Show TALKS OF STRIKES The engineers on the western roads arc are now taking a strike vote for the purpose of authorizing their leaders to declare a strike if the heads of the big railroads persist in refusing their then demands for forI I 1 increased wages j It would wOl d be he a n most disastrous clash the strike of the army of I engineers as business of every overy description would suffer These threatened industrial upsets remind us that this country Is far behind New Now Zealand and other countries where compulsory arbitration makes strikes impossible The rights of labor should be so well defined in law that an em employer emI could not escape fairly compensating his and on I the other hand employers should be given ample protection against I unreasonable demands I This country is gradually working out these great economic and industrial questions but the progress is extremely slow and at times unpromising yet there is reason to hope that at a not very distant time a most satisfactory solution will be reached |