Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-01 | Page 6 | Time for Settlement

TIME FOR SETTLEMENT. Radicalism is tho same the world over. Trotzky in Petrograd declaring that tho success of the social revolution depends upon united efforts by tho proletariat in all nations; Sirolle, the French syndicalist, reminding Frenchmen French-men that tho Russian revolution began in an attack on the parliament buildings build-ings by one hundred sailors; Fitzpat-rick Fitzpat-rick in Chicago asserting that the coal striko will givo labor a chance to "do tMnga" a sinister remark Howat in Kansas challenging the government to go ahead with its preparations to stop tho coal strike and "see where it will get off" all illustrate the same spirit. Nor is tho acting president of the coal miners' union in bettor light in his statement that President Wilson, in his efforts to prevent a strike which will entail suffering by millions, to force a settlement of a dispute to the advantago of four hundred thousand workers, is "usurping" his powers and joining hands with the oppressors of labor. That radicals have created much of the industrial turmoil which now afflicts af-flicts this nation cannot be questioned. Unauthorized strikes afford abundant evidence on that score. The difference between the revolutionary activities which foment industrial troubles to advance ad-vance revolutionary notions of government govern-ment and social relations and tho activities ac-tivities which embrace bomb manufacture manufac-ture and terrorist plots Jis the difference differ-ence of degree only. There are strikes which can bo classed as tho results of conspiracy as clearly defined as the plottings which take place in cellars frequented by the evangels of anarchy. The terrorists who concoct their plots in subterranean hiding places can be ferreted out and punished and this is being done and alien mischief makers can bo hunted down and deported and there is an ever-growing demand that this be done, congress taking cognizance cog-nizance of public impatience on this score. But the false Leaders of honest organized labor have yet to bo called to account. Organized labor still faces the duty of purging its ranks of tho "borers from within." The national congress of farmers in session in Hagerstpwn, Md., warns the workers that present problems confronting confront-ing industry will not be solved lay, a program which contemplates increased wages while limiting tho production of necessary supplies. Shortened work days involve shortened productivity. This program, tho farmers declare, fits in admirably with that of the profiteer. And there is no disputing the truth of that statement. The country is about to be plunged into one of the greatest strikes in its history, and still other strikes are in process of incubation. Apparently the nation is approaching the moment when the relative rights of conflicting groups and the public at large must be determined deter-mined by a grim and unrelenting struggle. An adjustment of some sort must ensuo. And perhaps this is as good a time as 'any to set about having that settlement.