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Show RAILROAD WORKERS CANNOT STRIKE. According to the railroad managers, the most significant paragraph in the supreme court decision on the Adam-son Adam-son law, is this: Employes of a public, service company, engaged in interstate commerce, cannot strike in concert con-cert That, right is necessarily surrendered when the men are engaged in public service. They are comparable to soldiers in the ranks, who, in the presence of enemies en-emies of this country, may not desert. Far-reaching may be this decisions as it brings the government closer to the final position of controlling the railroads When the government steps in to prescribe railroad rates, hours of service and wages, the time has arrived for nationalization of the roads, as advocated by Judge Lovett. The railroads are so necessary to the country, the government should not allow them to suffer from mismanagement misman-agement on the part of their owners or to be rendered inefficient by labor disturbances. This country is approaching the day when the government will be strongly paternal. oo |