The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-21

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tentiary The daughter and her husband Aavo - -
= very hard Of their and can .s< Spare s~uA
from their ptfful earnings for the old ms<hsrs GsDs
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which 10 maintained By pubic taxas1on-
moro inhuman method OF dealing vRA - 0e1GD
that arise in the lives industrial vesks ooa4 ue1 -
puzposey devised Than that which has Just bssa sA
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failing tho nfe th1s suppositious family. TAsco
thousands OF in the United States e Just soA
pitiful nature OF the inefficient Wv IN v&aA
this phase Of tho industrial problem handed - ~
outsrowth OF hapha1ard Industrial progrssa ssss
abundant reason however for the cttsens Of the aaa
uniting to bring about through concerted effort DE
Enlistment Of IN industrial regime that viii proceed
along Sane lines rather than like druemad Moro -
to carve and slash his way to heaven.
The forms Of government insurance that have boea
suggested will provide efficient method adjusting
this phase OF the industrial problem with justice ALL
Burial life health accident. unemployment
hood and old government Insurance. compulsory
all citizens and paid for out OF the annually
ceved In taxes not fail prove less expensive
and more efficient than the present system OF 1ndis
eliminate public and private charity.
Government by means would more to
labor than could the unions and probably
less expense Tho Typographical union today offers i
members in the death benefit and old pensoa but
two of the forms that everyone then
would have from government From the standpoint
all labor there be question which would
offer it the most protection union insurance a
government forms. Tho strength the at the
most would represent only the consolidated power
all the crafts The strength Of government would IN
clude that well the Of all the az
the units OF citizenship in the country.
The unions have been instrumental In raistng tho
average wages OF their members throughout the
try The organized power of their individual membsrs
either through the craft union through federation
crafts both has used for this PURPOSE II has
resulted 1t is true in establishing tho principle Of
maximum rather than a minimum wage scale. but that
due to human nature and development the
law OF special privilege. Human instfncttveiy
feels that tho inequalities produced BY special privilege
unnatural and has waged its against by
OF the club Of dead levelism Envy exsta rath
than the admiration and spirit OF emulation that
would follow the establishment OF privilege
der the equal price law Even among and in crafts
however, inequalities in scales exist printers
a. Richmond Indiana, have a scale OF SIT Q week. and
increase OF 81 demanded January LIST: at
Munce the scale is $20 and at Indianapolis it IL $23
a week At Richmond another craft, the Bartenders'
union has a scale of $12 . week and no Limitation of
the hours of work.
Valuable have been the efforts of tho unions to
protect the SCALE there is another agency
do this with far greater efficiency and with
effort as well as with equal justice to all labor union
and non-union. Government should apply tho eouaI
price law to directed labor by establishing minimum
wage for given number Of hours work each day and
based on a given amount OF work. This could then
used to compute the minimum weekly scale MI. HaT-
rngton Emerson is doing this individual plants
by establishing standardized wages for standardized
Jobs Government however, should establish equal
minimum scale that will govern all industry. Directed
labor would then be by strongest power
in the country against cutting by inefficient
and In the provision that the based
given amount of work for each craft managers
would be protected against lazy workers.
This minimum wage scale should be based oa De
average Of all labors present reward is present
average efficiency In taking tho Given
to obtaining the paid in this country to
labor. II to this added tho information
average amount of work produced for this
craft there would be the basis upon which compute
the minimum wage scale by the methods of such eth.
cheney engineers Mr. Harrington Emerson The mini.
mum daily wage should be for eight hours work None
should be required to work longer eight
should be prohibited from working longer II do
sirable to the individual il Of
that done In the minimum eight hours could bs done
should apply equally to all and women workers.
There should be distinction through legislation
tween between crafts After all estabsh.
ed tho level of the equal minimum wage. natural
forces alone should be allowed distinguish between
individual workers and their crafts.
With government protecting all labor in 4 minimum
scale and affordng it the necessary forms
of insurance that have been suggested tho Tor
the existence of the unions would power great
than that of the combined unions would be protect
ing labor Under such condition this and in the