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Show TO SETTLE LABOR DISPUTES. Federal Body Should Fix Railway Rata and Waaee. Baton Itouge, La. Commenting on tho prospective railroad strlko for higher wages, tho Times says: Congress should pass an act at onco giving tho lntcrstato commerco commission com-mission authority to sottlo tho labor disputes. Just as It has tho right to Ox rutca. It is moro Important that tbo Inter-tnto Inter-tnto commerco commission havo tho right to fix wages nnd settlo disputes than It is that it havo tho right to dc-tormluo dc-tormluo freight rates and prohibit rebates. re-bates. Buslncsi can hobblo along under high freight rates. Death would follow fol-low a general railroad strike. Both tho railroads and tho railroad mnn may be able to withstand a strlko, but tho public cannot, Tho public Is not In a position to fnco a general strlko or tho railroads In tho country. Tho calamity Is too awful to contemplate. con-template. It would bo moro rrlghtful than n dozen Mexlcnu wars. It should not bo In tho power of a set of men to bring such n disaster to tho public. , Tho commission has tho right to say what tho railroads shall chargo for their service. This commission should given tho right to say what they J pay for the labor that it take? to perform this service. And it should be siren Mi acibccliy at once. . |