Encouraging Proposal of Brotherhoods
Until the details of the railroad brotherhoods' compromise plan are disclosed, it will be impossible to determine whether or not the greater interests of the public are conserved, as well as those of the railroads, and the workers. After the experiences of last summer, the country will not be content with a settlement which does not make full provision for the public. The third party to any controversy between the railroads and their employees. Nevertheless, the willingness of the brotherhoods to negotiate, after their arbitrary stand, is encouraging at least a mutual promise of the brotherhoods to the President that in case of war, no strike or threatened strike would be permitted to embarrass the government. It is not only commendable as an evidence of real patriotism, but is a sharp reminder of the anarchistic agitators. He, in his pre-war stance, urges labor to tie up the nation's industry in case of war. 