Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-25
WHEAT EDITORS SAY
 0F RAILWAY ISSUE
Demand Peaceful Settlement of
 Wage Controversy.
STRIKE MUST BE INVERTED.

Law.
 ChiCago.-The proposed strike by all railway train service employees in or der to secure a wage increase of S1OO.- 0O0,OOO q year is condemned by news paper editors throughout the country.
 They declare such a strike would be q 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.-Chlcago Tribune.
 LAAC Sltsll iiAbAlN AAto HWY HN SANNN than either the railway stockholders or the railway employees.-Davenport QaD Times.
 The interstate commerce commis- 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-Dctroit Free Press.
 The public will support any finding the interstate commerce commission may make.-Dallas CTeXl News. i'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.-Uolyoke MaSs.) Transcript.
 The interstate commerce commission would certainly be responsible if 1t permitted strike to come.-Minneap- oi.s 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 Opinicn.--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 avoi! regulating wages so long aS it 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 n worse hlun. ,ler.-OShkosh (Wis) Northwestern.
 Neither sile could afford to take the position of demanding more than the interstate commerce commission would auprove.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
 The railroad employees are not suf- fering such intolerable wrongs that they cannot await the result of arbi- 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 vitally interested fin 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 NiIssl Clarion-Ledgar.
 This is the time when every Amcri- can who loves his country should set aside his own schemes of aggrandiZe- mcut.-Eansas City Journal
 The United States government can. not permit any strike that would tie up all the railroads of the country Leslies Weekly. It is just as true that organized labor may oppress the public intolerably as that organized capital may do it Lowell NlassD Citizen. Those who would suffer most from a tying mp Of the nations traffic woHld get no vote on the question of Il strike Lincoln Nebl Star. One thing Is certain. the railroads the railroad employees and the Ameri can people cannot afford such strike Memphis Appeal We think the brotherhoods are mak ing a mistake in refusing arbitration Capital must get Its living wage as well IS labor.-Miiwaukee Free Press.
 Business can hobble along under high l freight rates Death would follow general rajrzd strike.-Baton Rouge Nal Times.
 The American people do not believe ! there is any difference between the roads and the employees that cannot be adjusted neaeeably.- y.-BloominEton Qlll -Japh.
 inc railroads have accepted the per fectiy reasonable and natural sugges- ton that the wage question be settled | Ly arbitration. Boston Journal Why should a vote be taken on strike which the public will never tol- erate?-St Louis Post-Dispatch.