Organized labor always has objected to judicial settle
ments because of its fear that the employers would have more
control of the government, and hence, would actually make the
judicial determinations. But recently labor, where there has
been a struggle for the possession of the law making will, has
emerged victorious more frequently than not. Labor, if it
should believe itself the chief force behind the government,
would have no objection to judicial settlements, and such set
tlements would be better than settlements by strike whenever
government had attained such an equilibrium between groups
as to permit impartial action.
The- time is not far distant when labor disputes will be
publicly adjudicated. The basis for this deduction is in the
fact that the principal disputes are now adjudicated by public
authority, and that the settlements so made have an increas
ing moral authority, which rapidly approaches' the degree of
compulsion. ..
LOIRE'S KEYNOTE SPEECH
SENATOR LODGE, slim waisted, dapper, elegant, erudite,
and most remote from the mental state of candidates
of the-Hiram Johnson' type, made his keynote speech to the
Republican convention, which permitted him to talk 19 min
utes before it clapped a hand. The speech was long, it was
dreary, it was replete with oratorical periods, after the man
ner of old fashioned oratory, and it was typical of the dying
age which the senator represents.
