Life — August 28, 1919 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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Returned Vacationist: or not be used to take the public by the throat and levy tribute from it. And that is precisely what the Sub- way strikers, under the order of the chiefs, were trying to do last week, and what the railroad threaten to do at their convenience, unless their are met. They think they have the power to put over any demands they choose to make, and they propose to use it. The local dis- turbance here in New York was com- brotherhoods terms plicated by the illusions and peculiari- ties of the mayor and other prominent actors in it, but all such disturbances are complicated by somebody's peculi- arities, so that doesn't much affect the value of this one as an example of the IT WAS GREAT, GEORGE, AND L ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE Iv y to handle difficult situa- There are some wrong tions. sple who must not strike. cluding workmen on public utilities like hey are a large group, in- railroads, policemen, firemen, govern- ment employees, including postal em- ployees, and divers other persons em- ployed. in probably necessary organize cnough to gain the means of collective bargaining, but they must not hold up the public, and somehow it must be provided that their demands shall have a and their just demands be granted without strikes. Such a provision implies a lot of brains and ch ice. The brains and the character exist, 1 fiduciary capacity, It is that they should hearing cter in the public serv- 361 but how to get them into the public service in sufficient quantity to keep things in order, is another problem, and one that is about as big as the labor problem. If we are going to get the best peo- ple have got to serve the public, and along with our trouble: hy some means or other, the public must be perstaded to let them. in the Thompsc It was per the other day that Mayor of Chic: through control by backers of the negr go got his last elec- tion one of his voters in the dis- Ss were some weeks That is not the kind of self-d de- Neither the tricts where the ri termination that is going to make mocracy safe for the world is there much salvation in that elected Mayor Hyla sort A\ CREP 3 L yes to press just as Mr. Wil- son is discussing the Peace Treaty with the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and until the report of that meeting is read it is waste of time Ik further about the Peace Treaty. trust the meeting may be of the sort so dear to contemporary colum- nists, where a good time was enjoyed by all, but Mr. Wil: pleasure to the Republican members of on's ability to give that committee has heretofore shown such limitations that awaits the than re- port more with itude with If the Tre can be passed as it is and the League of Na- tions constituted, the amendments that this probably be secured afterwards with- joyous thrills scem desirable to country can out much trouble come the United States is likely to get from the rest of the world almost any- asks For some years to thing that is reasonable that it for. It has the quid pro quo. It stands to gain more by the Treaty than any other nation; more in influ- more in more in ence, opportunity, power for good. Its loss will be pro- portionate if it stays out of the League, defeats it. The last will The Republican leader- But ic is still incredible that it will insist on Wilson a for re-election, with the Na- tions as the issue of the campaign. or, perhaps, hardly happen. ship has been peculiar; oh, very! making Mr candidate League of comicbooks.com