The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-11-11

The note of impatience by the public of Sar Francisco with the strike as reflected yesterday: dispatches probably is the best indication tha action will have to be taken shortly by the two oppos ing factions toward settlement public sentiment vii defeat the of both the employers and the ployees. The public pays and it is paying terrfcaly in this tie-up. The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce paints a graphic word picture of the publics part in the maritime dispute when it says
 Regardless of which side is right and which i is wrong the fact remains that every big strike means a loss not only to those directly in- volved but to the general public The public by far the most important faction. is the innocent sufferer and the time will most certainly come when the public will be rep resented by potent element than a group pleading for arbitration but getting nowhere
 If the maritime strike runs it's course both sides in the dispute will suffer serious loss Considering the matter locally Seattle a great seaport may be paralyzed for months and it's people suffer as result of a strike that could well have been prevented if the so-caed labor relations board-in this case the mari time commssion-spoke little louder and carried bigger stick.
 Let keep the strike record in America straight Fifty years and more ago strikes and lockouts being called in this try. Often the strikers were wrong; often the employers were wrong but in every the public eventually paid the bill Why shouldn't the public have defender-forceful representation in every controversy pregnant with the possibility of costly strike?
 All lines of business are effected when shipping along the entire Pacific coast is halted and hundreds of vessels are tied up at piers A waste that is almost criminal suits. And who pays the bill in the end? Does anyone doubt who pays that bill? The public pays and thus far. it has had pitifully weak voice when it sits in between the two factions damnng each other
 Surely, in half century should have found of preventing such stupid spectacle now observe in the maritime strike If the strike runs its course it may mean privation and Christmas for thou sands of strikers and their families And when the matter is finally adjusted the bill must be paid and who besides the third and innocent party, the public-pays?
 Some day hot-headed employees and en- poyers will turn more attentive at the conference table to the words of representa- tives of the public because they will know that the public is well aware of the losses that may be incurred and that the public does not intend to be put to the resultant inconveni- ence and expense of needless strikes
 Every day the public knows it is paying little more Here in Alaska it is brought home to us ir no uncertain manner when We have to spread tho butter little thinner and if no dispensation ii made for Alaska will have to quit spreading butter at all There will be butter. And regardless will be many other things will have to get alonl without. The public is paying from Seward to Sal Diego and that public is getting little more i'm patient from day to day. Eventually its pressur will be so great that settlement will be reached. the meantime the shpowners and unions passin up all their opportunities for winning public senti ment by refusing to bargain