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Show ROOT PREDICTS I STRIKE CONTROL Threats Against Public Food ' and Service May Be Curbed ALBANY, N Y Sept. 21. Early adoption by the Republican congress of laws at once prohibiting strikes which "cut off the supply of food or service necessary to the fe of tho community and at the name time pro- , teet the workman's liberty," was predicted pre-dicted by Kllnu Root. temporary chairman, In his address at the Republican Re-publican state convention today. Touching on the recent rail and ' coal .strlk- H. Mr Root said: "We are all employers and laborers' and th- general public Is apt to bo 1 Impatient about strikes So long as strikes were u contest between la- borers and employers to secure for labor its fair share of the new wealth i which has como to mankind through Invention and discovery and appllca-' tlon of science and the art of o'rgani- cation, the sympathies of the Amerl- 1 can public were with labor When a strike becomes an attempt to coercv the public Into taking action by cutting cut-ting eff the supply of food or servlcu necessary to the life of the community, commun-ity, I am sure that public feeling goes the other way. TWO KINDS OF STRIKES. I think that In this country we are gradually approaching the point where th.. law ot the land will provide for ilistin-ulhipg between the two kinds of strikes, and protecting the public against compulsion by threat of peril, to life or of destruction to the ma- ' chlnery of civilization and at the same time protect the workman s liberty' to refuse to work ancl the workman's) liberty to work. "I am Inclined to think that noth- I Inir could be better at this stage of I the perennial process of Industrial ad- justnunt than th'- condition which has. now been reached through the pat-I lente and sympathetic Influence of tho president. That condition is full and impartial Investigation Into the rights and wrongs upon which the recent i strikes have rested, accompanied by I a clear and uncompromising declar-1 atlon by the president of the rule of law and liberty which Is to be applied to the results of the Investigation " AOS I ETV FM FN T S CLAIM KD. Declaring that the rivo things most; needed when President Harding took office were an ending of "the autocratic auto-cratic method of government consented consent-ed for tho purpose of carrying on the ' war, abolition of the Immensely ex- 1 travagant scale of expenditures established estab-lished during the war, restoration of normal Industrial productions, establishment estab-lishment of international peace and convalescing from the condition of feverish fev-erish excitement incident to th war. " Mr. Root asserted the Harding administration ad-ministration had accomplished all these. The president, he declared, "put an end to the autocracy by refusing to i be an autocrat, by selecting an ab'.e cabinst and being willing to take their advice and let them run their own departments at the same time deciding Inflexibly after taking coun- J SSl, on matters upon which the chief executive wns called to decide." si p IKK ACTS PRAISED. Mr. Root referred to the president's handling of the rail and coal strikes as evidences of his work In bringing the nation back to normal Industrial conditions, and cited the five-power! conferences at Washington as evidences evi-dences of his skill as a statesman In : international affairs. "The fifth thing 1 mentioned," he continued, "was our own nerve recovery. re-covery. And behold, while our government gov-ernment has been going on In Its hon- BSt, sincere and kindly way reconciling reconcil-ing difficulties and re-establishing A I sound conduct of government and llfo I we find ourselves cured." |