Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-21

They seek to overturn existing
forms of government and social
organization and they know no bet
ter way of bringing this about than
through a finish fight between cap
ital and labor. They are the ones
who commit or incite and are re-
sponsible for practically all the
lawlessness that is so inexcusable
and so disastrous to the cause of
labor.
Those Who Would Stop Fighting
The other school of thought
those who would end the industrial
conflict by involving ways and
means Of settling differences with
out fighting them out to a finish
includes students of the problem
of industrial relations, employers
who view the relation of capital and
labor in the light of a fpaternership.
and government officials who have
tackled the job of. protecting the
public against the eveil consequent
ces of strikes. They are all paci-
fists, although not in the sense in
which that word was made a term
of %opprobium during the World
War.
Theodore Roosevelt was of this
school when he ended the great an
thracite GOAL strike OF 1902 because
he compelled the miners and opera
tors to stop fighting and then pre-
sented a plan for working out a
peace that continued for almost 20
years.
President Harding and Secretary
Hoover and others of his associates
have identified themselves with this
school by the efforts they have
made within recent weeks to stop
the costly warfare in the coal and
| transportation industries.
John ID. Rockefeller. Jr,. the late
II. B. Endicott and Henry Ford
have been conspicuous among the
| great employers of labor who have
acted upon the theory hat the way
to end the industrial war is to make
1t unnecessary and undesirable.
Lord Leverhulme. perhaps the larg-
est employer Of labor in the Brit
ish empire is another such. None
of them or of their kind has ever
advocated lighting it out"
Students of the Industrial problem
point out that the war with Ger
| many and the Central Powers was
fought to a finish, with a result
that has not yet proved altogether
happy. Ultimately the world may
be all the better for this demon
stration of the militant idea, but
that remains to be seen. Russia is
also cited as an example of what 1t
may NEAR to fight it out.
In the light of history as it has
been recorded during the last CEN
fury and a half in the United States
it is not to be expected that either
the militant or the pacifist idea will
! completely dominate in dealing with
| the strike problem. There will be
a compromise. There will be enough
of fighting to demonstrate that it
would be a bad thing for society in
general for either side to emerge
from the conflict a. complete victor.
| Perhaps there has been that much
already.
On the other hand 1t will be
shown that It would not be for the
general good to work out a peace
that involves the complete surren-
der of either side. After all, cap
! ital and labor must live and work
together if industry and CIVILIZATION
are to go forward, and this Is not
| possible If n is to be subordinated
| entirely to the other as a result
either of war &c the bitter end or OF
an injudicious peace.
One real danger in the present
situation, as leaders of affairs IN
Washington view 1t, is that n gen.
| eral public will cease to be concern
ed about the industrial problem as
soon as the Immediately disturbing
conflicts are over. In that event ut
tie or nothing will be done to pre-
cent a recurrence Of such troubles
or toward working out a permanent
| solution of the problem, for such
steps are taken only in response 10
an insistent.~ overwhelming pupilc
sentiment.