The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1906-12-07

, 500 establs hments, and 6,luouSi EN-
| poyees were thrown out OF employ
ment. During the same period the!t
were 1,Uu5 lockouts, involving nearly
10000 establishments throwing over
l.UOO.0W people out Of employ mehN
These strikes and lockouts involved an
estimated loss 10 employees Of S3on'
100000 and to employers u Sll5,O"V'.
600. total Of $3.50, The pubic
suffered directly and Indirectly prob
ably as great additional loss,
Many OF these strikes ANA lockoutS
would not have occurred had the pay
ties 10 the dispute been required IL
appear before an unprecedented body
representing the nation and, face ~
face. state the reasons for their con.
tcutlon. The exercise OF a Judicial
spirit by a disjntpresteG body repre-.
sentlus the federal government such
as would be provided by a comm!ss,vn
Oh Cancellation and arbitration, would
tend to create an atmosphere " friend
illness and con,.i.dt.ou between con
tending parties
Control of Corporations
II cannot too often br repeated that
experience has couclusycly shown the
mposSihility II securing by the actions
OF nearly half q hundred different state
legislatures anything but ineffective
chaos III the way Of dealing with the
great corporations which do Not oper'
ate exclusively within the limits OF
any one state. In some method whetA'
or by n national license law or IN other
fashion. we must exercise aud that al
an early date far more complete
control than AZ present over these great
corporations-a control that WILL among
other things. prevent the evils OF eS'
cessive decentralization and that Will
compel the disclosure by each big cor
poratiou OF its stockholders ANA ~ lis
properties and bus mess, whether own
ed directly or through subsidiary or
affiliated corporations This will tend
10 put Il stop 10 the securing Of inor'
d.nate profits by favored individuals az
the EXPENSE whether Of the general
public, the stockholders or the wage
workers our effort should he ~ So
much % prevent consolidation as such,
but So 70 supervise and couti~! IL as
10 see that IL results ID no harm 10 the
people.
Combination Of capital, Ike comb!ua.
ton Of labor, i a uecessar! element OF
our present industrial system II Is
aot possible completely 10 prevent Il
and II Il were POSSIBLE such complete
proven N would DO damage 70 the
body polite. What We heed is Lot
vainl! 10 try 10 prevent al comb!La'
ton. but = secure such rigorous aud
adequate control and supervision II
the com biuatous as - Prevent tle.!
.niur.ng the pu lie Or existing II such
form as Inevitably 10 threaten injury
for the mere tact that combination
has secured practically complete con
trol Of a necessary .! lie would under
any CIRCUMSTANCES show that such
combination was u te PRESUMED - te
adverse to the public Interest Il is
unfortunate that our Present laws
should torb,d q. ,l..y,..,.5.. instead
Of sblluly G,sc,iI....,... b.tvc..
those combinations VIII. d good a.J
those combinations which j, evil Re.
bates for Instance are a> often due -
tba rr.,.ur, If Dol. SINNERS rs VA.
shown ID the .1y,s,...,.5D q the
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