Compulsory arbitration is a makeshift appropriate only for desperate emergencies.

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When agreement fails, another kind of process of interplay of private abilities - the raw test of economic strength in strike or lockout - comes into operation. If the result of this is to threaten serious damage to the public interest, then the government perforce must try to devise some alternative solution. The virtues of private ordering are never more impressively demonstrated than they are at this point. For, apart from the endouragement of a volutary submission to arbitration, no other alternative is very satisfactory. No one who has closely observed the difficulties of compulsory arbitration is likely to think of it as anything but a makeshift appropriate for invocation only in the most desperate emergencies. Nor does it often seem promising to try to settle a strike by an A hoc statute. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 4331