Evening star., 1922-09-27
ROOT, AT ALBANY,
PLEADS CURB Of
STRIKE INJUSTICE
Declares for Law, Liberty
and Public Protection at
Albany.
CALDER AND MILLER
NOMINATIONS SEEN
Attorney General Newton With
draws in Contest Facing
! Convention.
By the Associated Press.

ALBANY. September 27.-Republi-
can leaders gathered here for the
first official state convention in ten
years believed today that a harmony
program would be evolved which
would result in the denomination OF
Gov. Nathan L. Miller. United States
Senator William NJ Calder and the
selection of candidates for elective
state offices who are IN sympathy
with the governors views on pub
lie service
The decision today Of Attorney
General Charles D. Newton to with
draw as a candidate for re-nomina-
tion left only the problem of pla-
eating Secretary Of State John J.
Lyons standing in the way of com
plete accord.
Nominations and adoption of the
state platform will be made tomor
row.
A touch Of color missing in the old
time state conventions is lent to the
1922 convention by the presence of
fashionably clad woman delegates
and alternates-2S5 Of the former and
400 of the latter.
hOOt on strike EVlls.
Early adoption by the republican
Congress of laws at once prohibiting
strikes which "cut off the supply of
food or service necessary to the life
of the community" and at the same
time protecting the workmans lib
erty, was predicted by Elihu Root.
temporary chairman. in his address
before the convention to-day.
Touching on the recent rail and coal
strikes, Mr.. Root said:
I'VE are all employers and laborers
and the general public is apt to be
impatient about strikes. So long as
strikes were a contest between labor
ers and employers to secure for labor
its fair share of the new wealth
which has come to mankind through
invention and discovery and applica-
tion of science and the art OF or
ganiZation the sympathies OF the
American public were with labor.
When a strike becomes an attempt 10
coerce the public into taking action
by cutting off the supply OF food or
service necessary to the life Of the
community, ] am sure that puOilc
feeling goes the other way.
Two Kinds of Strike.
Il think that in this country we are
gradually approaching the point
where the law of the land will pro-
vide for distinguishing between the
/ two kinds of strikes and protecting
! the public against compulsion by
threat of peril to life or Of destruc-
| ton to the machinery Of civilization.
and at the same time protect the
workman's liberty to refuse to work
| and the workman's liberty to work
| If we cannot come to that point then
| the American government OF an tne
people, by all the people. for all the
people will fail and a few Will rule
| the many. Perhaps We are approach
ing that point as rapidly as is prac-
! ticable and wise to attempt.
Il am inclined to think that nothing
could be better at this stage of the
! perennial process of industrial ad-
! justment than the condition which
patience and sympathetic influence OF
| the President. That condition is full
and impartial investigation into the
rights and wrongs upon which the
recent strikes have rested. accom-
| nanied by a clear and uncompromis-
ing declaration by the President OF
the rule Of law and liberty, which il
to be applied to the results Of the in
vestigation."
| Declaring that the five things
most needed when President Harding
took office were an ending of "the
autocratic method of government
consented to for the purpose Of car
| ryine on the war; abolition of the
immensely extravagant scale of eX'
penditure established during the war
restoration of normal industrial pro
duction: establishment of interna'
from
1.-The condition of feverish excitement
incident to the war.
Mr.. Root asserted the Harding ad'
misistration had accomplished al
these.
President No Autocrat.
The President. he declared, put ar
end to autocracy by refusing to b.
an autocrat, by selecting an able
cabinet and being willing to take
their advice and let them run theil
own departments-at the same tim'
deciding infiexiblty, after taking coun
sci. on matters upon which the chiei
lexecutive was called to decide"
with Andrew Mellon holding tn
| shield of protection over the Treas
IVY" he continued, land Gen. Charle
Dawes, with accurate knowledge ant
torrential enthusiasm, welding tn
sword of q crusader, multitudes o
superfiuous employees have crowded
the roads away from Washington
resuming its natural and healthy di
mensiOns.'
MIR. Root pointed to the President
handling of the rail and coal strike
as evidences of his work in bringing
the nation back to normal industrial
conditions, and cited the five-powe
conferences at Washington as evi
dence Of his skill as u statesna'
. in international affairs.
1.-The fifth thing 1 mentioned" h
continued, was our ow.l nerve re
: covery. And behold. while our gov
ernment has been going on in IT
honest, sincere and kindly way. re
dressing abuses. reconciling differ
ences, and re-establishing a SCUM
conduct of government and life. W
find ourselves cured"
He defended Congress against tn
charge of "do-nothingism," assertin
: the true function of legislative bod
; is ito discuss a multitude of projects