Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-08-10
WHAT EDITORS SAY
Of RAILWAY ISSUE
Demand Peaceful Settlement Of
Wage Controversy.
stake MUST Be AvER1ED.

Almess N~nanimously Ns~,papsrs In
derss eroposals Of Railway Manager
That Wass Question b Settled b,
lntssskaHs Commerce Commission o.
BY AFeitration Under the Nswland'
Law.
Chicago-The proposed strike BY al
railway train service employees in OF
der to secure q wage increase Of 500.
10000 q year Il condemned BY news
paper editors throughout the country.
They declare such 4 strike would be
= pubic 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 ths inter
state commerce commission or By ar.
htrauon 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-Davenport
Qa.) Times
The interstate commerce commits
ston represents the great public. It
was created for the purpose Of holding
even the scaleA-Rocky Mountain
News, Denver.
The uainnen should take prudent
thought Arbitration Is their wise pol
icy.-Detrdt Free Press.
The public will support any finding
the interstate commerce commission
may make.-Dallas Uex) News.
Public opinion ought to have reen-
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 (Nass.) Transcript
The interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible If It
permitted a strike to come.-Minneap-
oils Journal
The train crew unions have no case
which they are willing to ty 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-
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 50 long
it regulates rates.-New York Trib-
une.
The railroad ~brotherhoods are mis-
taken. There IS something to arbi-
York World.
The railway employees are plainly In
The wrong and should sense their mis-
take before they make a worse blum.
der.-Oshkosh Wis.) Northwestern.
Neither side could afford to take the
position Of demanding more than the
commerce commission would
Dispatch.
The railroad employees are not sui.
such intolerable wrongs that
they cannot await the result Of arbi.
tIatdon-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
employees.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Either the railroads are wrong Of
their employees + Any Just cause
WIN stand investigation. - Jackson
(Mlss) Clarion-Ledger..
This is the time when every Amer1.
can who lo7es 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
Lesie's Weekly.
It IL Just as true that organized labor
may Cypress the public in%tolerably as
that organized capital may do It.
Lowell NiasA) Citizen.
Those who would suffer most from
. tying up Of the nations traffic would
get no vote on the question Of q strike.
Lincoln Neb.) 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 br~otherhoods are max
Ing 6 mistake In refusing arbitration.
Capital must get its living wage as well
a. labor.-Mflwaukee Free Press
Business can Mobile along under high
rates. Death would follow a
general railroad strike.-Baton Rouge
Qa) Times
The American people do not believe
there IS any difference between the
roads and the employees that cannot be
adjusted peaceably.-Bloomington OILY
Paragraph.
The railroads have accepted the per-
fectly reasonable and natural sugges-
ton that the wage question be settled
By observation-disclosures Journal
Why should a vote be taken on .
strike which the public Will never tol-
srate?-St. Louis Post-D Dispatch
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