Show WilY WHY NOT ARBITRATE On Saturday On last the twelfth week of the great anthracite coal strike closed A A. reliable correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- gives it as his opinion that the strikers are abundantly able to go on with the strike indefinitely They are hard hardy brave bra men with wives and children of like stamina They will live on husks but they will not submit to what they believe to be injustice This determination seems to be stronger among the Huns Inns and Poles than among the English and Ameri Amri- cans But there is a powerful link of union among all s R in the Penns Pennsylvania hanla mines and the strikers are arc certainly not weakening through internal internal in in- dissensions diE The railway presidents are arc equally firm They declare there is nothing to arbi arbi- But there is the whole issue in the contro conto ers versy Any two litigants who should maintain Bu such h han an attitude toward a a. property dispute would probably probably probo ably come to blows or shotguns It is because there is a tribunal of appeal in the shape of a law court that one or the other goes mb into a a. suit to show the theother theother theother other litigant who is rl right ht There should be such a a. tribunal t to arbitrate these labor differences with punitive and executive powers back of it If the coal strikers were honest bonest in their allegations of injustice injustice in in- justice they could go before the arbitration board prove pro their case and force the arbitration whether the railroads and mine owners liked it or not If the latter were the aggrieved parties they could force the strikers to behave themselves I es or take punishment punishment pun pun- for misbehavior The general public is the chief and most important s sufferer by the anthracite coal troubles The buyers huyers of coal will pay about two prices for the black winter It is time to inaugurate a new order of things w |