The Owosso times., 1922-09-22

I railroad boards. Negotiations could
| be successfully carried on and dis
puted questions settled if approached
in good faith"
IL Earring on the motion to have
L the strike injunction obtained
by Attorney General Daugherty
changed into preliminary restraining
order until trial began last week
before Federal Judge Wilkerson in
Chicago, and the attorney general an
nOunced that it would proceed despite
the partial agreements reached. The
temporary injunction was extended
ten days, but the court warned the
government forces ii would not be
further extended. The government
presented many thousands of afiidavts
telling 'of acts of violence and threats
and other circumstances, all tending
to prove its theory that conspiracy
existed, which in effect obstructed in
terstate commerce.
Mr.. Daugherty's determination to
press the case to q decision is based
on his belief that the principles at
stake are more important than any
immediate issue or effect The injunc-
ton, he thinks, if granted beyond the
ten days now fixed by the court, will
not only protect the workers who have
taken places of strikers on roads not
in the settlement, but will reach the
question of responsibility of union
leaders for acts of violence.
ID RESIDENT HARDING and Secre-
tary of Labor Davis were greatly
pleased by the news of the partial
strike settlement. The secretary said:
American industry has overcome
the last obstacle in the way Of the
greatest economic revival the nation
has ever known. With the settlement
of the strike on many of the trunk line
railways assured, the whole Industrial
machinery of the country is ready for
a forward movement unprecedented in
our economic history.
"The disturbances in the bituminOus
and anthracite coal mining industries
are in the past, and the 100000 coal
miners Of the country are back at
work. Our representatives in New
England have advised me that in the
rapidly enabling the mills to resume
operations.
"These three great Industrial dis
putes have been the only hindrances
to the nation In its rapid recovery from
the industrial depression which we
faced year ago.. With them out of
the way progress toward prosperity
will be swift and sure"
TT is true, as Mr.. Davis says, that
the disturbances in the coal mining
industry are ended, but the disturb
ances In the minds Of the consumers
of coal are just beginning. The deal
ers, greedy, unscrupulous and con-
scienceless, are demanding exorbitant
prices for coal and the people are wall
ing, with little prospect of relief ex-
cept In some states where the authori-
ties have both the power and the will
to check the profiteering. Meanwhile
the congressional conferees have been
disputing over the Cummins- Winslow
coal distribution and price control bill,
disagreeing as to its application to in
trastate as well as interstate ship
ments. Henry Ford is the most vocifer-
Gus of the big coal consumers, and ac-
cording to the latest reports he had not
altered his intention to shut down the
Ford plants. He charges that the inter
state commerce commission, through
Its control over empty coal cars, "is
playing into the hands Of coal prof
iteers under guise of regulations for
the public good" and adds: "The
same interests which own the public
utilities, railroads and mines are using
the commission as part of their scheme
to fleece the public, and the scheme is
so simple that nobody sees it."
CONSIDERABLY battered by results
~ In recent primaries, the "old
guard" of the Republican party re-
sumed It's smiling appearance last
week after the primary elections were
held In Massachusetts,, Michigan and
Washington. Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge won over Joseph Walker by a
three to one vote, and will have to
contest the election with William A.
CASTOR, who defeated Sherman l..
Whipple for the Democratic nomina-
tion. Senator Townsend of Michigan,
who was opposed by three candidates,
won his denomination by a plurality
of about 25,000--a notable victory
since he was hampered by the issue
Of "Newberryism." Out In Washington