Show NEED OP today is set as the date on the steel workers in the east are to ilay down their tools in a contest with the billion dollar steel trust the conflict promises to be the greatest gle ever witnessed between capital and labor and one which will the present prosperity and leave ruin in homes of millions two such mighty forces should not be allowed to clash and rend each other to the death the arbitrator backed by the majesty of the law should stop in and say gentlemen you both are immovable demands you seem to be equally inspired with the justness of your cause but neither one Is capable of passing judgment on the other and society demands that inasmuch as innocent parties are endangered and society as a whole Is threatened you submit your contentions to an impartial judge whose decree you must abbey an arbitrator thus armed with authority to enforce respect for his commands would lift from labor a heavy burden while guaranteeing to capital a fair and impartial hearing and a just decision without a judge to arbitrate their capital becomes haughty and labor desperate and when the two come together in combat the blows struck leave deep scars which years cannot efface alt is all wrong civilized men act like terba rians in this matter when men in anger strike at each other with bare fists the law halts the belligerents lige rents and drags them before an arbitrator bi who hears their stories and passes judgment that is one of the distinguishing traits between the civil ased and uncivilized but when two grants such th esteel trust and the amalgamated association declare war and proceed to damage ach other with greater effectiveness than two men can i doln jury to ona another by a standup stand up an d knockdown knock down fight the law remains an fn negation and the people in tha great arena shout approval as tearful blows are struck when shall we sufficiently enlightened to apply to the struggles r of capital and labor the same laws 0 order and equality which are en forced in everyday every day affairs |