Arizona republican., 1919-09-11
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER Il, 1919
There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price on every real and noble pleasure. Addison.
The Public and the Private EmpIoye


 The strike of the Boston policemen and the con sequent riotng and destruction by mobs again question to the unionizng of employees in any public service. That the of this strike. The striking policemen had become affiliated with the American Federation of Labor something that the municipal government had forbidden The situation is quite similar to the controversy between the ployes of the postal service and Mir. Burleson.
 The right of labor to organize is now universally recognized The strike is also recognized as neces- sary instrument of the organization Without it the organization would be ineffective in emergencies. But there is a distinction between the employe in private employment and the employe in the public service The distinction is found in the word loyalty
 We often hear of the loyalty the lack of it in employees in private employment It is then misused There is really place for it. The sentiment of the worker toward his employer can be one of neither loyalty dsloyay. It is either frendliness or unfiendliness Their relation is purely business relation, dependent largely upon self interest There is loyalty between parties than there is between two horse traders
 The honest employer will pay his en- poye such wages and afford him such working Conditions possible. The honest enploye will give what he believes an adequate service in exchange for the wages he receives Neither feets that he the other anything neither feels that the other him anything else This arrange ment naturally gives the employe friendly interest in his employment, and the employer friendly in- erest in the employe. Any departure by either party from the arrangement for fair exchange produces unfiendliness which may manifest itself in the form of lockout or strike
 The case of the employe in the public service is quite different He is public servant. His first Qualification must be loyalty. If he is wanting in that he is wanting in everything. His performances must be entirely based upon his loyalty He may quit his service if he does like it. he is dissatisfied with his wages the conditions of his employment But he with others quit so as to embarrass the public whom he has been serving, he is not striker but conspirator and the conspirator is es sentally disloyaI and unfit for the public service
 He cannot, at any rate. should not thereafter be dealt with private employer may deal with striker. The employer and the striker may adjust their differences and resume their former relation government should estopped fom any future dealing with conspirator. Once of the public service he should be kept out
 Again. the American Federation of Labor de- bends entirely upon the loyalty of it's members If they worthy members they will be loyal to 1t be- they have other call upon their loyalty The public employe if a member of it and loyal member be loyal the public there be no such thing a divided loyalty.
 Either. government it represents the majority of the people who express themselves at elections must rule else the American Federation of Labor rule cities the nation through its members engaged in the public service Any other arrangement would be as impossible as Lincoln said 1t for this nation to exist haf-slave and half free