The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-09
ARBITRATION.
Its Basis Is Mutual Good Will-Tho Boat
Way to Settle strikes.

Its Basis Is Mutual Good WilI-Tho Boat
Way to Settle strikes.
United Pre,by,trian.
We have already strongly insisted on
the settlement OF tabor troubles" by
arbitration. Tho present custom. OF
lockouts and strikes is wasteful. de-
moralising and dangerous. During the
enforced idleness there is great loss to
both parties, discomfort is engendered,
irritation, suspicion and misunder-
standing separate and ALLEVIATE, and the
spirit of lawlessness, specially melted
by few, rises and finds elimination in
violence, riot and crime. This cannot
90 on forever, gathering maleyolent
forces with the years. For the sake OF
all industrial industrial interests. And
for the sake OF humanity in all its higher
interests, we must seek better way OF
settling disputes. Violence must give
way to friendly conference, and force to
peaceful arbitration.
The present circumstances favor this,
the public sentiment demands some
way Of escape from these ott-recurring
disturbances, and the very conditions
that make them so disastrous, make
arbitration moro feasible. The labor
organizations, with which chiefly the
troubles arise, confer such despotic
powers on their leaders or officers, that
they can act as unit, and may easily
confer with the employers. When the
present very Objectionable features OF
the unions shall have been eliminated,
organizations, broader and on better
principles, will remain and make unity
of action as possible as now, without
the violence.
The basis OF arbitration is mutual
good will. Capital and labor-we pre-.
fer to say, employer and employe-have
no diverging or conflicting interests,
They are inseparably bound as workers.
One furnishes the business, the work
to be done, the other, for stipulated
consideration, does the work. Each is
powerless without the other. Each is
free. Each has weIl-deGued sphere.
Yet each is dependent on the other.
The welfare of the one is the welfare Of
the other. Good profits to the employer
give tho means to enlarge the business,
Good wages, comfortable living, and
prosperity to tho employees give better
grade OF work. resulting in products
that command better market. Each
party should thus seek the welfare OF
the other for tho common good Uf both.
Then, ii differences arise, as they will
in any possible conditions, they are in
such a relation to each other that con-
ferences can easily be held, and all the
Eacts considered in their bearing on tho
common interest. Both parties should
live with doors open 10 each other.
Until this basis OF confidence and mu-
tuRl good will can BIO established, there
is littlo hopo for any better than at
present exists. On the basis Of mutual
good will there is little possibility Of
any serious trouble, Many companies
and firms, carrying on very extensive
work, never have any Tabor trouble. >
Thei= methods arc based on the same
principles which govern individuals in
other business rotations, and having re-
gard, first, to tho character Of those
whom they EMPLOY, and second, TO
their rights and interests while in their
employment, they gather about them
men who become fully identified with
them. Thoro is one firm within our
knowledge now in its third generation,
and in all the three quarters OF CEN
fury there has never been lockout or
strike. There arc old mon in its en-
pioyment, who hive worked for it ali
their lives, and will do SO until they
die.
Arbitration assumes the recognition
Of mutual Tights, and the desire to
maintain cordial relations. When VIC
lence begins, the time for arbitration is
passed. Violence is crime. In arbi-
ration the two parties are on equal