The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-24

are asking Mr.. Harding at this time
is for him to make some concrete
start towards furnishing the country
with the relief it needs by way of
coal and cars to handle the crop. If
he and his cabinet cannot come to the
point with the operators and laborers,
then let the government take drastic
measures to run the trains until the
employers and employees themselves
get together and end their difference.
The public should not be held up for
weeks and months while congress is
devising remedial legislation. There
is too much pussy footing and too lit
tie action on the part of the govern
ment to relieve situation that is be-
coming too acute for comfort. Here
are some Of the points of the presi-
dents message to congress, which we
consider rather conciliatory than that
of frmness:
| The declaration that the executive
is resolved to maintain transportation
and the right Of men to work.
Immediate creation of federal coal
agency with big revolving fund to
purchase huge amounts Of coal for in
terstate shipment so as to check pro-
fteering.
Establishment of a federal coal
commission to make complete investi-
cation of the industry SO as to pre-
vent another coal strike next April.
Enactment of legislation later to
give the railroad labor board power
to enforce it's DEGREES.
Broader powers of the federal gov
eminent, so that it may punish those
responsible for such outbreaks of vio-
lence as the Herrin ''butchery." This
would be done by giving the federal
government the right to protect ali
ems.
Warning that the law against con-
spiracies to restrain interstate COM
| merce and other statutes be strictly
enforced.
Denunciation of the move by some
employers to crush labor unions.
"The deterioration Of locomotives
and the noncompliance with safety
requirements of the law are threaten
ing the breakdown of transporta-
tion."
The Courier News this morning is
trying in it's editorial columns to
smoke Gov. Nestos out and have him
declare himself in favor of supporting
Frazier for the United States senate
on the grounds that the latter is the
republican nominee, and the en-. is
very much peeved because the COVER
nor has not come out with such a
statement. It is really too bad that
the en-. gets so worked up over Mr..
Nestos. In the first place the Cour-
ier-News and it's bunch Of state
wreckers did not support Nestos for
denomination at the June primaries
and he is under no obligation to
them. In the second place Frazier is
not recognized as regular republi-
can and does not represent either in
theory or practice the republican par
ty of North Dakota-he is not re-
publican, he is a socialist. The gov
ernor should waste just enough time
to write note to the Fargo editor
and tell him to go falls into the lake
as he is under no obligation to them
politically or otherwise. Mr.. Nestos
was nominated for second term as
governor Of the state by those indie
pendent republicans and democrats
who believe in the principles of right
government and there should be no
equivocation in the answer to the
en-. query. Make it snappy, COVER
nor, just the one word-NO.
Some of our ardent democratic
friends are taking a poke at Presi-
dent Harding because he has not tax
en- over the mines and railroads. The
president has been moving cautiously
but surely and as result the coal
strike has been settled by and through
his help and counsel without very
much real trouble, the disorders out
side of the one horrible happening at
Herrin being few and far between.
Had he taken over the mines he might
have caused considerable more trou-
BILE. The railroad situation is grave,
h11t tho t1Uofa ctions aro ho1d;pp oo,