Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1912 — COMPULSORY ARBITRATION MUST COME [ARTICLE]

COMPULSORY ARBITRATION MUST COME

The strike last week of the pressmen employed on the - Chicago daily papers followed by the papOr wagon drivers and later by the stereotypers in sympathy, all in defiance of their existing contracts, practically tieirg up all the big newspapers of the Windy City, once more emphasizes the necessity for an arbitration law, and one that will arbitrate. The laboy unions as they are now conducted are a menace to the whole country, and instead

of paralyzing the business of the land at the behest of some shyster who happens to be at the head of their organization by going on a strike and stopping the wheels of industry, they should be compelled to arbitrate their differences with the employes of labor, and pending such .arbitration keep right to work. Ihe strike grievances are ninetynine times out of a hundred no grievances at all, but there is always a possibility of the leaders holding, up the employers. for a nice bunch of money to call the strike off. Labor unions are fast losing caste with the masses of the people, and if they are wise they will •heed the handwriting on the wall. Heed the day when the “walking delegate” will be given to understand that the public has rights which even his thick pate must take into consideration in his attempts to bleed the employers, of labor by blackmail. Only a couple of weeks ago the union of locomotive engineers threatened to tie up every' railroad east of the Mississippi umless their extortionate demands were heeded right away quick, in an ultimatum served on the railroads, and thereby paraldze the entire business of many states and causing untold hardship or. the innocent public. Fortunately, through the efforts of the labor commission at Washington, this matter ’will be submitted to arbitration, thus postponing, for a time, at least, the threatened paralysis by the biggest and most cold-blooded trust the world has ever seen.