Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-10
LABOR DISPUTES.
Address on The Subject Of Compul.
stFy Arbitration.
IRIS A RETURN 10 pARDARIsM


CHICAGO, Oct lO.-Iho feature o.
the quarterly dinner Of the Uuion
League club last night was the speech
Of Carol d. wfigbi, United states
labor commissioner, ON the subject o.
arbitration OF disputes between ON.
ployers anu employees. Ia substance
Mr. Wright spoke az followt
al must lint, myself to compulsory
Arbitration ~ applied to productive
indu,tty. The fitai great question 10
shall msn nave n risht " do what
ho viii with hia owu?'
ave say now, No, he may not, "
wnnt he wishes 10 do with ~ u likely
10 iniufe tbs property " health OF his
AIgubOf.'
~ mau must submit to the wish.
t- ut tue community In regard 10 me-
uNu properly.
"A tuitd limitation " likely to be
added 10 the answer NJ To-Day. The
answer viii coon be, No, not N you
lure the standard OF hving Of
Your neIghb1fs.' How then shall
this last answer he met when II comes,
90 Iunt Industry -hali not be kiuei By
Ne consequences?
aNo way has yet been devised 10
prevent strikes. rhu most that eau be
uutu n " reduce them IN number anu
Htvtfuy. Attenuation cannot prevent
thoui. Voluntary arbitration suUHiB a
logical answer.
pass " compulsory arbitration. The
aiv.oat,s Of this Fay that, nrst bOlh
PARTIES ~ a dispute must be compelled
Go come into court; and that, seClud,
when the court istuus ila decree ~
mu.t be enforced As auy other decree
would 30 enforced. Lot us nuo how
i.is viii work, a IN n manu- aCiurVt
who pays bis men on an average s. n
Jay. owing 90 some cause 80 nHdH
hu cannot pay this any longer anu
reduces wages TO $3.50. Tue mvn %.
tu.u this. they say they cannot live
uu lvth than s.. Tue employer Gays he
cannot pay more. Tho mStiut u
taken before compulsory board o..
tgutuatiUn. Suppose thu cIuft fays
tue men must take the 81 50. How
eau this DO uniUrceuf say tnefu are
800 employee. VINO eau make tnrm
Wutk2 riir constable, the sneflil, tue
y see cOmniiiatus, the military forces
uay 10 called uut. But none can iuaso
tbum work. Tho decree ~ dead from
tic beginning.
'5ipl oso the court saya tho manu-.
iRciulefs must pay theS.. But n he
really cannot EtiorI 10, what must
help MIN? The employer must DO Que
VI tho two thugs; Ether no must
Hduturate his goods " make up the
difference, or no must cUinblnu with
other employers IN trust t. keep w
the prices. The law viii have com
PEELED oue " thcso things.
There 10 also an scOuUmic question
TO be- considered. I tnr state Gays the
employer must pay liked price TOT
work, It mas practically fixed no price
tor tue COMMODITY. Tue law eau Tia
tne price,, bus II cannot compel tue
consumers u uuy At that price.
"ihr uexl lOgioEl step Is to make II
PENAL oticnsv not % buy at tho Price.
Then wny not lot the law TX tho
prices Of everything nfrutly9 IL
would DO cheaper 10 do tuis dIteolly
than through tue cumbersome ina
cninpfy OF cUmplus.fy atuiuatiOu.
The workman wOull be- "a slave under
compulsory arbitration. Hu has little
freedom OF cOutrscy now, lie must
submit 10 the ruling powers. Bul
conn ulHOry arbitration VIII destroy
NAAN AAkAAf Nv ANH ANANa - WIZ hHkANr
lish the prices ~ winch no eau soil tue
only commonly hr pIssrsse'-that n
hts iRbof. lie must except sl,sO or not
work NJ al n the court tells him TO do
30, even n the actual cost Of living IL
81, On Whatever sue We lock NJ II,
compulsory arbitration means death vi
inuustry nud the enslhyement Of lauof.
"Iu-fe may be- some modification Of
tho general principle developed In the
future, but do not know II now.
Tbofe should DO n protest by the com
muuity against II. Few labor organ.
izttiuna endOuo n. A few sthOlt n
hud thinkufs arc almost the only ones
WHO rally endorse II. 10 adopt At
would be 10 20 uaog to the ages from
which we have been divorced. IL
would be COINS tack 20 a worse bafbat-
isn than WI have ever had on thit
contiueui, There would BE- no NE, no
survival u Industry Jnder H."