The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-07

graft on employers.
"lneffciency of workers, resulting
in everincreasing cost of living.
Rapidly increasing complexity OF
industry.
Sudden transition of large num-
Der of foreigners from repression to
freedom, which makes them an easy
prey to labor agitators.
Universal craze to get rich quick.
Decay of old ideas of honesty and
thrift.
"Misinformation in newspapers.
TOO much organization for com
bative purposes instead of for CO.
operation
Violence in labor troubles
Sympathetic strikes and jurisdic-
tional disputes.
"Boycotting and picketing
"Meddlesome and burdensome leg.
islation.
"The closed shop, which makes for
labor monopoly Financial irrespon-
sibility of labor unions"
A similar presentation of the en-
ployee's side is as follows:
Normal and healthy desire for
better living conditions.
Protest against low wages. long
hours, insanitary and dangerous con-
ditions existing in many industries.
Demand for industrial democracy,
and revolt against the suppression
of organization
Unemployment, and the insecurity
which the wage Garner feels at all
times.
Unjust distribution of the product
of industry. Exploitation of the many
by the favored few Demand for
full share of production
Unjust attitude of police and courts.
There is one law for the rich;
another for the poor
immigration and the consequent
over-supply of labor.
Existence of a double standard
which sanctions only a poor living
in return for the hardest manual
labor and at the same time luxury
for persons who perform no useful
service whatever
Disregard of grievances of indi.
vidual employees and lack of machin
cry for redressing same.
Control by big Business over
both industry and state.
"Fear on the part of those in com
Portable positions of being driven to
poverty by sickness, accident or in
voluntary loss of employment.
"Ineffciency of workers on account
of lack of proper training.
Unfair competition from prison
and other exploited labor.
"The rapid pace of modern indus
try, which results in accidents and
premature old age.
Lack of attention to sickness and
accidents and the difficulty and delay
incident to securing compensation for
accidents under the common law and
the statutes of states which have not
adopted modern methods of dealing
with those questions.
Arbitrary discharge of employees.
"Blacklisting of individual en-
ployes.
Exploitation of women and chill
dren in industry
Promotion of violence by the use
of gunner, spies, and provokers
hired by employers.
Attempt to destroy unionism by
the pretense of the open shop
"Monopolization of land and nat
ural resources.
Suppression or free speech and
right of peaceful assembly"
On the principle of collective bar
gaining the investigators found vir-
tually all witnesses with the excep-
ton Of those representing the In
dustrial Workers of the World to be
in accord AS to any suggested meth
cd of application of that principle,
however, wide divergence of opinion
was noted. In this connection, the
report adds:
"a majority of the best informed
witnesses who have appeared before
the commission have insisted, how
ever, upon the necessity of securing
a proper basis upon which such col
lective bargaining can be carried outh
1t is impossible to analyze these sug-
gastions at this time, but it may
be well to note that practically all
of the most experienced witnesses
have insisted upon the necessity for
strong organization of both employ
ers and employees as a Fundamental
basis for the successful conduct o.
colIac.iva hargaining"