Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-08
Delivers Legislative Advice
In Regular Message To
Congress Today.
URGES NEW LAWS
Saws there is no Just Reason That
Strikes Occur and Less Reason Tor
Delayed Settlement-Is Well Re
ceived.

Washington, D. g. Dec. S-Declar-
ing that the railway and the coal
strikes had no excuse for their be-
ginning and less justification for their
DELAY in settling, President Harding
recommended to the Congress legls-
lation which will prevent future
strikes, in his message upon the pc
ginning of the short session. The
way employees. The president de-
president declared that public
interest demands that am
le over shall be given the
railway labor board requiring that ITS
rulings be accepted by both parties.
NO man can be denied his right to
labor and how he chooses or cease to
labor when he so elects" the president
said. but. since the government as
sumes to safeguard his interest while
emploved in an essential public SER
vice. the security OF. society itself de-
mands his retirement from the SER
vice shall not be so timed and related
as to affect the obstruction OF that
service.
The president said in part:
II is four years since the World
War ended. but the inevitable read
iustment of the social and economic
order is not more than barely begun
There is no acceptance of pre-war
conditions anywhere in the world. In
very general way humanity har-
bors Individual wishes to go on with
war time compensations for produc-
ton, with pre-war requirements In eX-
penditure. In short, everyone speak
ing broadly, Graves readjustment for
everybody except himself, while there
can be no just and permanent read
iystment except when all participate.
The civilization which measured ITS
strength Of genius and the power OF
science and the resources OF indus-
tries. i'm addition to testing the limits
of man power and the endurance ana
heroism Of men and women-thaC
same civilization is brought to ITS
severest test in restoring tranquil
order and committing humanity to
the stable ways Of peace.
1T is no figure of speech TO say we
have come to the test of our clvlllza-
ton. The world has been passing
is today passing through a great
crisis The conduct of war itself IS
not more diffcu,t han the solution
Of the problem rrich necessarily
follow. ! am n. aaking at this
moment of IT,. am in its wider
aspect of world ablitation or Of
international relationships. The ref
erence is to our own social, financial,
and economic problems at home.
Had we escaped the coal and rail-
- l., "a,
their beginning and less justification
for their DELAYED settlement. we
should have done infinitely better.
But labor was insistent on holding to
the war heights. and needless forces
of reaction sought the pre-war levels,
and both were wrong. In the folly
of conflict our progress was hindered
and the heavy cost has not yet been
fully estimated. There can be neither
adjustment nor the penalty of the
failure to readjust in which all do not
somehow participate.
The railway strike accentuated the
difficulty of the American farmer. The
first distress of readiustment came
to the farmer, and IL will not be a re-
adjustment fitIto abide until he Is re-
jieyed. The distress brought to the
farmer does not affect him alone. Ag-
ricultura i'll fortune is a national Ill
fortune. That one-fourth of our popu
lation which produces the food of the
Republic and adds so largely to our
export commerce must participate IN
the good fortunes of the Nation, else
there is none worth retaining.
This Congress already has taken
cognizance Of the misfortune which
precinitatc defation brought to Am
erican agriculture. Your measures Of
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