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Show workers to free themselves from the bonds that had held them. Now, it is more dificult. Like the lords of the feudal ages, the modern labor leaders hold the power of life, or death, over their followers, for they control the means by which they have their livings, thanks to the Wagner Act. ' The course the government is pursuing gives little lit-tle evidence of strength, but perhaps the administration administra-tion accepts 'at par that which Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, said 2,5000 years ago : "So long as I love calm, the people will right themselves." , The Somerset (Pcnna.) Daily American (Republican) says: The policy of the government with respect to the numerous strikes that afflict the Republic seems to be what President Woodrow Wilson was in the habit of calling 'watchful waiting." While the chief labor groups seem to have adopted similar programs for obtaining their objectives, objec-tives, the jealousy manifested by one or another group forecasts failure, or else, struggle for the mastery mas-tery that will in the end result in failure. The Wagner Act forbids any such solution of the problem as was possible at the close of the first World War. Then, when industry lagged under the blows ad-ministed ad-ministed by labor chieftains, it was possible for the |