Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-08-29
PEOPLE DEMAND
END Of STRIKES,
DECLARES REID
NOn-PoIiticaI Speech Fea-
lures Evening of Brilliant
Addresses by Leading
Republicans.

"The people of the United States
are not goins to permit a cessation
of railway traffic in this country.
The question of a means of settle
ment of labor disputes particularly
in transportation lines. without
strikes and walkouts, is one that
must be solved. A body clothed
with authority to fix labor rates
and and to compel their observ-
ance; an impartial and just body
that aims to do the right thing by
both employer and employe, must
be maintained. The railway labor
board was intended to be such a
body, but congress, fearing the in
fluence of a million or more or
ganized voters, took from 1t the
authority granted by the original
transportation bill, and the wishes
and best interests of many millions
of unorganized voters were ignor d.
We don't hold our representatives
responsible as we should for what
they do in congress"
This, in effect. was the observa-
ton of Capt. w. c. Reid in an ad-
dress last night at the dinner given
by the Association of Republican
Women of Bernalillo County in
honor of the republican women of
the state. Present and among the
speakers were many prominent re-
publicans from all parts of New
Mexico.
Captain Reid said he sympa-
thized in many particulars with
men on both sides of the present
labor controversy, and spoke from
the viewpoint OF the public. which
cannot longer tolerate strikes and
threatened strikes in vital indus
tries.
Captain Reid, who has been men,
toned as n senatorial possibility,
said that he would rely on the
statement of II. b. Holt that he
believes the republican party
should practice rotation in office,
and he thus expected to be sena-
tor In about twenty-four years.
H. B. Holt of Las Cruces a
prominent candidate for the sena-
torial nomination, said that public
office is a public trust and should
be administered impartially and
competently.
Francis G. Tracy of Carlsbad,
also a senatorial candidate, de-
clared for law enforcement. He
said that every law should be en-
forced as long as It is on the stat
ute books, and made a plea for
conscientious action on the part of
officeholders and voters.
Women i'm Politics.
Col. George w. Pritchard, vet
eran attorney of Santa Fe and also
a senatorial candidate, said that the
influence of women in politics will
be for the good. He declared that
they have always had a powerful
indirect influence, but with the bal
lot they can impress themselves
more firmly on public affairs. Even
without the prohibition amend
ment, he said, women would have
solved the saloon problem.
Mrs. Adelina Otero-Warren, a
candidate for the nomination for
representative, was unable to be
present, but sent telegram from
Santa Fe congratulating the repub-
lican women of the state on organ
izing for the support of their party,
and SAID the principles of the par
ty are worthy of the support of all
good women.
Congressman Nestor Montoya
declared that he favors the imme-
date taking over by the states of
all public lands lying within their
borders. He said this could be
done by appropriating them under
the enabling act, as the original
10 states had been allowed to do
when they came into the union.