New Britain herald., 1922-09-27
ROOT HAS PRA|S! E.
 FOR PRES. HAE a:s,;;;$: ~; 4;; President, He Claims, Has Put
 an End to Autocracy ASKS LAW AGAINST STRIKES
In Address Before State Convention Temporary Chairman Expresses Hope That Republican Congress Will Take Action.

Albany, Sept. 27 - Early adoption by the republican congress of laws al once prohibiting strikes which "cut of to the life of the community" anc at the same time protecting the work mans liberty was predicted by Elihu Root. temporary chairman, in his ad dress before the republican state con- vention today
 Speaks of Coal Situation
 Touching on the recent rail and coal strikes Mir. Root said:
 We are all employers and labor CTS and the general public is apt to be impatient about strikes So long as strikes were contest between la borers and employers to secure for labor it's fair share of the new wealth which has come to mankind through invention and discovery and the ap- rlicaton of science and the art of or ganization, the sympathies of the Am erican public were with labor. When a strike becomes ap attempt to coerce the public into taking action by cut ting off the supply of food or service necessary to the life of the commun- ity am sure that public feeling goes the other way.
 Law Mentioned
 T think that in this country we are gradually approaching the point where the law of the land will provide for distinguishing between the two kinds of strikes and protecting the public against compulsion by threat of peril to life or of destruction to the ma- chinery of civilization. and at the same time protect the workman's lib- erty. to refuse to work and the work mans liberty to work. If we cannot come to that point then the American government of all the people by all the people for all the people will fail and few will rule the many. Per haps we are approaching that point as rapidly as is practicable and wise to attempt
 T am inclined to think that noth- ing could be better at this stage of perennial process of industrial adjust now been reached through the pa tience and sympathetic influence of the president That condition Is full and impartial investigation into the rights and wrongs upon which the re- cent strikes have rested. accompanied by clear and uncompromising de- claration by the president of the rule of law and liberty, which is to be ap. piled to the results of the investiga. tion"
 Five Things Most Needed
 Declaring that the five things most needed when President Harding took office were an ending of "the auto cratic method of government consent ed to for the purpose of carrying on the war; the abolition of the inn mense extravagant scale of expendi- ture established during the war; re- storation of normal industrial produc- ton; establishment of international peace and convaescence from the of feverish excitement incl dent to the war" MT. Root asserted the Harding administration had ac- complished all these.
 The president, he declared, put an end to autocracy by refusing to be an autocrat by selecting an able cabinet and being willing to take their advice and let them run their own depart ments-at the same time deciding in heXibly after taking counsel, on upon which the chief execu- tive was called to decide"