Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-12-12

the Isthmus is concerned, where white labor can not be employed, 10 bother az to whether the necessary work K done by allen black men or by alien yellow men. But the wageworkers Of th' l United states are. of SO high q grade | standpoint and from the civic stand | point it should bc our object Co do what we can in the direction of securing tho general observance of an eight hour day | LABOR OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN The Congress at It's last session wisely provided for a truant court for the Dis trict of Columbia; a marked step in nd- | vance on the path of properly carinp ! for the children Let me again urge | that the Congress provide for thor. | Dugh investigation of the conditions oi l child labor and of the labor of women in the United States
 EMPLOYERS LIABILITY
 Among the excellent laws which the Congress passed nt the last session was 1 an employers liability law. It was a marked step in advance to get the rec OgnitiOn Of employers liability on the statute books; but the law did not gd far enough. In spite of all precautions exercised by employers there are un- avOdablc accidents and even deaths in- Vulvcd in nearly every line of business connected with the mechanic arts. This inevitable sacrifice of life may be r, drced to n minimum. but it can not he | completely eliminated It is great social injustice tO compel the "mploye,
 
 abled victim, to bear the entire burden of such nn inevitable sacrifice.
 REPRESENTATIONS OF DISPUTES BE- TWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR. O.. President October i6. i's2. at the request of both the anthracite coal operators and miners. to inquire into. consider and pass upon the questions in controversy thrcite regions of Pennsylvania and the cause out of which the controversy arose In their report. findings. and award. express the belief that the state and Federal governments should provide the machinery for what may be called the compulsory investigation of contro- vsrs,e' Ssn ,hs between employers and employe, belief k deserving of the favorable con sideration of the Congress and the en- actment Of it's provisions into law. A Dill has already been introduced to this
 WITHDRAWAL OF COAL LANDS. 1t is not w,se that the nation should niienate it's remaining coal lands. have temporarily withdrawn from settle ment all the lands which the Gcolog- ical Survey has indicated as containing or fin all probability. containing. coal The ownership would then remain In the United states. which should not. how ever. attempt to work them. but permit them to be worked by private individ- uals under royalty system. the Gov ernment keeping such control as to per
 
 was charged consumers. It would, of course, be as necessary 10 supervise the rates charged by the common carriers to transport the product as the rates charged by those who mine it: and the supervision must extend to the conduct of the common carriers. SO that they shall in no way favor one competitor at the expense Of another
 CORPORATIONS
 The present Congress has taken long strides fin the direction of securing proper supervision and control by the National Government over corporations engaged In interstate business-and the enormous majority of corporations of any size are engaged tn interstate business The pas- sage of the railway rate bill, and only to less degree the passage Of the pure Ing and rendering more effective na- tional control over the beef f-packing in dustry. marx an important advance in the the, proper .,, direction: % In the shor! ses- much further along this line: and it may be best to walt until the laws have been In operation for number of months before h, re endsavorlnx to Increase their with exactness their merits and their shortcomings. and thus give opportunity to define what further remedial lexisla: @ tiSn is needed. Yet In my judgment t with the packing house inspection law to provide for putting a date on the label and for charging the cost of inspection to the packers. All these laws have al- ready justified their enactment. The In- terstate commerce law. for Instance. has rather amusingiy falsiied the predic- tons, both Of those who asserted that It would ruin the railroads and of those who asserted that it did not go far enough and would accomplish nothing. During the last five months the raii- aome of them unsuai dividends; while during the same period the mere taking effect of the law has produced an unpre- cedenied. n hitherto unheard of. number fares by the railroads. Since the found- ing of the Commission there has never been tinc of equal length in which dnything like so many reduced tariffs 2. for instance. two days before the new law went Into effect the Commission received notices or over live thousand separate tarifs which represented reduce tons from previous rates.
 In some method. whether by n national license law. or in other fashion. we must exercise .and that at an early date. n Tar more complete control than at pres ent oyer these great corporations-a con trol that will among other things pre- vent the evils of excessive overeapital- ization. and that will compel the dis- closure by each big corporation of It's business. whether owned directly or through subsidiary or affiliated corpora tons. This will tend to put stop to the securing of inordinste pronts by fov- orcd individuals at the expense whether of the general public. the stockholders, or the wagcworkcrs. Our effort should bc not SO much to prevent consolida ton as such, but so to supervise and control it AS to see that it results in no harm to the people.
 The actual working of our laws has shown that the effort to prohibit all com binatlon. good or bad. Is nOxlous where it is not ineffective. Combination of capital like the combination of labor is necessary element of our present in- dustrihl system. lt is not possible com pletely to prevent it and if it were possible, such complete prevention would de damage to the body polite What We need is not vainly to try to prevent all combination, but to secure such rig orous and adequate control and super vision of the combinations as to prevent thclr lnjuring the public, or existing in such form as inevitably 10 threaten in- Jury-for the mere fact that a combina- ton has secured practically complete fF..l ..l .l ..l.l.