate commerce commission woul'
& approve.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
,s The railroad employees are not sui
e fering such intolerable wrongs tina
!. they cannot await the result Of arb
h tration.-Portland Oregonian.
10 The greatness Of the power for whic
e the labor leaders are seeking is th
~ very strongest argument why the
should not have it.-Railway Age CT
!. - zette.
n The public is as vitality interested |
" the situation as the railways or th
I'd employees.-St. Louis be-Democra
IN Either the railroads are wrong
+; their employees are. Any just caus
will stand investigation. - Jackso
IN (Miss) Clarion Ledger.
This is the time when every Amer
On can who loves his country should 8,
aside his own schemes Of aggrandiz
he ment.-Kansas City Journal.
r. The United States government ca
Is not permit any strike that would t
" I'D all the railroads of the country.
Leslie's Weekly.
It is Just as true that organized lab
may oppress the public intolerably
that organized capital may do It.
n Lowell (Mass.) Citizen.
On Those who would suffer most fro
t a tying up of the nations traffic wou
10 10 get no vote on the question Of strih
he Lincoln (Neb.) Star.
One thing Is certain, the railroad
llv the railroad employees and the Anne
lily can people cannot afford such strii
les Memphis Appeal.
nd We think the brotherhoods are ma
is' ing a mistake in refusing arbitratit
10 Capital must get its living wage as W
'e' as labor.-Milwaukee Free Press.
Business can hobble along under hi
Is freight rates. Death would follow
M snS general railroad strike.-Baton Rou
es Ua) Times.
m. The American people do not belle
ind there is any difference between
A roads and the employees that cannot
1as adjusted peaceably.-Bloomington q
az. Paragraph.
U ~" The railroads have accepted the p
in fectly reasonable and natural sugg
ton that the wage question be sett
by arbitration.-Boston Journal.
Why should vote be taken on
the strike which the public will never