Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much on D'Annunzio before the war. The facts of his vile existence are there, if anyone wants them. Any number of travellers in Italy will testify to that. Yet, it is almost as bad to believe what insidious press dispatches have to say on this Italian, nay, international outlaw. And so is the intelligent public, as usual, caught between two fires...
...discontent of the men has increased as they have watched the garment workers, coal miners and other classes receive substantial increases in wages. The Federal Board, provided for by the Esch-Cummings Act two months ago, was not even appointed until the country was in the grip of the outlaw strike, and so far it has produced no constructive results. In the meantime the traffic tie-up caused by the strike continues critical. All the workmen, even the Brotherhoods themselves, are losing patience...
After two weeks of the outlaw strike the suffering and bewildered public has yet to discover just what it is all about. Some would have us believe that the leaders of organized labor themselves are behind the scenes, secretly directing the strike for some dark purpose. Others assert that the disturbance is no more than the expression of justified discontent on the part of the men, and that the President is to blame, because of his delay in appointing the Railroad Board. Still others, borne out by the testimony of the Attorney-General, see the insidious working...
...warning, that it does not call for any definite program, and that its success means the undoing of much of the progress that has been made in collective bargaining. Whatever the mystery of the strike may be, the public knows that it is not receiving fair treatment; and the outlaw strikers, standing against the tide of public sentiment, have lost more than half the battle...
...public utilities should not be allowed to desert their posts without either notice or complete exhaustion of peaceful means of settlement. If the brotherhoods are to retain the confidence of the public they must show their responsibility and their power to live up to their contracts by breaking the outlaw strike and punishing its leaders...