The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-14
UNCLE TEDs BEDTIME STORIES
The Public Is Heard FrOm-Law and
Order First. Selfishness Must
Be Set Aside

Be Set Aside
~ don't know much about it but
do know from all I've heard and read /
that every time there is strike of
any kind there is one class of people
who suffer no matter what the results
are" It was Jack speaking again af-
ter having had little argument with
Freddie, who always seems to start
him going. ~
"Who is that?" asked Ruth. ]
"THE PUBLICw answered Jack
with bang. ever since the govern
ment from Washington obtained what
the newspapers says is temporary
injunction which is to keep the rail-
road shopmen who have been on strike
for so long time from interfering
in any way with the operation of the
railroads, some Of the boys have been
sore as can be because they don't like
it,"
"Talking about the big government
court order suppose" said Uncle
Ted, who had just appeared on the
scene. "Well, it sure has caused some
excitement and Pm mighty glad it has.
1t was time that everybody in this
country realized that the government
comes first. That no one class can
make it impossible for all the people
to live and pursue their work and
happiness. 1 am not talking about
the striking shopmen alone. They
have a right to quit but they have no
right to go further and interfere with
the trains which must carry mail and
food, not to mention passengers. The
important phase Of this whole matter,
to me, is the fact that there are many
leaders who seem to think that the
unions should hold themselves above
the law when dealing with this in
junction. They do not represent the
whole unions but they do great dam
age to the workingman's cause be-
cause their radical statements and &C.
tons are heard and seen while the
conservative patriotic workingman
who thinks Of the nation as a whole
first is not seen or heard.
81 am certainly disappointed, to say
the least, in Samuel Gompers, head
of the American Federation of Labor
who didn't wait minute to issue a
statement after the injunction order
was sent out. He holds that the order
is illegal, calls the Attorney General
the attorney of the railroad compa-
MES and from everything he said il
is plain that he will encourage labor
to follow course of defiance and con.
tinued battle so far as the Federal
governments order is concerned
; While such leaders as Mr.. Gompers
are going along dangerous paths II
| urging defiance of the government!
, order, there is another class Of people
} who are speaking in no mistaken
terms. That cl ass is the class tt
, which Jack referred as / came int
/ the room. The PUBLIC has spokel
E in this matter. From every section O.
, the country they are upholding tn
> Harding administration in the onl!
step which could have been taken j,
, this serious trouble. Our President i
5 a peace-loving man, hard and siren
E uous worker. All day Labor Day
when others of his office were ava.
t enjoying the holiday, he stayed at hi
desk working and trying to brin,
= about result in these matters whicl
: shall mean the best for the most O
all the people whom he is serving a
e the head of this great country. sal
n that the Public had spoken in thi
? matter. There is no doubt Of that /
e view of the thousands of message
h that have been pouring into Washing
$ ton ever since the injunction step wa
taken.
g "You see, kiddies, the America
II people are true lovers of liberty. The
d are raised to it.. The country wa
built on it.. They can not stand b
and agree to afew people don1inatin
IS any situation. Before everything els
there must be law and order, else "
j. would find our great country turnin
d to the long, hard and evil road, whic
has been travelled by Russia of rece1
n years, once one Of the most powerf'
a and richest countries on the globe.
% Samuel Gompers in his Labor Da
# statement said, among other thing
% that organized labor had few outsie
its own ranks who sympathize wit
" them in their determination to emal
f. cipate mankind. This is not true,
+ course. There is a lack of symp&tE
to all right but it is because the Amer
u r ~ =