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Show WHAT EDITORS SAY OF RAILWAY ISSUE Demand Peaceful Settlement of Wage Controversy. STRIKE MUST BE AVERTED. Almost Unanimously Nowipapera tVi-dorse tVi-dorse Propotalt of Railway Managers That Wage Question Be Settled by Interitate Commerce Commlttion or by Arbitration Under the Newlands Law. Chicago. The proposed strike by all railway train scrvlco employees In or-for or-for to secure a wago increase of $100.-100,000 $100.-100,000 n year Is condemned by newspaper news-paper editors throughout tho country. They declare such a strike wouUl be a public calamity and that it must be averted. Almost unanimously the editors indorse in-dorse tho proposals mado by the com-mlttco com-mlttco of railway managers to the leaders of the brotherhoods that the wago question be settled by the Interstate Inter-state commerce commission or by arbitration ar-bitration under tho Newlands law. Tho following extracts from newspaper news-paper editorials fairly reflect public sentiment on this most important Is- nun. Tho lntcrstato commerce commission commis-sion should be empowered to prevent tills threatened railroad strike. Writo to your congressman about It Chicago Tribune. The great public has more at stake than cither the railway stockholders or the railway employees. Davenport (la.) Times. The Interstate commerce commie-sion commie-sion represents tbo great public It was created for tho purpose of holding even the scales. Rocky Mountain News, Denver. . The trainmen should take prudent) thought Arbitration is their wise policy. pol-icy. Detroit Free Tress. Tho public will sunport any finding tho interstate commerce commission may make. Dallas (Tex.) News. Public opinion ought to havo re-en-forced the position of tho railroads long before now. Gnlveston News. The regulation of wages presents no more dlfflcultles than tho regulation of rates. Ilolyoke (Mass.) Transcript Tbo lntcrstato commcrco commission would certainly bo responsible If It permitted a strike to come. Minneapolis Minneap-olis Journal. iuo train crew unions nave no case which they arc willing to try In a court of arbitration or in the great court of public opinion.--Now -York Commercial. Tho controversy is not between the railways and their employees, but between be-tween the public and the railway em ployces. New York Globe. Tho men now seem to show rather a ' consciousness of tho weakness of their position than reliance upon its merits. New York Times. The interstate commerce commission cannot avoid regulating wages so long as it regulates rates. New York Tribune. Trib-une. Tho railroad brotherhoods are mistaken. mis-taken. There IS something to arbitrate. arbi-trate. New York World. Tho railway employees are plainly In the wrong mid should sense their mistake mis-take before they make a wot-so blunder. blun-der. Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern. Neither side could afford to take the position of demanding more than the interstate commerce commission would approve. Pittsburgh Dispatch. Tho railroad employees arc not suffering suf-fering such Intolerable wrongs that they cannot await the result of arbitration. arbi-tration. Portland Oregonlan. The greatness of the power for which the labor leaden aro seeking is the m.;v strougest argument why they should not havo It Railway Age Gazette. Ga-zette. The public Is as vitally interested in the' situation as tho railways or the employees. St Louis Globe-Democrat Either tho railroads are wrong or their employees aro. Any Just cause will stand Investigation. Jackson (Miss.) Clarton-Lcdgcr. This Is the tlmo when every American Ameri-can who loves his country should set nsldo his own schemes of aggrandizementKansas aggrandize-mentKansas City Journal. The United States government cannot can-not permit any strike that would tie up all tho railroads of tho country. Leslie's Weekly. It Is Just as true that organized labor may oppress the public Intolerably as that organized capital may do It-Lowell It-Lowell (Mass.) Citizen. Those who would suffer most from a tying up of tho nation's trafllc would get no vote on tho question of a strike -Lincoln (Neb.) Star. Ono thin1; It certain, the railroads, tho railroad employee and the Amerl tan people cannot afford such a strike Memphis AppeuL We think tho brotherhoods nre making mak-ing n mhtake In refusing arbitration., Capital must get Its living wngeas well as Inbor. Mllwnnkeo Free Press. RuKlness ran hobble along under high freight rates. Death would follow a general railroad strike. Raton Rouge (La.) Time' The American people do not believe there Is nir difference between the ronds and the employees that cannot be adjusted peaceably. Rloomlngton (Ill.t I'antngraph. The railroads have accepted the perfectly per-fectly reasonable and natural sugges-' sugges-' Hon that the wnge question bo settled . by arbitration. -Itoston Journal. I Why shoi'lri a vote be taken on a strike which the puhlle will neicr to-I to-I erateJ-St. Loola Post-Dispatch. |