Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-12-06

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investigation Of Disputes.
He urges tho enactment Of Z drastic
ehih labor law fer tho District Of Co.
!anabia and the territories, and federal
tnvestisetion Of the subj sst Of child and
He reviews tho work Of the senarq ission
appointed to Investigate labor eond1tiens
IN tho coal fields Of Pennsylvania in lsea
that tho state and federal governments
may be called the compulsory investiga-
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referring to the fact that bill has A.
ready been introduced to this end he
MANY Of these strikes and lockouts
would not have occurred had the parties
to tho dispute been required to appear
before an unprsjudlced body representing
reasons for their contention. In most
instances tho dispute would doubtless be
found to be due to q misunderstanding
W OACH VI llO On0I ASk1AVASoO
BY an unwillingness Of sither party to &C.
IS to tho justice or injustice Of tho mat
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s.ach as would DO provided by = commits
sion on conciliaticn and arbitration
frisndliness and Cancellation between con-
tending parties; and the giving each side
an equal opportunity to present fully it's
prevent many disputes from developing
into serious strikes or lockouts, and in
other cases, would enable the commits
sion to persuade tho opposing parties to
como to terms.
I'm this age Of great corporate and Ia
Dor combinations, neither employers nor
employees sh4 3S be left somple:
their respective claims. The proposed
measure would be in the line of securing
strikes the publ has itself an interest
which cannot wisely be disrexarded; an
interest not merely Of general conven;
proper. public policy must also be con-
sidered. In ali legislation Of this kind
r is we'll to advance cautiously, testing
each step by the actual results; the step
proposed can surely be safely taken, for
the decisions Of the commission would
not bind the parties in legal fashion, and
yet would give a chance for public opin
Aoii W CACit LID Auil Aol &c LII IAAO AlSAI.
Control of Corporations.
A considerable portion Of the message
is devoted to the subject of federal con-
the passage at the last session of the
rate, meat inspection and food laws, and
says that all of these have already justi-
the amendment of the meat Inspection
law to put dates on the labels of
meat products and also to, place the
cost of inspection on the packers rather
this subject of the control OF corporations
10y the federal soyernynent he says:
1T cannot too often be repeated that ex-
perience has conclusively shown the i'm
possibility of securing by the actions of
nearly half hundred different state
LEGISLATURES ANYTHING bHt ineffsctiye
IN the way OF an got WIN aae
exclusively within the limits of any
state. In some method, whether by
national license law or IN other fashion,
date, far more complete control than
at present over these great corpora
tions-a control that viii among other
overca it.lization. and that will compel
the disclosures by each big, corporation
of its stockholders and of its properties
thru subsidia ny affiliated corporations.
This will tend to put a stop to the secur-
ing of inordinate profits by. favored
individuals at the expense whether of
the general public, the stockholders; or
the wageworkers. Our. effort should be
not so much to prevent consolldauon as
such, but so to supervise and control 1T
the people. The reactionary or ultracon.
sentative apologists for the misuse OF
wealth assail the effort to secure such
control as a step toward socialism AS f.; a
and ultraconservatives who are them
selves most potent in increasing seeialis.
tic esg & One Of the est
a dangerous agitation, which is 30 per
cent. wrong, is to remedy the 20 per cent
of evil as to which the agitation is WEI!
undesirable move for the governmental!
ownership OF railways IS to secure By
the government on behalf of the people
as a whole such adequate control and
regulation of the great interstate com
mon carriers as will do away with the
evils which give rise 70 the agitation
against them So the proper antidote
against the men Of wealth as such il to
secure by proper lesisiation and s2eeu-
tive action the abolition of the grave
nect:on with the business use Of wealth
under our present system-or rather no
system-of failure to exercise any ade-
as ase # the ds' e4er S of
control would do away with the fraedem
Of 9odn g h. S a aod ew f.et init
would be veritab1e calamity to fail to
put a premium upon individual initiative,
individual capacity and effort; upon the he
it is so important to encourage In the
Individual. But as q matter Of fact the
deadening and degrading effect of pure
socialism, and especially Of It's extreme
form communism, and the destruction Of
individual character which they would
bring about, are in part achieved by 4e
wholly unreRulated compsttt&on whieh
results in q single individual or corpor-
alton rising at the expense Of al others
until his or it, rise enectually checks all
competition and reduces former compsti-
tors to position Of utter inferiority and
subordination.
"1n enactins and enforcing such lesis-
lation as this congress already has to it's
credit, we are working on coherent
plan, with the steady endeavor to secue'e
the needed reform by the joint action Of
the moderate men, the plain men who
do not wish anything historical or
dangerous, but who do intend to deal
in resoIute comMonsense fashion with
the reaN and great evils OF the present
system. The reactiona0ies and the vio-
lent extremists show symptoms of join
ing hands against US. Both assert. for
to government ownership Of railroads
and tho like: the reactionaries, because
on such an issue they think the people
would stand with them, while the ex-
tremists care rather to preach discomfort
and agitation than to achieve solid re-
suits. Al a matter of fact, our position
is as remote from that OF the bourbon
reactionary as from that of the imprac-
ticable or sinister visionary. We hold