Evening star., 1922-03-06
Labor's ee.Power Treaty.

with tho reported refusal OF the
coal operators to meet mine workers
reprosentakiSes to discuss new work.
ing agreements, the danger OF q
strike OF the coal miners is presum-
ably materially increased. In view
of that probable walkout the real
significance Of tho formal alliance OF
miners, railroad workers ana long
shoremen Just contaminated becomes
a matter of Interested speculation in
the papers, for, as the Providence
Journal declares, this association OF
organized workers may be OF great
detriment to the public" and ITS plans
are consequently 'of direct and vital
interest 70 the American people
m at the Chicago conference of the
miners and the seventeen railroad
unions is such, many editors remark,
that 1t may mean . great deal or
it may mean nothing. the baIi-
moro News suggests that 1T might
cistes had been following = recent
and distinguished example when they
agreed merely that when any group
OF the associated organisations should
be attacked they would confer upon
ways and means Of meeting the
ems.gency; while there is perhaps
in in the % added stipulation that action
taken under this gectfon ts subject
to the approval OF each ofganiza-
tion represented The agreement
Is "wordsd as automatically as the
covenant Of the league OF nations or
any portion Of the four-power treaty."
observes, for "it does not commit the
labor ORGANIZATIONS to anything
drastic, but It does bring them to-
gether on what they feel Is common
ground" Therefore the News feels
that the sSsx al,isSSs s,t1s is not are armns ing
gesture intended to influence public
opinion" and to clinch the impression
"that a coal strike Is inevitable" the
New York Tribune thinks. In view
OF that strike, however. the miners
were after q compact with the rail-
Ledger Independently holds, ''that
could have turned coal strike into
4 general strike" II such were needed
to give victory to the miners. That
they yifd not get and are not likely
to get" the Ledger continues; they
a a. mild AFFAIR" granting the moral
support" of both classes OF trans
bort men. Railroad workers who
were canny enough to call of a pro-
jected strike of their own because
fhsy found that public sentiment and
tAe KOvefnRent were against tAem."
are not 1t all likely, the Newark News
believes, to enter into sympathetic
striSe" agreement "for coal miners
with whom they find themselves In =
theorStfool community OF interest"
especially when "thefe fs no real
comnunity OF interest between the
two clasSek"
Aside from the Immediate issue Of =
cosa strife, howevsr. the New York
Times finds ~ potential danger In an
alliance OF coal minere, railway work
ers and tongshofemen," ana the Bdr-
msngham News agrees that 1T 10
diotinctiy . potentially dangerous
combination" Essentially. the Hart
ford Times declares II IL Nn onen-
sive alliance dlfected agaanet the
mass OF the psople and designed sole.
ly for the aEgraAdiesment oI the
craft ORGANIZATIONS involved. "Cau.
tiously 40 the Agreement 10 worded,
sAys the 81. Louis be.DeEnocret.
at gives definite expressfol to q
community Of tntereet, VITA The pvr-
pose 81 fnffue1cang In their favor By
3 ,show OF co-Qrdinate9 poWer the
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