The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-11
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ative 10 reduce it's frequency and limi' its consequences.
 We deny the right to strike agains; the government. but the rights and in. terests of all government employees must be safeguarded by impartial laws and tribunity.
 In public utilities we favor the es- tablishment of an impartial tribunal to make an investigation of the facts and to render a decision to the end mat there may he no organized in- trrupt.on of service to the lives and Eeaith and welfare of the people. The de. sfU1s of the tribunals to be moral lf bat 19f legally binding, and an in- formed public sentiment be relied on
 ecVe their acceptance. The tri.
 vKdl. however, should refuse to ac- cpt jurisdiction except for the purpose investigation, as long as the public seVce be interrupted. For public uc-,ities we favor the type of tribunal provided for in the transportation act of 1920. {
 In private industries we do not ad- voeate the principle of compulsory arbitration, but we favor impartial commission and better facilities for voluntary mediation, conciliation and arbitration, supplemented by that full publicity which will enlist the influ- ence os an aroused public opinion. The government should take the initi- ative inviting the establishment of tribunals or commissions for the pur. pose of voluntary arbitration and in- vest 'zs ien of this issue.
 W and the exclusion from in. terstat sommerce of the products of convicl Dor.
 NATIONAL ECONOMY
 A republican Congress reduced the estimates submitted by the administra- tion for the fiscal year 1920 almost three billion dollars and for the fisca year 192l over a million and a quar- ter dollars. Greater economies could have been effected had it not been for the stubborn refusal of the admins tration to cooperate with Congress ir an economy programme. The univer- sal demand for an executive budget is a recognition of the incontroVertible fact that leadership and sincere assist iance on the part of the executive de lpartments are essential.sto effective economy and reconstructive retrench ment.
 The Overman act invested the Presi. dent of the United States with all the anu DOWeT necessary 10 re store the federal government to 2 normal peace basis and to reorganize retrench and demobilize. The domi. nant fact is that eighteen months after the armistice the United States gov ernment is still on a wartime basis and the expenditure programme of the Executive reflects wartime extrava- gance, raLier than rigid peacetime economy.
 As an example of the failure to re- trench which has characterized the postwar policy of the administration we cite the fact that. not including the war and navy departments, the execu- tive departments and other establish . ments at Washington actually record an increase subsequent to the armis- tice of 2,1s4 employees. The net de- crease in pay roll costs contained in the 1921 demands submitted by the ad- ministration is only per cent under that of 1920 The annual expenses of federal operation can be reduced hundreds of millions of dollars with = out impairing the efficiency of the public service.
 We pledge ourselves to carefully planned readjustment to peace time basis and to a policy of rigid economy, to the better coordination of departmental activities, to the elimi- nation of unnecessary officials and