The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-02
IS CARROLL D. WRIGHT
AIDING .PARRY|TES
SERIOUS CHARGE Preferred BY
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER
CORRESPONDENT
Says That Labor Commissioner Wright
Is Assisting the Parryites to Gather
Statistics For the Purpose Of Using
Them Against Organized Labor
Get Highest Paid Wages to Strike
General AVERAGE"

Cleveland. O., Jan. 1.-The Cleveland
Citizen, in this issue, says that a
newspaper correspondent in Washing
ton makes the sensational charge that
United States Commissioner of Labor
Carroll D. Wright is assisting the Par
ryites to gather statistics for the pur-
pose of using them against organized
labor. It is claimed that Mr.. Ethelbert
Stewart, Of the labor department., was
instructed by Wright to aid Secretary
Job, of the Employers Association Of
Chicago, in securing whatever data
possible relating to wages, cost Of liv-
ing, ETC., Of the highest paid workers,
which facts were to be used by the
Parryites as general averages to
show why wages are already too high
and hours Of labor too short:
Some time ago Wright handed out
bunch of statistics relating to cost of
living, and very cleverly selected men
whose earnings averaged 1927 a year,
and then estimated, on the other hand,
that living expenses were not nearly as,
high "as popularity supposed" In fact,
this celebrated fgure-juggler, after
taking the pick of the land among
wagereceivers, showed that they really
had surplus of $55 a year. The
Citizen has also received information
from authentic sources that those
statistics were gotten out for a pur-
pose,' and that the statistics relating
to the great bulk Of workers who
averaged much less than 1927 year
that were gathered at the same time
tiww be put out in 1905 probably"
Quite likely. No doubt Wright is
sued the $S27-a-year' figures to pre-
pare the way to the Rooseveltian mes
sage and the prosperity boasts con-
tanned therein as resulting from my
administration" as well as to bolster
up the Parry campaign Of resisting
organized labor's demands for better
conditions and to strengthen the CAPT.
talistic agitation in favor Of the "open
shop policy which Wright himself
started in his famous report of the
Anthracite Coal Commissions findings,
, and which "open shop policy is also
heartily championed by. President
Roosevelt in the government printing
office case. >. u.
Is4It is an outrage hatntlis man
fionss as that 81
Of labor, and that he lis allowed to lend
himself and his assistants to the Parry
| plutocrats. That department was
created at the demand Of organized
| labor Of this country, and it was ac-
| knowledged on every side that real
| workingman should be at the head OF
! it.
! We are unable to recall a single
body of worklngmen in the United
States that favors retaining Wright in
his present position. On the other
hand thousands of unions have passed
resolutions requestion the promotion
of William S. Waudby, special agent
of the bureau and a man in every way
fitted to handle that department and
| furnish statistics in an uncolored and
unbiased manner. Mr.. Woudby Is a
member Of the International Typo
graphical Union, has become famous
as a. writer upon economic questions
and tells the exact truth, no. matter
whom it hits. Probably Mr.. Waudby
is not advanced because he cannot be
used to twist figures to deceive the
working people.