Evening star., 1922-06-28
Existing and Impending Labor
Troubles Condemned.

Existing and impending labor dis
turbances generally are condemned
by the editors of the country in dis
cussing possibilities Of the decisions
already made. and those TO come. Of
the Railway Labor Board disrupting
the communications OF the country.
The very fact that the coal strike
was so long looked on with indiffer-
ence is held up as an example OF why
labor and capital may have been de-
ceived into believing that the public
is too concerned with its own i'm
mediate affairs to trouble about in
convenience. more or less, which
would follow any serious hampering
of the freight and passenger traf1ic
Of the country. The editors insist
that new labor disturbances now Will
find the public gravely interested and
ready to demand that the responsible
ity be fixed and those responsible
punished.
"The government is bound to main
tain the operation of trains. the st.
Louis Globe Democrat points out.
"And in such a strike public opinion
ment." The wage board. however:
the Decatur Herald thinks. instead
of weighing evidence. acted upon IN
formation presented by only one
party to the suit. The serious effect
e Of the hasty action is that the CON
in the principle Of arbitration has
'been given a body blow. 1t is going
TO he more diff1cult in the future 10
nersuade unions that think they have
a grievance to submit to peaceiul ar
.bitratIon rather than strike The
Emporia- Gazette also thinks they
have q kick coming.
The living wage was to be guaran-
teed to the men at the bottom OF the
railroad industry. This guarantee was
a contract. When we talk SO silply
about burying the hatchet IN industry
we have buried the hatchet in the
neck of labor"
Recause the representatives of the
nublic ON the board voted for the re-
auctions ordered to date, the Bangor
Commercial is convinced. that tne
festants and 1t declares that we see
NO good reason to believe that the
union leaders will reach the conciu-
sion that strike Is more nkely 10
win now. than 1t was last faH, wnen
the union men decided that it was not
fes.ibie to strike against public opin-
ion and the government" This ike
wise is the view Of the Roanoke
zines, which Insists that "a trans
nortation strike Of any conslderabie
proportions at the present time woulo
deal q disastrous blow TO returnns
nrosperity and no class of workers
would feel the blow more keenly than
those responsible for It,"
The fact that there has been no
decision on the wage question az
,fecting many of the other orancnes
~ railroad labor is beneficial to the
public the Cleveland pian ~ neales .hs
hoerd continues to hear the succes-
sive demands for wage reductions
tn.re will probably. be dissatisfaction
with It's rulings. Fortunately, how,
ever. the grievances OF the ssverai
groups and Classes of labor WIN fao. no.
ali are men Of reason and the ma
;nritv are looking for nothing more
than 4 fair ad3ustment" In the
svent Of the public being seriously
afrected by a railway strike. the
socialistic New York Gall declare. a
he tsu followed BY the use of the Army,
az in the case Of the breaking of the
miners' strike by the Wilson adfnin-
istrafion. In other words, the work.
srs have the right to strike, but II
they do the federal power .is likely
to intervene TO Gsenk II: 1i.horga hor na.r .rs
are not binding! II the worksrs
could pawn :snarisn sas,r ,nsy weuia % M
mnnh to the good" The board can
NOT however. b asked to, Yreverse
;tsslf. the chicago Daily News. says,
:hecause others draw inferences dff-
ferent than its own In a case IN
which the relevant considerattons 70
he taken into account are many and
far from simple. If the board has
overlooked important facts these
facts should be made the basiss Of IN
Application for . rshsAring, Then.
after all, the Asbury Park Press
points out, the reductions ~ most
e0ualed the drop in this COST Of iiv-
inr: and. 1t 10 TO be remembered that
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