Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-05
BY FREDERIC I. HAsKIN

the Industrial world once INDUCED in
a TRADE against labor unions in gen
eral and labor leaders in particular.
be was 80 vitriOlic and so sweeping
in his denunciation that one of his
hearers finally asked him if it were
possible that there were no good men
among labor leaders. Profoundly
serious and, with measured words the
captain of industry replied: THE only
good Indian is a dead Indian!"
On the other hand, a man who has
been at the head of one of the largest
Of the labor unions declared within
the last few days that the newspa-
: : pers and press associations OF the
country were in a virtual conspiracy
to ~misrepresent labor's cause to the
public and were constantly distort-
ing the news in order to create Il pop
ular sentiment adverse to labor and
to the unions.
If anything happens that is favor
able to us you never see a word
about it in the papers," he said. The
press associations won't carry the
story and the papers won't print it,"
All employers and all leaders of%la-
Dor are not so blindly %prejudiced as
thee two men,, otherwise the only
way capital and labor would ever be
brought together would be in a head
on collision. Unfortunately, however,
these two men are multiplied many
times in the industrial world, there
ny adding UNNECESSARILY to the diff
culties of those who seek to preserve
peace or to reconcile differences once
open conflict has been precipitated.
Everyone who has undertaken the
role of mediator or arbitrator in a la
o dispute knows only too we'll thai
there are two sides to every case, and
that neither side has q monopoly OF
right or of virtue. In the present
railroad controversy, for instance, en-
phasis is frequently laid on the fact
that b shop men refused to abide
by a decision or order of the boarc
came from the managerial side wher
certain railroads undertook arbitrar.
twhile the board mad ruled that sucf
action should not be taken pendins
its hearing and determination of thu
question. Later other roads ignored
or violated other rulings or decision,
of the board.
All who discuss this rupture in the
relations of railroaL management ant
WORKERS should also know that there
1s nothing in the law that require,
either side to accept or to abide b,
decisions of the labor board.
Again. in the case of the coal
strike, those who criticize the min.
ers for not accepting President Hard,
1ngs peace proposal should under.
stand that as matters stood the min.
ers had practically. won their strike
and had good reasons for not want
Ing to take the chance of having tn.
fruits of victory taken away from
them by an arbitration commission
They had fought a long and tryinf
fight and surely were entitled to al
\ OF whatever success it had brought
to them. -
At the same time, the friends O
the miners should understand that 4
the workers had been conceded every
thing they were striking fora ma
ional agreement the old wage scale
and the old working rules-the,
would be no better off than they wer,
!! prior to April /, fol, nothing woult
have been done to cure the unecono
mic conditions If the coal ind stry
Without sterilization of the industr.
and without some solution Of tn
problem of the .non-union districts
the lot of the union miner will neye
be a satisfactory one:.3f
Thus the ease is made for toleranc,
OF h rights and opinions of, others ii
times OF open conflict between work
ers and their employers, and for tn,
development of an intelligent publ,
'opinion that can be. brought to bea;
when needed. &
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
Il g. Is the lame of Alan Dale. tn,
dramatic critic. real or assumed
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j. Alan Dale Is the pseudonym o