Arizona republican., 1921-10-18
TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER IS. 1921
Tue king-becoming graces-deUo- ton, courage, patience, fortitade.
 Shakespeare.
The Only Way Out


 The public group of the railroad labor board offers way avoid the most disastrous strike that ever threatened this other country. Neither the railway workers leaders the transportation masters disposed to it. And If it is not accepted both. if they maintain their present atti- tude of stubborness, will be regarded participants in what we suppose will become known the Crime of 21." fearful may be the consequences Of it.
 As the thing now stands the public regards both be wrong. The public remembers how railroad workers became favored class and it knows how that dspte reduction last July, their wages still high compared with the pay of men in other lines in period of dire unemployment
 The public also knows that through the wage reduction the roads saved s400000O0o Yet then they have little nothing to relieve the country of the heaviest rate burden ever borne since railroads built. Every part of the coun- try grooming under it.
 At first the condition of the roads after they were turned back their attributed to Tnismanagement by the national administration. That was. of course. contributory, but the public has since learned that the msmangement by the private owners has gross under the trans pcrtation it under the government The act allows them a revenue of per cent on an in- vestment of s19.O0O.OOO,OOO. when authorities pretty generally agreed that the investment does not exceed 50 per of that amount.
 Also is known that the roads never before paid such extravagant salaries as they paying to high officers; before they guilty of such waste Under the cent guaranty clause they can hide their earnings and make the per per cent per
 These briefly, are the why the public is sympathetic with either of the parties to the dispute why will the more bitterly resent the punishment which strike would inflct the country-an appalling loss of property. ncalcu- rable ss,fferinr uagnified unempIoynent and now the edge of winter hunger starvation and death.
 The plan of the public group of the labor board eontemplates that the reductions of last July converted into freight reductions and that there shall be immediate wage reductions; that later, if wage reductions be advisable, the saving shall be passed to the suffering public
 From such expressions as have followed the publication of the labor boards plan it has not have said, been approved by either side. The labor leaders denounce railroad head char acterizes as absurd"
 Yet there is hopeful note, the statement of President Atterbury of Pennsylvania road, who agrees in general way with the plan proposed by the public group says:
 nevertheless, it is fact that the carriers, though they earning what they, should to entite shem be called prosperous what the law in tends they shall cannot rest under such pro- lection while other business struggles for it's life. R would a wise policy for the carriers publicly 10 aVow and voluntarily reduce rates where sher now work hardships even though such rates may be reasonable in transportation sense. and even though to reduce them a loss revenue so the carriers"
 The expression, that the railroads may not be -callcd prosperous suggests something which Rosh the roads and the workers should consider; ahat that nothing is really prosperous nobody is F-,aSss-s@S> We only struggling back pros ressty. Reads and workers should bear their share 0E Tho antithesis of prosperity
 We do know whether there is any relation between Air Atterburys statement and the that strike leaders struck the Pennsylvania road out os strike order No. 1. If so. that would indicate willingness on the part of the leaders the roads on some such basis that proposed by the labor board.
 It is inconceivable, once the roads and the labor leaders have 10 grasp the extent and the con seoueuces of the crime they propose, that they will persist in it INr both of them the reckoning will be as fearful as the injury which would inflicted Upun the