The Saint Paul globe., 1902-09-24
SHOULD Get TOGETHER
JOB, ILLINOIS, FAVoRS FRIEND
LY CONFERENCES
Much UnpIeasantness and Discomfort
on Both Sides Might Be ForestaIIed
by Timely Sessions Between Dis
putants-Public, as Represented by
State, Has Right to Interfere.

Frederick w. Job, chairman Of the
board of arbitration of the state Of Hi
nois, speaking before the convention of
employer and employe at Minneapolis
yesterday on the subject of "Arbitra-
ton From the Point of View Of an Ar
bitrator," said:
When I was visited some weeks ago
by the secretary of the organization Of
the citizens Of Minneapolis and Of the
Eight Hour league, under whose au-
spices this meeting is now being held,
and was informed that the national
convention of employers and employees
was to be held in this city, and was
told of the objects of the same, [ was
very much impressed with the idea,
and the benefits both to labor and en-
ployers which will result from such a
conference deeply impressed me.
I have made quite a study of the sub
ject of arbitration, conciliation and la
Dor troubles in general and a dozen
more subjects which they suggest, and
most pronounced in my mind of all
these suggested questions is the one
prominent question of why in many
cases friendly conferences have not
been held between employer and en-
ploye before any trouble originated.
want to emphasize that repeated
friendly conferences between employer
| and employe can no more mix up with
strikes and lockouts than can oil and
water mix, and the more you have of
friendly conferences, the less there are
to be of labor disturbances.
Both Are Interested.
One of the most frequent causes Of
| lockouts comes from the fact that one
side or the other to the disturbance
| fails to recognize the fundamental
| facts of the relation which they bear TO
each other, which is that both en-
ployer and employe are vitality inter-
ested in wages, in hours and in condi-
| tions of labor.
| The employer often fails to recog-
nize the fact that with his growing
| business his changed conditions, which
are attendant with such growth, the
| employment of new foremen and boss
es, the actual condition of the laborers
should receive his careful attention.
The workman, on the other hand, Is
too often prone to assume that increas-
ed prices and larger establishment, and
| more material evidences of q growing
| institution mean that all this growth
was produced exclusively as the result
| of his toll
We believe that if they are unable to
| settle their own difficulties it is the
| duty of the public to settle it for them.
| We believe that If the state and it's
| people are to be sufferers through an
Industrial disturbance, and If the state
| is finally to be compelled to go to a
great expense to look after itself and
be seriously inconvenienced when the
disturbance becomes more violent, that
it also has the right to look into such a
case before it reaches a violent stage,
and that 1t is justified in making the
demand that the rights of third parties
such as the public be protected.
Must Keep Condolences.
With these principles in mind we
coupled with our invitations to COM
| batants these guarantees:
First-That conference with each
other and with our board do them nc
harm, if it did them no good, and would
at least leave them where we found
them, If 1t did not settle the trouble.
Second-That our board could be re-
lied upon not to carry tales from one
side to the other. We realize that we
| knew that no trouble was ever settled
by the mediator or peacemaker who
carries stories from one side to the
other.
The third point was that it would moi
cost the contestants a single cent; thai