The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-30
The Pulse of the Nation

railroads." the Roanoke World News is
\ convinced, but it warns that now 1.-The
| things most needed are Cancellation, fair
ness and sincerity on the part of both
| railway leaders and railway executives,
and conscientious effort on the part of
congress to devise some efficient means
for protecting the interests of the rail-
roads, the union men and the public. And
it. will be little less than a crime against
the future for executives labor leaders
or congress to fall down on the job
This decision of 1.-The most powerful of
labor groups, the Providence Journal
holds, can be traced to 1.-THE openly eX-
pressed hostility of the county to the
shipments strike, which had a SOLDERING
effect upon the unions which were not in
volved. There was not little talk of
legislation providing penalties for the
calling of strikes, the public being thor
oughy sick of the trouble created by ir
responsible agitators. The leaders of the
other unions have acted wisely, in avoiding
direct conflict with public opinion /"
The Utica Observer Dispatch feels that
the removal of the menace of a general
strike will be hailed with JOY by the pub
lic-'the innocent who are always in the
majority 1t is time that someone began
to realize that q strike that paralyzes
a great basic industry is Selfish indi-
vidual destructive movement" The Min
neapcls Journal, going a step further,
asserts that ''the issue is really between
democracy and Capitalization, and calos-
sal strikes mean, as Mr.. Lee we'll knows
and openly proclaims, that the govern
ment must step in and control them.
There is a better way and 1t lies in keep
ing the union democratic in their organ
ization and their attitude toward en-
ployers and the public through direct,
man-to-ma relations in regional group
Al u NOD
the rail. brotherhoods are now adopting.
The disaster to the shopcrafts organiza
ton has taught them a great lesson. No
more nation wide strikes for them"
In fact. his entire statement of posi-
ton lis sound sense" the Columbus Dis
patch says, land does credit to the judg-
ment and spirit of the man who utters it.
1t is only reasoning passion that can eX-
pect gain for a comparatively small frac-
ton out CT a policy which willfully sac
rifices the vital interests of the great
majority Under proper circumstances the
public will sympathize with any class of
labcrers who can show a genuine grfev-
ance, but not when the public itself is
subjected to a great wrong by the method
through which the grievance of labor is
brought tc its attention"
The announcement, according to the
Boston Transcript, indicates that Mr..
Lee has awakened from dreams OF q gen
eral strike. If this change from conditions
as they have recently existed really comes
to pass it will mean the temperance Of
common sense in dealings from which it
has been conspicuously absent" While
Mr.. Lee says he will take sides with the
government against the unions should
another general railway strike seem i'm
minent, the Charlotte Observer insists
that the government itself has indicated
will and determination that the strike
of the future is going to be conducted
under conditions widely different from
conditions which have obtained here in
recent years. The strike has been Amer
icanized."