Is destruction of property not preventable?
Are the owners of properties in coal to be destroyed in helplessness? Does the “Liberty under Law” which was chiseled on the front of the building of the Supreme Court at Washington mean anything substantial, or is it merely an expression of emotion? To be sure, labor must organize and bargain collectively through its chosen agents. The notion that an individual worker can go to United States Steel or to General Motors, or to any other great employer, and make a contract of employment to his best advantage is in disregard of practices by the employer which made the union necessary. The union has been highly beneficial to both employer and employee, and it could be more so with better leadership on both sides. It is a maxim of the law that there is no wrong without a remedy. The trouble has been that the Political Department of Government, instead of the Judicial, has been dealing with the subject. Only the courts can administer remedies for wrongs. A dispatch from London through the Un
