The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-09-01

Demand Peaceful Settlement of
Wage Controversy.
STRIKE MUST BE AVERTED.
Almost Unanimously Newspapers In
dorse Proposals of Railway Managers
That Wage Question Be Settled by
Interstate Commerce Commission or
by Arbitration Under the Newlands
Law.

| Law.
Chicago-The proposed strike by all
railway train service employees in or
der to secure a wage increase of $780,
100000 year is condemned by news
paper editors throughout the country.
They declare such strike would be
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-tha 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 (TeX.) 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.-Holyolle (Mass) Transcript
The interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible If It
| permitted strike to come.-NIinneap-
oils Journal.
The train crew unions have no case
which they are willing to try In
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 a
consciousness Of the weakness OF their
position than reliance upon its merits.
New York Times.
The interstate commerce commission
cannot avoid regulating wages so long
as 1t 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 i'm
the wrong and should sense their mis-
take before they make worse blum.
der-Oshkosh CWisD Northwestern.
Neither side could afford TO take the
| position of demanding more than the
| interstate commerce commission would
| pprOve.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The railroad employees are not suf-
| fering such intolerable wrongs that
' they cannot await the result Of arbi-
MISUNDERSTANDING Oregonian.
The greatness Of the power for which
the labor leaders are seeking is the
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.-St Louis Globe-Democrat
Either the railroads are wrong or
their employees are. Any just cause
will stand Investigation. - Jackson
! '(NIiss) Clarion-Ledger
This is the time when every Ameri-
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
Leslie's Weekly
1t 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
tying up of the nations traffic would
get no vote on the question OF a strike.
Lincoln (Neb) Star.
One thing is certain. the railroads,
the railroad employees and the Ameri-
can people cannot afford such a strike.
Memphis Appeal
We think the brotherhoods are max
! ing a mistake i'm refusing arbitration.
Capital must get its living wage as well
as labor.-Nlilwaukee Free Press.
Business can hobble along under high
freight rates. Death would follow a
general railroad strike.-Baton Rouge
| Oa) Times.
The American people do not believe
there is any difference between the
roads and the employees that cannot be
adjusted bly.-Bloomington GILL
Paragraph.
The railroads have accepted the per
fectly reasonable and natural sugges-
ton that the wage question be settled
| nv arbitro tiOn -RoSton Journal