The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
THE RAILROAD SETTLEMENT


 ~ HE THREATENED railroad strike has settled in a fortunate way The railroad managers, invited to do SO Dy appointed by the President o the United States have assented to the conditions the Adamson law whether that law should should be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme court.
 The argument that imminent had something to do with this determination reluctantly reached by the railroad presidents The sinking of three American ships hasten ed the decision.
 The duty to keep the railroads going as measure o1 na tonal safety apparent and it lay equally and employers But the duty to give in the particular dis pute heavier upon the employers The months made certain demands To avert strike President Wilson in tefvened the of their Their demand eight hour day adhered to- and the president pronounced it just He said indeed that eight hour day.
 day approved society and by the necessities of sound industry The Congress of the United States passed the Adam son law
 Thus the principle of eight hour day had the clear affr nation of the people, through their representatives
 During all this period the Broherhoods sought nothing that did expect to attain by with the railroads following such of direct action legally permitted take That is say the desired ment ad but only to exercise their legal right to strike.
 When the Adamson law passed the railroad brother expected speedy decision As they waited through months the decision delayed through period greatly than had been by the president the lower court they became impatient and determined to bring matters to issue
 The result is the depca result which the president found
 fooess the Brotherhoods of being contempt the Supreme The action of the Supreme court if it unconstitutional would Broherhoods They would have they had in the beginning and during each moment of the months that have passed, full legal right to strike.
 but and that moral why the Brother ought not initiate strike at this moment No principle of courtesy duty obligation the Supreme couras involved But the safety of the country involved eup of the raroads crippled those preparations which necessary while the world remains in it's state of be gefency, and while war may come at any instant
 The railroads probably fortunate in their settlement strike is not at all unlikely that public opera ton would have been inevitable
 It is we'll for many other interests that strike is to say how far such condition would proceed This not Russia There America The people wonderfully off those any other nation New eheess has it's Bourbons and it has it's groups who are determined upon progress.
 The effect of labor trouble reaching through the united ranks of vast and powerful organization of American citizens such the Boherhood represent could not have overturned might have overturned prematurey and unfortunate hour system which raises the price of food faster than industry raise wages ffl
 Such strike would have been perous by the lack of unity
 would have caused What it to to with the dissatisfied Great Britain found out President Wilson all statesmen has mind powerful to deal with practical matters in practical not unconscious of the experi of Great Britain unable to take leaf from the book of Lloyd George
 time would be easy to get along without rail- presidents but difficult to get along without engineers conductors anmen yardmen and the thousands of others who perform this dangerous difficult and necessary labor
 America is most fortunate in the possession of chief ove who has to hear with eyes to with and the habit of wise and swift action