Show I UNTiPRAY r 1 THBUHT 1 i I Compulsory Arbitration I Mr J A llobson a welMcnown English Eng-lish economist who ig now on a visit the prob to the Unllcd States discusses I ability of Industrial communities eventually even-tually having recourse to Compulaory taly Arbitration In disputes between employers em-ployers unil employees In nn able article ar-ticle In the November number of the North American Kovlcw Ho assumes that few will now support the view that lhll public has no right to Interfere In I a iiuarrel between capital and labor and he inquire whether compulsory arbitration hlCllr bitration Is I really practicable Thht question he answers by pointing to the operation of the law enacted In ew oper Zealand some rears ago which Its frli > nd8 contend has been entirely successful suc-cessful In averting strikes nnd lubor nerln he Intimates that the labor unions though now opposed to compulsory arbitration may bo ex peeled to move In favor of It when they realize their Impotence In fighting with their small ilnahdal reserve against indefinitely large reserves of powerful federations of employers But It Is even more likely that the public which such a will call for the roller measure would Imply Mr Hobson says Though It scorns possible that In Great Brllain If not In America a I genuine Impetus In favor of compulsory arbitration as a meanr of Having the waste of war may como from the side or oC the producers It 15 far more probable prob-able that It will arise from the revolt of the public InIts capacity of consumer con-sumer 1 Just In proportion as combinations to obtain effective of capital so develop aa I fective control of certain fundamental the Industries engaged In supplying necessaries cmnlc Ifa to the consuming public their chronic power to tax this public by raising prices I > will be n continual con-tinual Irritant this Irritation will bet be-t fanned Into exasperation by the spasmodic spas-modic resistance of the employees oC the combination to oppression or elso 1 by an attempt on the part of the employees I em-ployees to coerce the combination Into letting them go halves In milking the I public cow a policy which will periodically peri-odically lead to strikes or lockouts As concentration of capital fastens Itself more firmly iipon a larger number of I the great routine Industries these crises will be likely to be more frequent Each when Jt occurs will be a sharp I lesson Iii the essentially social character char-acter of private Industries and no theoretic objections to socialism will I In the long run keep the consuming public from Insisting that Its security and convenience shall be safeguarded by whatever remedies arc needed to protect I against stoppages of Industries ducing Indus-tries due Interests to faction fights of rival pro |