The New York herald., 1922-07-28
Industrial Disputes to Be
Fewer When Public Is
Considered More.
NO TALK OF POLITICS
Executive on Vacation Gets
Three Pound Bass and
Puts 1t Back.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
. LAKE GEORGE. N. Y, July 27.-Gov.
Miller holds labor and employers
equally responsible for industrial dis
putes and resultant troubles now men
acing the public welfare. On the en-
ployer rather than the unions rests
the duty of making the advance to-
ward peace and mutual understand
ing, he holds.
Capital cannot destroy labor unions,
the Governor declared to-day In an
interview dealing with the whole in
dtfstrial problem. This is his first
statement on the subject since he has
been in office.
Labor has the right, unquestionably.
to collective bargaining, in the opinion
of the Governor, for the worker can
not meet the situation standing alone.
Wages and other related questions
should be dealt with as matters of
contract.
But the worker in the union is cul-
pable in that, like the employer. he
overlooks public interest and is likely
to follow the extreme radical and the
dishonest leader who seeks to exploit
both the unions and the public for his
revolutionary ends.
Governments Duty to Act.
When public necessity like transpor-
tation becomes involved as in the ex-
isting railroad strike. it becomes grave
question at what point the Government
should intervene to preserve the pub
lie welfare. Caught between such self
ish. conflicting interests, the public can
look only to Its Government for protec-
tion and then it becomes the ddt. of
TIL Government to act, he said.
During his vacation the Governor is
keeping in daily, almost hourly. contact
with all official proceedings. M pub
lie question is receiving more attention
or giving him more concern than tie
disorders in several parts of the State
incident to strikes. The State troopers
under orders from the Governor, are
protecting property and the public In
Buffalo. where there is bad street car
strike; in Hornell. Olean, Syracuse and
half a dozen railroad centers where
strikers have made trouble.
There has been some criticism of the
activities Of the state police. and the
Governors views expressed In this In
terview with THE New YORK HERALD
are regarded as his answer, setting forth
wherein he considers 1t right for the
Government to act.
r'he Governor tanned brown and re-
laxed from the nervous tension under
which he was working last spring. had
lust come ashore from a few hours
fishing when the interviewer arrived
and asked his views on many questions
Exhibiting fine catch OF perch. to the
de ight an. pride of his daughters. he
said one of the hardest things he had
to do for days was to throw back big
bass, observing that the game laws as
wei as others must be observed. The
Governor insisted 1t was at least three
mound bass. Even a Governor has to be
bound by the laws if 1T does Involve
sacrific cling fine bass.
Not a Word About Politics.
Then he sat down on the broad, in
viting porch of his summer home, with
It's gorgeous outlook down cool lawns
to the lake, across the mile or two Of
water and into the mountain ranges
piled high around the lake.
AT first he was not disposed to dis
cuss industrial troubles or any other
public question.
On the subject of politics and his own
denomination for Governor he was ST.
lent not word from him on that, al
though he knows as we'll as any one
that the entire Republican organization
of the State and the public. too, are
waiting for the word that puts him into
the political fight to be decided In New
yorlx n faw weeks from now
But when he had made up his mind
to talk about the Industrial situation
he expressed his views as positively as
II he had been weeks preparing that
very statement. Asked what he thought