East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-22

>HERE two sides the railroad strike situation and the
facts supporting the contention of each side have been
fairly well presented This attempt to discuss the
merits or faults of the strike order
But another question of much fascination pertains to what
VIII happen the strike takes place. Can the employees win the
hke ana thereby attain what they want or will they lose out
and suffer accordingly?
Perhaps knows "Yo must do the sum TO prove
Is the slogan that will apply. But there many people who
nnk hey are impartial observers who feel that should they
strike the men will be undertaking very nard task and will
lind its accomplishment impossible
10 begin with the whole nation will be Inconvenience
distressed the strike comes That means something like 10
million people will suffer through wakout by less than
per cent OF the population Now hard for per cent of
the population put the other SO per cent in the hole and
away with it Particularly will this be when the power of
the federal government will be exercised in the direction of
keeping trains moving and when millions of people, who have
taken losses IN one way or another feel that railroad rates
shouo come down and that they cannot come down unless rail
ROAD wages reduced
there are other factors that will enter into the situation
one OF these has been discussed Chicago story to the New
YORK World by John Grunau The Worlds story here given
for what itmay be worth
the rrS @ o Sda M WI m the SCALED outlaw organization help to defeat
st Louis Jersey CITY, Buffalo ana tI N ma % ir iI rt ] o m
action outside the umom of the ] % 1p Grpn ] M M " n
With with his A%soH % Empoyees Association the onaon which has
tnsineer re%en freight conductors swhmcn membership
to d. w s s f@% anS o the "msn used an the power Of the
in os u 1920 retroactive to May Many thousands returned They
night ' ''' st. rat" ''''"''''' and chief the outlaws said to-
u sent membership week ago
% 1n m & only about 90 per cent Of the 10000 h went on the strike
, e IN the circular not take the places of strikers but am in doubt
are expert tranmen
treated The
families have suffered could not blame they went to work told
them they did they would be going back struck
crease hut that the working wercb
don't think the brohCOods Il o
uo Their own men Thirty
ana they VIII
records seories and
cannot Wh lhee never has railroad strike
Ihey were defeated In 1870 when fifty killed in Chicago
ana the troops called big
OF 1885 on the Gould system with the Knights than 100
killed in
The engineers lost strike
oil he sh lau Morton then president
Deos and the American hallway
dollars worth
other points The conditions
for the and the he railroads.
Il estimate that there
edge OF
Gil IN he last year The Include almost all departments of the
ot course belong
sting Is in the fact that when
ana heS
erhood chiefs can hold these mon back from jobs win them living
They neither now."
That naturally sounds bad from the strikers standpoint
though perhaps this mans subject discount be-
cause of his quarrel with the brohernoods But does
clear that the brotherhoods poor strategic position
they cannot improve that position materially they should cal
off the strike. 1t disgrace to retreat when the facts cal
Tor such tactics At least General Washington thought mucl
and he won long war by knowing how and when take hi
army to the