The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-03
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1915
LABOR LOSING GROUND.

1t is difficult to write of subjects in |
dependent of the labor disputes that sc |
completely fill the public mind. Organ
ized labor has made one demand after |
another. each one little more radical
and further step toward dictatorship.
until it has become alarming. A brief
review of the accomplishments of or
ganized labor leaders in their most rad
ical and dangerous threats and de-
mands, however, is rcassuring to law
abiding people.
The strike of the bituminous coal
miners seems quite complete, despite the
injunction placed upon the officers of
their organization. These officers, it is
announced, intend to obey the injune
ton of the court and to make a strong
fight against it in the federal court next
Saturday, the day set for making the
Injunction permanent or multiplying it.
That is victory for law and author
ity with the leaders. 1t is impossible at
this time to predict how long the min
crs themselves viii remain on strike
bat they will not hold out SO long with
out leadership as they would with it.
The coal strike is weakened by the
stand of the government against it. At
the time the Adamson robbery was per
petrated the administration was at least
| aquiescent to the demands of the rail.
| road men but now it is definitely OPP
posed to the coal miners and their resort
to strike. So far as the American
| federation of labor and the railroad
brotherhoods sympathize with the min
crs they antagonize the administration
and that is serious loss to the cause
of labor.
1t is not the coal operators nor the
striking miners whose interests are par
amount in this struggle, but the people
who are the government of the United
Il States and the people are standing al
stone wall against the attempt t,
override them by freezing the who'll
into submission to a part of the people
The International Farm congress ha
adopted resolutions declaring that or
ganized labor cannot count on tn
; farmers to join it in any efforts to fur
Their shorten the hours of labor or in
crease wages and declares that organ
!, lied labor must soon heed a concerte'
) demand from the farmers that it no
only cease agitation along these lines
but that it use its best efforts towar,
"exerting a steadying influence" i
these turbulent times, particularly b.
refraining from striking. The Farmer
National congress has just declared il
self opposed to all strikes and that tn
short workday and ever increasing wag
es demanded by industrial labor a
"allies to the profiteer in keeping u
the high cost of living That is tn
answer of the farm organizations while
have recently been invited to meet wit
representatives of organized labor a
Washington to formulate opposition t
2 proposed national legislation tina
would restrict labor leaders from PAL
alizing public service. Organized labo
has lost the support of the organize
farmers as we'll as the administration
The big steel strike that was herald
ed as a battle for organized labor
quietly being snuffed out. 1t lost il
fight in the conference called at Wasl
2 ington and the steel mills are resumin
Operations with the principle of tt