Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-29

tinnal ASSOCIATION OF
and of the Citizens Industrial associa'
ton. says:
Arbitration Of labor disputes Involves
arbitration Of primal rights The consul
tuition OF the limited States guarantees TO
every man the right 10 control ana as
pose Of his time. labor and properly as
he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe
on the equal rights Of others Aus' 'lls
ripht now be submitted TO arbitrauohF
Either an employer has the rlsht 70 run
his own business OF he has not Asaih,
tn employee has or has not the rlsh' 10
w, rk where he rleases and for what he
plcases. The constitution Of the country
pr ,sumes to grant these rights II II pre-
sunes to grant any rights at all AS tAsre
never was proposal to arbltrate III
Dor dispute that did not Involve uSHi-iI
Of these rights il becomes clear that tnose
who favor the artificial regulation OF IN IN
dustry through arbitration tribunals aIe
In favor of repeating the America" 'o"
stitution.
Joseph n. Buchanan, author OF "lhe
Story of a Labor Agitator," who was
for many years prominently identified
with the labor movement in the west
says:
am in agreement with Mr.. Newcomo
in his condemnation of compulsory arbi-
tration Indeed there can be no such
thing as arbitration under compulsion'
the term is self contradictory. Voluntary
arbitration, on the other hand, provinces
| a peaceable method for the settlement Oh
| disagreements between worklngmen ana
| their employers. 49, That the whole clll-
| zeuship-the public-suffers in times or
Ut and
| ployees is an established economic fact
| Therefore, those to whom 1.-The determlna-
| ton of matters is LEFT in cases OF Noiun-
| tary arbitration must be DESTROYS OF rem
| dering decisions which will be accepted
| by both sides, that strikes and lockouts
| may be az, .ded. .. believe In arDltIa-
ton because | deplore strikes. and one or
| the other Of these must be of frequent &C.
currence while the present Industrial sys-
| TEN obtains.
John +. Clark, professor of political
economy in Columbia university, says:
While not now ready to favor arbitra-
| tion-that is, in the full sense. compul-
! sory-I regard it as imperative that the
| public should be protected from the effects
| of strikes which stop transportation or
cut off the supply of fuel or other neces-
saries Let Cancellation do all that 1t can
to preserve peace ana community VI o'4 =
ice - The value of arbitration depends
on the appeal 1t makes to public opinion
| but the effect of the appeal is to insure
more than a passive sympathy. 1t Is TO
cause order to be preserved and the rights
of nonunion men to be respected.
Eugene V. Debs, candidate Of the So
cialst party for president in 1900, says:
In the present advanced state of our in
dustrial development arbitration be II
voluntary or compulsory must inevitably
| condemn itself. 80 do not deny that III
some instances arbitration has been the
means of avoiding or ending disputes be-
tween labor and capital, but | do deny
that anything has ever been settled there
by or that any permanent good has ever
come therefrom. Where voluntary arDi-
tration is possible 1t is unnecessary, and
where compulsory arbitration is necessary
it is impossible. The capitalist Is buyer
of labor power, a commodity in the pres
ent industrial sybtem, while the worker Is
the seller of that commodity. Between
them there is an "irrepressible conflict, q
class struggle each day adding to It's in
tensity and bringing 1t into clearer view
and holder prominence.
f. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor OF
the University of Nebraska, says:
do not incline to the opinion that
voluntary arbitration is in any way
, dangerous, and it would not occur tc
me to characterize it as 'makeShlft
save in the sense that it cannot be re-
! garded as likely to prove solution ol
, the labor problem. But as to compulsory
arbitration, l should agree with Mr.. New
comb, not perhaps, for the reasons he al
leges, but because of what seems to me 8
deeper one-viz, compulsory arbitration
If resulting unfavorably for the laborer
puts him under the legal obligation to g
to work again Cor to continue Work) in al
involuntary manner amounting to form
of serVitude and so contrary to the con
stitution as most recently amended.
Ralph NJ Easley, chairman of thu
executive council of the National Civil
Federation, says
Voluntary arbitration is too frequentl.
: a makeshift which should only be re
sorted to after every conceivable form o
Cancellation has failed. 1t is better thai
a strike or lockout. By "arbitra ton
mean the common plan of having al
equal number chosen on each side AM
, an umpire Jointly selected The pronenes
;, to call in, as a third party, some publ
spirited citizen unacquainted with tn
| technical points of the dispute too fire
Guently results in splitting Of the diff
, ference"
5 w. NJ. Daniels, professor of politica
f economy in Princeton university, says
I In the matter of Industrial arbitratio
? ~ do not pretend to any expert knowledge
| = but prima facie it would seem to me tina
MIR. Newcomb's argument by analog
! would imply that truce in war ough
/ never to be allowed, but that all the con
testants on one side or the other ought t
be killed to a man.
s Preservation of Old IrOnsides.