Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-19
THE CAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL

e. rho Threatened strike took on phase yesterday
when the railroad presidents having conferred WI WV.
President Wilson expressed their deteTlhiatloi W
nat and be satisfied with nothing less than .o ~
aiI subjects of dispute between them and the proIe
boodc They did not in words express themselves p'
ntmated it so strongly that other meaning can oe
drawn from their acts They arrived at w -,
suen and scrappy mood, ana tllls VneS
throughout the day. ,.. f . ,,osc IF
feature of the day was Vfie prooIcul; ; ~ t. % stand
teleprams from big manufacturers indoslng thel stI
The CAPITAL Journal called attention yesterday 10 e U
made bv "'The Manufacturers News, an employers @ ne
n"rar nuhished in Chicago requesting manufacturers
generav to wire the railroad president ana lhuolSe JIG
action Of the railroads in refusing anything put
ton and these dispatches We're no doupl Ie nen +b
that call with perhaps addltlohal Inducements ~
railroad presidents, previously maue. , th+ +ho
II shows as the Journal suggested yesterday Ihal l
coll in the News was inspired and that 1t was the pos pos
ton that the roads wished to take ia+ I os we'll he
strike had to come some tlihe anu II s "
fought to a finish now, fo+,,rorc
No other solution of the action OF the @ s
&c nossibe It is prepOsterOus to even imagine Cry |
co interested in this matter that they Woula oe Ws
I tboir businesses tied up indefinitely by stflke Vi
ouch proportons as this is sure to be IL II coieo. e
Tba conclusion becomes irresistible that the actlon ol
the railroads is for political purposes anu V lI JDS 20
Tbav would mt the president in hole II they coo %
that he would be defeaed and man more lrieiloS :"
the "bg interests elected :h+ ho,,r do,
is simply that " can't be done only snort e,e t 9e
Il.o
Toilette seamens law which they said would Pu Vieo Wn
ont of business and this without giving 1t tr and le
thev today hoist their flag again on the Paclc anu & ~
their bic vessels to the Orient while the law Is SUN III
force. A.. low. Tbav failed
Now they accept and are in business aga hsv ue' are not
The railroads are taking the same course lhey ae NV
;n to oiye the pan of an eight hour day trial
Contrast the course Of @ the nsd sSaS esaed ha @ they @
Vi o dty 70 The whole country and by vote OF three
to accept any proposition hsS in d0s cect sfs
ad The case to arbitration with the president as islol o
traitor Are the railroads afraid to do ths lhey ITf af
acted wisely and sanely and gone much more 5han nan
wav to bring the matter to peaceful end ana w1hou1 @
injury to the country 1t looks very much as tnouga 1t
railroads presidents had gone back to the old
stve business 'the people be damned system ms t Ma
the position Of the railroads last night 1t Is hoPea naS
wiser counses may prevail today and the railroad
realize that they are only the servants OF the country noo
it's dicators They got their fingers badly burned 9,ee
from irving to run the politics of the country ana re- re-
ceved too harsh treatment from an outraged pr pqoe aent aTl
so doing They had about lived TINS leeg O u 70
ment down. and they will do we'll to so act as not 10 cause
it to blaze up again