El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-06-24
WHEN THE PUBLIC TRIES TO
DEFEND ITS RIGHT TO LIVE!

u necessary to break the Galveston freight blockade and
he got results. The governor Of New York and the
mayor Of the city Of New York helpless to break the
blockade the New York docks Four months the strike
went On, and it had become Singing MATCH with
rumen afraid TO 20 the docks, although they were
not concerned IN the strike. Business was being sorey
hindered and millions Of people dependent open
traffic made to suffer because the docnen and ship
workers who did not want to work broke the heads OF
those who did One ship carried cargo Of lumber back
and forth for Il trips because nobody would unload it
Merchants and industries had to 60 without their goods
bring materials IN BY rail at increased cost Ship lines
changed their ports permanently, and great export houses
closed their New YORK warehouses and moved headquarters
TO open ports further south
When all other means had failed the Merchants asso-
citation and other business organizations formed the C
Trucking company, called for volunteers, and pro-
vded fun equipment The trucks were manned BY men
who had served France with the New York infantry and
engineers There plenty Of and they scorned to
carry arms Merchants sent goods to the Citizens ware
houses and they delivered ships when the regular
trucking companies had been unable find do the
work The ex-servics men working the Citizens
pany the docks lifted freight trueked It up
The business carried under the direction Of
the old regimeutal officers The blockade broken
It reminds Of the Copenhagen Denmark organi-
zson recently described IN The Herald citizens alliance
protect the public rights when other fail The
Danish volunteers loaded and unoaded ships after strikers
had set up blockade and they even manned ships and
took them overseas
But isn't it queer situation when such methods are
necessary defend the pubcs rights? Justice Fawcett
Of the New York supreme in recent decision said:
While may enter any vocation he chooses,
yet if he selects field indissoubly linked with the
rights Of the public, such as common carrier he
must subserve his own rights to that Of the public
welfare"
Sound doctrine to which most Americans VIII subscribe.
Hear what Warren G. Harding the Republican presidential
candidate says about it. He voted for the antise pro
vision IN the railroad bill and when taken to task by
labor union officials IN his state he wrote follows
II reply:
IF the government representing all the people,
cannot guarantee transportation under any and all
conditions It fails utterly. II that government
cannot provide Just consideration for the workers op
Grating the transportation system It fails again It
ought 70 and it must DO both"
The strike Galveston and other ports IS estimated to
FL Paso 100000 Fourteen different unions
connected with shipping struck and blOckaded the ports
boats because the deck hands and longshorsmen were on
strike. While the strikes On, and children
families Of the strikers, vent hungry Most Of the men
ddt want 70 strike Yet they obeyed their leaders bndly
The public interest must be ssfeguarded, if the public
do It itself There talk Of another railroad
strike, than the two last At this tine, not
spark Of sympathy vii 20 out to these they tie up
the already oveburdened and tangled transportation lines
with strike.
railroad strike at this time would amount to decla-
ration Of against the American people; It is form
Of attack immoral poison gas IN the night We can
all stand with Harding his platform quoted above It is
night and It VIII hold.
Nobody believes fer minute that even if the Demo-
foolish to put vet plank in their platform
they could ever put It into law.
The sesress prediction that our nezt president viii be
bald leaves little chance for the heir apparent Maybe she
means he VIII be bawled out
federal Judge ruled that wool is not wearing APPAREL
he meant that there IS no wool in wearing apparel
washing onss face may be good remedy for laziusss
as Scott White says, but Why stop with the face?
Harding has given up his sumner vacation plans So
has Debs.