Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-08-12
WHAT EDITORS SAY
OF RAILWAY ISSUE
Demand Peaceful Settlement Of
Wage Controversy.
STRIKE MUST BE AyERTEo.

Interstate Comu,erce Commission o.
BY Under the sNsvierde
Law.
Chicago-The proposed strike by all
railway train service employees in or
der to secure a wage increase Of $780,
100000 year Is condemned by news
paper editors throughput the country.
They declare such a strike would be
| a public calamity and that it must be
averted.
dorse the proposals made by the COM
mtttee 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.-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.-DalIas TexJ 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 (hass.) Transcript
The interstate commerce commission
would certainly be responsible If 1t
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 I'm the great
court of public opinion.--New York
Commercial.
The controversy is not between the
tween the public and the railway en-
p1oyees.--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 avoid 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 a worse blum.
der.-Oshkosh CWis.) Northwestern.
Neither side could afford to take the
position of demanding more than the
interstate commerce commission would
approve.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The railroad employees are not suf
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 Hallway Age Ca
zette.
The public is as vitality interested In
the situation as the railways or the
GmpiOyG6S.-SL- LOUIS GlODe-DGmOcrat.
Either the railroads are wrong or
their employees are Any just cause
win stand Investigation. = Jackson
(Mtss-) 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 cam
not permit any strike that would tie
up all the railroads of the country
Leslie's Weekly.
1t Is just as true that organized labor
may Cypress the public fntolerably as
that organized capital may do It.
Lowell (1lass-l Citizen.
Those who would suffer most from
a tying up of the nations traffic would
get no vote ON the question Of strike.
Lincoln CNeb.) Star
One thing is certain. the railroads.
the railroad employees and the Ameri-
can people cannot afford such q strike
Memphis Appeal
We think the brotherhoods are max
ing mistake In refusing arbitration.
Capital must get its living wage as well
as labor.-Mflwaukee Free Press
Business can hobble along under high
freight rates Death would follow a
general railroad strike.-Baton Rouge
Ga.) Times
The American people do not believe
there is any difference between the
roads and the employees that cannot be