Arizona republican., 1922-01-10

resentatve of labor Of sovetism. 1t of the
many buttinsky organizations which makes itself
representative of what conceves to be opposed
things as they AS further proof of the error
of the press in industrial matters the Bureau of Re-
search refers to the report Of the selfinvited Com
mission Of Inquiry of the Interchurch World Move
ment the steel strike the commission having
cerained that the attitude press was that
strike buster"
There is further cited the attack upon and de-
structon by the striking carmen OF Denver of the
plant of the Denver Post in fit of what the Bureau
seems to regard righteous indignation.
Now for the remedy: Newspaper departments
Of labor departmentalzed the same as sporting de-
partments and financial and political departments,
with specially trained reporters and editors separate
morgue and all technical equipment.
newspaper Industrial department much Of
the time would be running empty so much of the
time that it would be profitable to maintain it.
Likewise newspapers could not profitably maintain
specially equipped flood earthquake and tornado de-
partments News properly coming under such de-
partments therefore handled in a general news
department by, specially but highly trained
all round men.
The into which the Bureau Of Industrial
Research, Upton Sinclair the Interchurch World
Movement commission have fallen, their structures
upon the Associated Press and the newspapers for
their handling OF news in industrial disputes is in
the assumption these disputes concern only capi
tai and labor. There was a time when that view
quite general; when capital owned or controlled
many newspapers and when reports were one sided.
But that view longer obtains. There are yet we
suppose, newspapers but not many, under So
called capalisc control and there are other under
demagogic political control.
But to the credit Of the great body of the press
it be said it is for neither capital nor labor 1t
represents great third party in industrial disputes
party that is likely to be right than either
capital laborthe great public the chief sufferer
in great ndustria disturbances. Sometimes labor is
right and capital, wrong. More often both are wrong
The public cannot be wrong
The steel strike and the attitude OF the press at
that time seems to have provoked the Bureau of
dustria Researches crusade for the reformation of
the press which generally in representing the public
condemned the strike. unwarranted disturbance
of conditions at a critical period
The strike not made avowedly to secure an
Improvement of wage working conditions. 1t was
boldly proclaimed as assault the chief citadel
of the 'open shop" 1t to the public as if two
enemies had out into crowded thoroughfare to
shoot out" purely personal sentimental griev-
ance with possible resultant damage to the public
which had interest in the fight between the open
shop and the "cosed shop"
The strikers were, for the most part foreigners
The leader of l. w. W. antecedents and
of supposed bolshevist tendencies. In these circum
stances the public and the press naturally withheld
expressions OF sympathy with the strikers And it
this attitude of the press that upon the
structures of the commission, of the Interchurch
World Movement which disregarded all facts except
the fact that there strike, the righteousness Of
which only blindy assumed.
AT the time of the threatened country wide rail-
way strike few months ago, the attitude of the
press was slightly different. 1t presented the case
OF the public, but it condemned both the railways
and labor and called upon the government to exer-
else its authority prevent the strike in the first
instance and to restrain the railways from course
of provocation to strike. It's sympathy was with
neither the first second party the controversy
but wholly with the third party.
The press, if left to its own devices and judg-
ment, with rather clearer knowledge of its own
needs and the pubcs wishes than the interested
sders, either individual or in groups whose views
are either narrowed obscured, will work out its
own salvation.
The press is always open to suggestions. But it
is better able than outsiders to decide whether the
suggestions be made to fit in with the general
scheme. But the press being human resents
pertinent challenges"