Show THEJNFEREST OF THE PUBLIC It has often been pointed out that the interest of the public In a labor strike though quite commonly Ignored Is In fact greater than the Interest of either I of the contending parties and it is to make that Interest felt an well as In the Interest of harmony and order that there is so much talk of compulsory arbitration ar-bitration This public Interest w swell s-well In evidence at the time of the great i anthracite coal strike It generally is i in evidence In all strikes though both strikers und those struclc against do their best to Ignore It In Colorado Just now It Is also In evidence and it is because be-cause it Is that Governor Peabody has decided to send troops to enforce order In the troubled regions The strikes there appear to be largely made up ors or-s strikes strikes In which the strikers have no grievance of their own but strike because some other unions in other places have struck And this Is the most unfair and oppressive oppres-sive of all strikes and one from which the public suffers the most and has the least sympathy with But the way the public Is imposed upon by reason of strikes is most glaringly glar-ingly Illustrated by the course of the laundrymen In Chicago Besides suffering suf-fering the loss und Inconvenience entailed en-tailed by the strike during the time when It was In effect the public Is now called on to maIm good the losses of the laundrymen while the strike was on The price to the customer of work in the laundries has been raised twenty five per cent It only needs that the workmen In the laundry be treated In the same generous way and another raise of a similar amount made for them for the public to get the full benefit of the new combination between labor and capital that Ray Stannard Baker declares Is forming In Chicago and is already partly effective And Jones he pays do freight every time without fall |