The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-23
WHAT EDITORS SAY
OF RAILWAY ISSUE
Demand Peaceful Settlement of
Wage Controversy.
STRIKE MUST BE AvERTED.

That Wage Question Be Settled by
Interstate Commerce Commission or
by Arbitration Under the NewIands
Law.
Chicago.-The proposed strike by all
railway train service employees in or.
der to secur a wage increase of 500.
100000 Il year Is condemned by news
paper editors throughout the country.
They declare such a strike would be
a public calamity and that II must be
ayerted.
Almost unanimously the editors In
dorse the proposals made by the com
mittee of railway managers TO the
leaders of the Observation-Disclosures 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 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
HaD 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
rates.-Holyoke tMass.) Transcript.
The Interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible If 1t
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 a
consciousness of the weakness OF their
position than reliance upon its merits
New York Times.
The interstate commerce commission
canno avoid regulating wages so long
as it regulates rates.-New York Trib-
une.
The railroad br~otherhoods are mis-
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 n worse blum.
der.-Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern.
Neither side could afford to take the
position Of demanding more than the
"a WYNN
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
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
e~mployees.-St- Louis Globe-D emocrat.
Either the railroads are wrong or
their employees are. Any just cause
win stand investigation. - Jackson
(Miss.) 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.
It is just as true that organized labor
may Cypress the public intolerably as
that organized capital may do it
Lowell CMass.) Citizen.
Those who would suffer most from
a tying up OF the nations traffic would
get no vote on the question of a strike
Lincoln tNeb.) 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 q mistake In refusing arbitration
Capital must get its living wage as well
rs labor.-Milwaukee Free Press.
Business can hobble along under higt
freight rates. Death would follow q
general railroad strike.-Baton Rouge
H4a.) Times.
The American people do not believe
there Is any difference between the
roadn and the pmnIoyaqs that cannot hf