Show BBEEDEN HAS A REMEDY Would Settle Strikes by Compulsory Arbitration AttorneyGeneral Erccdcn believes that the one thing needful to render labor troubles less damaging to the interests In-terests of the State and the people as a whole is a compulsory arbitration Jaw What right has a great corporation like the coal company to say that it has nothing to arbitrate asked the Gcn oral yesterday PUnt should be 1 matter mat-ter for the State Board of Arbitration Arbitra-tion to decide when it is brought Into question 1 there in nothing to arbitrate the board would quickly discover the fact and decide accordingly accord-ingly and then the question would be settled without the State being subjected sub-jected to a long struggle which does untold Injury to every Interest and practically every Individual In the Stat Conditions are no longer if they over were such that men or corporations corpora-tions engaged In Industries classed as public utilities can alt back and say Wo shall do what we please with our money There Is in this ago too much Interdependence of Individuals and corporations to admit of business being be-ing carried on upon that principle Con cerna engaged In these great industries expect to receive and do receive PItec Hon from the State the nature of their business requires that they be accorded < certain special privileges The prlvleGc public therefore la J Interested In the business at least to this xt ntthe public gives them the right to do business Would it be Just then for persons engaged in such business to soy by word or action We must make the terms absolutely upon which we shall do business Most assuredly not The employees may make demands which are unreasonable unrea-sonable that doeint nrguc that there is nothing to arbitrate The people as a whole that Is the State has rights In the premises I has the right to compel arbitration and thereby stop the Injury being done not only to the parlies directly Interested but to those Indirectly affected to whom the injury on the whole is really greatest This right should be enforced |