Evening journal., 1919-12-18
COMPROMISING WITH LawLEssNEss.

xxyIr tho coal strike settled everyone is rejoicing and
w but few viii realize the compromise made by Pres
iden Wilson In order to bring It about
When Or. Garfield offered the strikers IL per cent
they refused but when The President came along
with the compromise that this merely pre-
lImnory and that the commission to be set up VIII have
full power consider further increases and the matter
OF working conditions tho miners quickly saw they had
won and quite naturally decided to go back to work
The miners strike unlawful
We that to be fact because the President him
self has said so
Now he comes forward with a compromise with tpe
very men whom short time before he accused Of acting
against the law
In other words nc compromises with unlawfulness.
No decided stand taken by the President or any
Of the officers OF the Government charged with the re-
sponsbility Of adjusting the situation
Secretary OF Labor Wilson. ex-mine worker and for
more than eight years. Sec etaryreasurer Of the United
Mine Workers naturally preiudiced that no set
Element could be hoped for from that source.
The Attorney General, asprant for the Presidential
chair stalled along day after day. making howery state
ments with an attempt carry water both shoulders
Instead Of using tile power Of his onlce TO bring the
TO Justice who we're causing against the law untold
suffering throughout the land he blandy let matters take
their own and welcomed the compromise at the
hands Of the President beautiful way Of washing his
hands clean Of the trouble.
out political statement Issued the settlement Of the
strike he brazenly states that
"The coal strike is settled the Government wanted
II settled"
We don't recall how the Government wanted It settled
but we do know that the only way u should have been
settled was to settled II in favor Of the people and
nc in Of the yoators Of the law Further on in the
statement he said:
81 restated what the Governments position had been
from the beginning and insisted their lMessrs Lewis
and Green) acqulescence"
In other words Mr.. Palmer says:
Look at met I'm the boy what done the trick. I'm
the guy"
And again he said: "They finally agreed TO it,"
This to denote long and arduous work on his part In
persuadng the strike leaders to accept something which
was for their benefit
In the last paragraph Of the statement he says:
mining will be fully resumed at once the danger OF
distress and suffering during the winter Is passed.
Why passed9 The suffering has been present in hun
treds Of cities for weeks In places the lack Of coal
has been so great that residents have found 10
TO burn their furniture to keep from freezing to DEATH
And stlll Mr. Palmer has the audacty to say that the
danger OF distress and suffering Is passed..
There may be some who will swallow this sugar
coated political pacner but the majority Of the thinking
peope Of the United States win clearly through the
Thin screen of real effort and witness beneath the cut and
dried statement Of a who seeks political prominence
through an attempt to up the mismanagemen Of
his present office.
The so-called settlement the Government wanted II
settled" is nothing moro less than victory for the
radical labor leaders and Mr. Palmer knows just as we'll
as everyone who has followed each and every move
OF the proceedings.