Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-26
Wednesday Morning, July 26, 1916.
DEFYINe THE PU5Llc

DIETING THE PUBLIC
 By their attitude in rejecting arbitration of settling their differences railways the train men are hopeessy preudcing their cause with the pub Ic and public opinion is the symbol of concrete force which, when exercised all obstacles in eventu ally securing universal demand. When man or . measure by defiance sympathy toward eithe' is aenated Defiance strongly suggests if it does no positively prove unreasonabeness So when the train men present themselves before the of public opin ion openly defiant their case is unnecessarily dscreded
 Their demands may or may not be fair but the pub lie is justified taking the position that tribunal other than selfconstitued one should pass the The public takes position because its interests con cerned far and above either the tranmen or h railways Universal resentment against being ignored by the trainmen is increasing in dege throughout tn country
 If in the absence of arbitration. strike be called and economic caamities ensue, lasting blame will at tach to the trainmen responsible They will drag wit them into disrepute the organized labor because the public at large upon whom the evils of strif would fall will disinclined view the resulting stir stion with mrartiay. The thought will finger that h tranmen constituting strong branch of organized labo used it as means for attempting accomplish an eH which was not proven be beneficial to the public wei fare The North American Review publishes in it's rent issue an unusually Illuminating article, part which follows:
 .Drhe railway problem ot the United States, whcl already was complex and difficult been rendered douby so by demands which the locomotive engineers fremen conductors and ether trainmen have made upon the railways.
 Most people disposed to regard sympatheticall' all movements woringmen improve their condition on the assumption any advantage labor gair will be secured at the expense of capital No such as sumption can be made this instance The proposed increase in wages would necessarily advance in rates and would therefore be borne by the people
 The people pay directly all passenger fares, an{ they pay indirectly part of the prices of the good they consume practically all freight rates The averag' wage of the train service employees is S1255 year The average earnings of the 6615O46 employees in the manufacturing industry in the United States in f9O! were only s51S It is extremely doubtful if the income of farmers would approach the of th' train service employees
 'The train service employees. according to thei' leaders are strongly averse submitting their demand to arbitration
  side are the railways with 63OOOO stockholders, army of bondholders and almost a million and half of em ployees who directly involved
 "On the other side are SO9,OOO employees, IS pc cent of number receiving almost 4OOOOOOOO year in wages or 2S per cent of paid The, have combined to demand S10O OOOOO year more; their leaders intimate, and threaten that they vii not arbrate but will strike and paralyze the transpor tation the and the industry of the whole try unless their demands granted
 'The situation demonstrates strkingly the exstencC of a fatal defect in policy of regulation. All tons efecting railway investment and indirectly involving This especially truC of wage questions 45 every dollar col lected in paid out in wages. But while th' Government has made arbitration of differences betweer shipping and travelling public the railways pulsory, established the Interstate Commerce Commission a ornament rate arbitration board, it ha not by making arbitration of labor disputes compulsory provided for the maintenance of transportation.
 "The train service employees by carrying a Ma onal movement for increases their have made the question of railway wages their arbitration