The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-09-01

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.
Chicago.-The proposed strike by all
railway train service employees in or.
der to secure a wage increase of 500.
100000 year is condemned by news.
paper editors throughout the country.
They declare such a strike would be
public calamity and that 1t 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.
bltration 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
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.
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
(Mass.) Transcript
The interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible If It
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
Commercial.
The controversy is not between the
railways and their employees, but be-
tween the public and the railway en-
ployees. York Globe.
The men now seem to show rather
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 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
commerce commission would
approve.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The railroad employees are not suf
fering such intolerable wrongs that
they cannot await the result of arbi
ration.-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 MS vitality interested in
the situation as the railways or the
Louis Globe Democrat.
Either the railroads are wrong or
their employees are. Any just cause
will stand investigation. = Jackson
Miss) Clarion-Ledger
This is the time when every Ameri.
IAN who loves his country should set
iside his own schemes of aggrandize-
City Journal.
The United States government can
lot permit any strike that would tie
lp all the railroads Of the country
Leslie's Weekly
1T is just as true that organized labor
nay Cypress the public intolerably as
hat organized capital may do it.
lowell (Mass) Citizen.
Those who would suffer most from
tying up of the nations traffic would
yet no vote on the question of a strike
Lincoln tNebl Star
One thing Is certain. the railroads
he railroad employees and the Ameri
IAN people cannot afford such a strike
Memphis Appeal
We think the brotherhoods are max
ng mistake I'm refusing arbitration
capital must get its living wage as well
rs labor.-Milwaukee Free Press
Business can hobble along under high
freight rates. Death would follow a
railroad strike Baton Rouge
La Times
The American people do not believe
here Is any difference between the |
'oads and the employees that cannot be |
peaceably .-Bloomington Qlli |
Paragraph.
The railroads have accepted the per