tween capital and labor which should
decide once and for all how capital and labor should share the joint
profits which they created. In this and many similar utterances there is
foreshadowed the interference of the State. Indeed, the settlement of
the Pennsylvania coal strike in 1903 was a clear example of such
interference, and there is no question that the precedents established
will be followed up on the next occasion of the kind by some arrangement
even less advantageous to employees who now almost universally feel, as
the present demands of the miner's union show, that they got the worst
of the former decision.

The railway and mining situations in Great Britain, and the demand for
the government to take some measure to protect employees against the
"trusts" in this country (to say nothing of the menace of a great coal
strike), promise to make compulsory arbitration an issue of the
immediate future. Mr. Roosevelt, who now proposes that the government
should interfere between monopolies and their employees, is the very man
who is responsible for the coal strike tribunal of 1903, which not only
denounced sympathetic strike and secondary boycott, but failed to
protect the men against discrimination on account of their unionism.
Were he or any one like him President, the institution of government
wage boards would be dreaded like the plague.

Similarly Mr. Winston Churchill, in Great Britain, recognizes the
extreme seriousness of the situation. His position is ably summed up by
the _Saturday Evening Post_:--

"Winston Churchill has propounded a capital-and-labor puzzle to his
British constituents.

"To a modern state, he says in substance, railroad transportation
is a necessity of life--and how literally true this is of England
was shown in the general strike of last August, when the food
supply in some localities ran down to only a few days'
requirements. So the government cannot permit railroad
transportation to be paralyzed indefinitely by a strike. It cannot
sit by and see communities starve. A point will soon be reached
where it must intervene and force resumption of transportation.

"Strikes, however, form one of the modern means of collective
bargaining between employer and employees. They are, in fact, the
workmen's final and most effective resource in driving a bargain.
Denied the right to strike, labor unions would be so many wooden