Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. [ARTICLE]

COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.

The result of the labor troubles and the mobs and riot of July, 1891, will be to force arbitration upon employers and em ployee • whether they want it or not. There will no longer be learned discussion and arguing the logio of the thing. The logic of events has decide i it. Labor wars in the Dm ed States should be settled now, once lot all. There must never again be witnessed such Beenes' as the American pnblie has beheld rece -tly. Ever since the Homestead riots two years ago there has h,en uneasy, si.ent belief that the worst had not come yet. Undoubtedly the worst has come in the mmner of 1894. Governor McConnell of Id aho struck the current of public opi. ion when he tele graphed President Cleveland suggesting that there be recommended to congress the immediate pa sage of a lawmaking art itration compulsory in all cas s of difV f«re cc I etween employers and employed who me concerned in the transportation bust teas. Public sentiment demand-: this law. i r importation comp»nies or those who m nnfactnre the means of transportat ion are not private corporations, it s claimed On them depends the life and comfor of community. While iu Caliornia irnit was rotting in the cats and those who produce it aie being ,niutd financially becaase of the want of the money they would have obtained for it. In soma parts of t!« east there was a fr> it famine The little [supply California rfcrait was soon exhausted, and the native supply was utterly inadequate to the d<* maud The people will , ot permit this state o t things to come upon them veryoften hereafter. They declare that they themselvt s have the Urg st interest of «il at stake in auch strikes as this of July, and that they are the ones t'. judge whether there Is «nj - thing to arbitrate Therefore the call that iamsde for the compulsory arbitration 1 aw Such an enactment already exists in some 4t the Australian colonies