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Show ARBITRATE I i The people of this country, and especially the law makers, should j take warning from the threatened railway strike and give prompt attention at-tention to the question of arbitration arbitra-tion of disputes between capital and labor. A great strike involving all of the railroads of the country would result re-sult in industrial paralysis from which the nation would not recover in an hundred years. It would give foreign indusries a lead over the United States which we might never regain. It would jeopardise capital to such an extent that men of means w utld hesitate to invest their wealth in national productive enterprises. It would prostrate the business of the country. Arbitration could settle these industrial in-dustrial disputes without difficulty, but arbitration can not always be invoked in-voked unless there is a law which compels both sides to arbitrate. Let us have such a law, and let us have it at once, before another spectre arises to menace the peace of tjie land. r r |