The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-13
ARBITRATION 1R1suHALs.-

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of discord tWixt the laborer and thu
employer. The movement is q com
mendable one for many reasons
though it is doubtful whether il
will prove efficacious. 1t may bt
the Iaborers feeling weak, have
determined they cannot afford to at
tempt violent measures as they have
done heretofore, or it may be they
have awakened to a realization OF
the ia ct that whatever violent mea-
sures are adopted and enforced re-
suit in greater evil to the laborel
himself than to the persons whom
it is intended shall suffer. Arbitra-
ton is the only Christian and
brotherly method Of settling diff
culties, but owing to the differ
ences in human nature it is
unlikely thatit will ever be adopted
to any general extent. Arbitration
committees IN order to discharge
the duties of arbitration, must be
men Of intelligence who are capable
of grasping fully the subject under
consideration in It's various bearings
and they must also be perfectly free
from bias and without personal in
terAst in the matter in order that
their decisionsImay be made on the
merits of the case independent Of
the results. It is true, there Is in
humanity a large degree Of good.
honest, sound-selse which asserts
itself without any large degree of
cultivated Intelli gence, but such
good, honest judgment often-times
is led strangely sstray, and is not to
De relied upon. Arbitration COM
mittees to be effective, must
possess that which those interested
lack; that is, there must be clear
and educated Observation-Disclosures
on the subject in dispute-perfect
independence sof thought and free
dom of action. Suppose such a
body give decision on subject, a
decision which, as would naturally
be expected, is free from bias and
perfectly conscientious, how would
it be receivedf In order that its
full force might be appreciated, it
would be necessary that those whom
the decision was to effect should be
as intelligent and as fair-minded as
the members of the committee
whereas it was the vast difference
between the characters and Gharac-
teristics of the parties that made
arbitration necessary. Such a fair
decision on the one side appeals to
squalor, hard muscle and logged
ignorance, and on the other to avar-
ice, a disposition to command and
refined selfishness, if not penurious-
ness. How much weight, therefore,
can a decision which effects to de-
ermine controversy between
such contending elements, be ex-
pected to possessg If those at
variance were prepared to accept
such decision, then the necessity
for the decision would never have
arisen, for the reason that the fair
ness, the liberality, and the manly
intelligence which would enable all
to receive 1t with favor, would
have led to an immediate and @
Just settlement Of all Disagreement
as soon as they arose, and would
have obviated the necessity Of re
sorting to arbitration.
The "differences"-sO called-be
tween labor and capital are sucf
that no amount OF legislation car
remedy them, and the reasons
which operate against Legislation
are of equal force when applied tt
i, arbitration. Labor viii be doggeC
and determined because it i
, labor; and capital will be i'm
perious and avaricious becsus
} it is capital; when capital yields.
will be for the reason that the inev
| liable law Of supply and deman
t forces it to succumb; where labo
gains victory, it will be due to tn
operation Of the same eommercis
? force. It is idle for laboring men
, mechanics and artisans to attemp
, to force the price of labor up, Whe
7 the trade TO which each belongs
} OVERLOOKING with men. Labor diff
: culties adjust themselves, and n
3 regulation on the part of trade
3 unions is powerful enough to work
: change, unless it be momentar
9 one. If a particular trade has to
7 many followers, then young me
= who are starting out in the worl
? will avoid it and seek one which
g n IRE remunerative and where labo
is eo.,poor. in a fow vaars hiq trad