The Washington herald., 1922-09-14
HARDING PLEASED
Believes March of Nation
Back to Normally"
Can Be Resumed.
LAST OBSTACLE
NOW OVERCOME
Cabinet Member Says
Few Strikes Remain to
Hamper Industry.

Secretary Of Labor Davis. upon
receipt of a message from Chica 90
yesterday that a basis for settle
ment Of the railway strike had been
agreed upon, declared that this
would mean the removal OF the last
obstacle in the way of the greatest
economic revival the country ever
has known.
The Secretary was quick to CON-
municate the news to President
Harding at the White House The
been greatly cheered, thereby be-
lieving that the march Of the coun-
Try back to "normalcy" can be re-
sumed with quickened tread.
believe .DIe-Hards" VIII Yield.
While the Chicago agreement
| terminating the shopmen's strike
might seem to be only a partial
settlement. observers believe that
unemployment of nearly all of the
strikers is assured.
The "die-hsrd" roads. ii Is said.
have found strike breaking"
costly and will have TO re-emplOy
skilled workmen in order ade-
quately to compete with those roads
who have agreed to take the men
back. In view Of the seriously
broken down condition of locomo-
tives and cars resulting from the
strike at a time when the roads
must prepare for fall and winter
| business. This course is considered
most likely.
| American industry has overcome
T., ~ . a
greatest economic revival the ma
tion has ever known" Secretary
Davis declared after he was con-
Yinced that the Chicago negotiations
has reached a point where settle
ment of the railway shop strike was
practically assured.
Predicts Industrial Boom.
With the settlement OF the
strike of 100000 railroad shop
craftsmen" he added. the whole
| Industrial machinery of the country
is ready for a forward movement
unprecedented in our economic hts
tory. The disturbances in the bi-
| luminous and anthracite coal min
ing industries are in the past. and
the 100000 coal miners OF the coun'
try are back at work.
| our TepTSSen nldllNtS IN We" E-HS
land have advised me that in tn,
textile workers strike settlement:
are rapidly enabling the mills to re.
sumo operations. These three grea'
industrial disputes have been tbs
only hindrances to the nation in it:
rapid recovery from the industrial
depression which We faced a yea,
ago. With them out Of the way
progress toward prosperity will b'
swift and sure"
Few Disputes Remain.
To-day there are fewer strik e:
in America than there have beer
in years. The Commissioners of
Cancellation of the Department o.
Labor are using their good office:
in only thirty-four penuing indus
trial disputes involving some $4,000
mcr. ,Of these cases strikes have
been withheld in fourteen pending
our mediatory efforts.
The American Workman faces :
period Of plentiful employment. w,
have put back to work the millions
of Idle employees who were seekin-
Jobs / year ago. We have sue
cecde1 in avoiding Il drastic rcduc
tion IN the high wages which "b
! idllltu ntloEe Nllf per lsotl VI hSpA -
sion and We have kept the genera
wage leve' within few percent
of what il was at its highest.
Let us trust that American en-
ployers and American employees will
find the means to avoid this futil,
appeal to force in their relations
and will join in earnest CO-oner atior
Tor the march to prosperity which
lies inst ahead