Show o v SETTING THE PACE San Francisco is the first bi big city to abolish boycotting and picketing and is going to be first to enact a mediation law The proposed mediation act does not deny the right to strike but suspends that right pending j ja a period for fullest investigation The whole business and industrial indus industrial trial activity of the state is affected affected affected af af- af- af by a strike on a railroad telegraph or r telephone system Arbitration and mediation h haVe ve won more f for r labor in Great Britain in the past ten yea years twice over than was accomplished accomplish accomplish- ed by strikes These principles are bound to become state and national laws and sooner the better for all in interests interests jn- jn of employed and employer employ employ- er alike The California la law provides for a board of mediators to reconcile rec rec- reconcile reconcile differences between opposing opposing opposing op op- op- op posing interests in harmony with public pubic opinion In Canada a a similar law enacted enact enact- ed in 1907 has resulted in compromising compromising compromising com com- promising ninety percent of the strikes lockouts without stopping work I American federation of Labor and organized labor in California I fight the principle of mediation I and md arbitration but it will win The principle involved is that public interest is greater than that of either p party to strike or lockout and uJ let t the people poop rule 1 |