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TIIE .MORNING OEEGONIAN, FRIDAY, XOYE3IBER 17, 1922 "sj " "1 TWe Registered In U, S. Ptent Offlce and In Foreign Cotmtxte 5c, the Copy FOR THE AMERICAN FARMER AND HIS FAMILY PnWlshed "Weeklylry-The Curtli Publishing--Company, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pemwytvania. Subscription L00the Year. Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers. Entered as Second-Class Matter Jnly-7, 19T1, fPosrOH3c at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Under Act of March 3, 1879. Additional Entry at Columbus, St. Loula, Mo., Chicago, 111., Indianapolis, Ind Saginaw, Mich., Des Moines, la:, Galveston, Tex., Portland, Ore., Milwaukee, Wis. and St. Paul, Minn. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post-Office Department, Canada. Copyright, 1922, by The Curtis Publishing Company in the United States and Great Britain VoLLXXXVH PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER 18, 1922 No. 41 a STRIKES ST GO TO COURT Kjcmsas Points With Psride to Her Record in Settling In dustrial Disputes ONE of the greatest needs of this country is a fair and just way of settling disputes between labor and capital so that strikes may be done away with. That need has been borne in tipon all of tts more strongly in the last few years than ever before. No class needs, this more than the laborers themselves, whose lead ers, pursuing the archaic methods of the stadke, have brought upon them untold hardships and miseries. In this country there is work enough for every able-bodied man, trained and un trained, at a wage that will supply all his needs and be fair and just to him and to his employer. Notwithstanding this fact there have been 25,000 strikes in this country in the last three years and they have affected. T TT ' T All directly or indi- hV H PtlfV L A iPtl of is of J J J . sti rectly, millions .people and have been productive of enough sheer waste to buy and pay for a comfortable homefor every man who went on strike. -, r Not only that, but over 90 per cent of those strikes failed of the purposes for which they were called and the less than 10 per cent of so-called successful strikes did not produce enough from their victory to pay back to the laboring men what it cost them to be on strike. Not only are strikes costly to the men who engage' in them but they lay a heavy burden on the public. In the Middle West today the farmer is suffering from the waste1 Grotrmr Kansar the railroad strike .which has re tarded the. move ment of his farm . produce and affected his marketing condi tions. He had already been paying a great toll to the transportation companies in high freight rates. The coal strike slowed him down, too, and today over all the Middle West the farmer, brought into grim contact with the waste of labor strikes, is demanding that the ever-recurring quarrels between labor and. capital shall be solved through, some other method than the strike, shall be taken in charge and settled by responsible government that will give justice to all parties affected by the controversy, includ ing the public. The Kansas'' Court of Industrial Rela tions is an arm of government which is settling labor disputes in that very way. It was created out of the emergency of a coal strike, which left the people of Kansas the helpless victims of a conflict in the bringing on of which they had no part . The ; question arose as to whether the state had the moral right and the, power to mine coal. I believed it had, an.d I asked the state supreme court to turn over to the state 60 or 70 million "dollars' worth of mining property '. The chief justice, sur prised at my request, pushed his glasses up 'on his forehead, looked at me in wonder ment and asked: "On what allegations?" f I replied: "Well, judge, on any allegations you think would work." (?et out of Mere we caw Settle tpiese Qa?zS VPtfOUT . you - : I I TTTEEK by week, THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN ' with practical, nieaty suggestions which he can VV pounds away at the business end of farm- turn into dollars. ing-to help the farmer make more money. Buy the current copy today. Read Governor It goes to the roots of broad national problems Allen's article. See how thoroughly THE which affect his profits, and also packs each issue COUNTRY GENTLEMAN is doing its job. v - . Circulation 845,000 - . THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. You can subscribe through any newsdealer or authorized agent or send your order direct to THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania the Year r