The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-23
BRYAN STATES
HIS POSITION
NebraSkan for Compulsory Ar
bitratiOn of Labor Disputes
-Beveridge Is Not.
JOINT DEBATE CONTINUES
ECONOMIC PROBLEM BEFORE
THE PEOPLE.
(special 10 nae Herald.)

Washington, Aug. 2z.--Compulsory arbi-
tration of labor disputes is advocated by
William J, Bryan in the September in
stallment of his point debate with Sena-
tor Albert ]. Beveridge of Indiana in
the Reader magazine. Coming while the
public attention is strongly bent upon
the telegraphers' strike il shows that the
NebIaskan will make this one of the is
sues of the next campaign II he IS given
the Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency and will work for 1t individually If
he remains in the party ranks.
Senator Beverage finds the condition
of labor already satisfactory and urges
both capital and labor not to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg for both.
Great Need for Arbitration.
THE greatest need Of the laboring man
IN this country at this time is arbitra-
tiOn," says Mr.. Bryan, for this would
enable him to secure the shorter hours
for which he contends and would prevent
the strikes which have brought the writ
of injunction into use There is no more
reason why the laboring man should be
left to enforce this contention by an idle
ness that throws the burden upon himself
and his family than there would be for
return to the wager of battle as a means
of settling Law suits.
while improved machinery has in
creased the number Of workers and raised
the grade Of their employment, it has
also brought about conditions under
which the superintendent is so far re-
moved from the individual worker that
the personal relationship is greatly
weakened Justice must, therefore, be
secured by q resort to some impartial
court. 1t is not necessary that the find
ing Of the board shall be binding upon
the parties to the dispute. If there Is
compulsory investigation at the request
of either party public opinion may be
relied upon tC enforce the conclusion
reached by the arbitrator. The president
has recently called attention to the i'm
Democratic party has in three national
platforms urged the Importance of arbi-
tration, there is reason to hope that il
is near at hand.
But the needs before mentioned, viz. a
shorter day, arbitration and protection
from government by injunction, are buu
means to an end and the end sought is
the more equitable distribution Of the
wealth produced. There has been a Won
derful increase in the production in every
department of labor; the strength of the
human arm has been multiplied many
times-in some occupations many hun
bred times-by the Introduction of ma
chinery, but the man at the machine does
not secure his share OF the product The
economic problem OF today is the read
justment Of rewards"
BeVeridge Quotes Mitchell.
Senator Beverage quotes John Mitchell.
president of the United Mine Workers as
stating that the American workingnan
receives better wages both in money and
what money will buy than the working
man of any Of the nations of Europe
With the progress Of legislation for the
protection and comfort of labor Sena-
tor Beverage points out that there has
been an even more rapid growth OF leg
islation restraining and regulating can't
tai in its various forms. Coming to his
own bill providing for exclusion from
transportation in Interstate commerce of
the products of child labor Senator Bev-
eridge says; about 100000 American
children between the ages of and rs
geneTacy by toiling from ten to twelve
hours in mill, mine and sweat-shop'
He tells Of the ATTACK on the bills CON
stitutionalIty" in the senate and saws
when he read decisions OF the supreme
court demonstrating its constitutionality
he was met with the assertion that the
supreme court was wrong and this In
debate on the floor Of the senate" SEN
ator Beverage adds:
Next session L will have a vote upon
this bill. Its most powerful friend is
Theodore Roosevelt, just as ne has been
the most powerful friend in our day of
all measures helpful to his fellow-men
Mr.. Bryan, too, is earnestly for it, But
southern mill owners, the anthracite com
bine, glass factories, silk mills sweat
shops, the railways that directly ham
their products and other roads in SWIM
patty with these-all are against II Also
a few sincere doctrinaires are against il.
On an aye and no vote we shall see
who wins-the child-slave drivers and
honest word-theorists, or the conscience
and humanity of the American people
Senator Beverage says he will SUD-
port the moderate anti-injunction bill adj
vocated by President Roosevelt and pre-
diets that If the bill does not mass a
broader measure backed by ali oresnizad
labor and the great body of the peopIe
Will be enacted and he will vote for II