The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-08-17

interstate Comm0TCo So"U'Sslon OF
by Arbitration Under the Newlands
Law.
Chicago-The proposed strike by all
railway train service employees In or
Ger to secure a wage increase Of $780,.
700. 600 n year is condemned by news.
paper editors throughout the country.
They declare such a strike would be
a 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.-Davenpo
Qa) 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. BE-
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.-Holyoke tMass.) Transcript
The interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible II II
permitted n strike to come.-Minneap
oils Journal.
The train crew unions have no case
u
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 nre mis-
taken. There IS something to arb!.
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 (wis.) 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
,ery 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 OF
their employees are. Any just cause
will stand investigation. - Jackson
MISSY Clarion Ledger.
This Is the time when every Ameri
can who loves his country should SCI
aside his own schemes OF aggrandize
ment.--Kansas City Journal.
The United States government can
not permit any strike that would III
up all the railroads OF the country
Leslie's Weekly.
II is just as true that organized labo,
may Cypress the public intolerably Al
that organized capital may do It
Lowell (Mass) Citizen.
Those who would suffer most from
tying up OF the nations traffic woult
get no vote on the question Of strike
Lincoln (Neb.) Star.
One thing II certain. the railroads
the railroad employees and the Ameri
can people cannot afford such a strike
Memphis Appeal
We think the brotherhoods nre max
ing a mistake In refusing arbitration
Capital must get Its living wage as wei
as labor.-Milwaukee Free Press
Business can hobble along under higi
freight rates. Death would follow I
general railroad strike.-BatOn Roug,
Ual Timcs
The American people do not believ,
there Is any difference between tn,
roads and the employees that cannot b,
adjusted Observation-Disclosures III,
Paragraph.
The railroads hive accented the per