The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-08

While virtually unanimous agree ment of witnesses was found in favor of the formation of Federal Comnnis- sion of Mediation and Cancellation, the report points out that practically every witness has expressed the strongest disapproval> of any form of compulsory arbitration Arbitration was suggested only as 8 lest resort and then to be purely voluntary. Wit nesses agreed that mediators should be bipartisan, that they should have full power of tnvesti igation, that their contact with industry or industries with which they are expected to deal should be@as nearly continuous as pos- sibIe, that they should, if possible, act before a dispute has come to a, head, and that adequate inducements should be offered to obtain the best possible Iplan.
 t"The testimony of a majority of the employers was in favor of a rule sim liar to that of the Canadian Indus trial Disputes Act, which prohibits strikes and 1ockouts in public utilities pending investigation by the media tors, assisted by representatives of the employers and employees. Such ia law is uniformly opposed by the represen- tatives of labor on the ground that IS also insisted that such a delay would be in violation 9of that provision of the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits involuntary servi-. tude.''
 Regarding trade unions and en- p1oyers' associations, the commissi on announces that it is making a compre- hensive study of a large number of typical organizations. The commissi on says:
 and unions grave charges of serious import to the welfare of the country. if they be proved true, have been laid before the coTnmisSi on, and it is only J-3,, and unrelenting examination that the facts can be developed, and such ex- animation we are now prosecuting
 The commissions experts also are looking into questions of unorganized labor, scientific management in shops. as it effects employees, women and children in industry, land problems, unemployment, social legislation and labor and the law Of unemployment the report says:
 Nothing comes so clear to the con- mission as the. imperative necessity of organizing a market for labor on a modern business basis, so that there will be no vacant jobs and idle work CTS in the same community at the same time, or within distance where the transportation is practicable. The consensus of opinion is that Iegis1a- ton for a. national system of labor exchanges is an immediate necessity. The plan of the commission proposes to establish a bureau of employment in the Department of Labor, which would cooperate with state and muni-. cipal employment offices, regulate private agencies doing interstate business, and establish clearing houses. for distributing information, uniting all labor changes into one national system
 Proposals for Constructive legisIa- ton, the report announces will be submitted to Congress covering labor exchanges; Industrial Education, vo- cationaI GuidanceX ands Apprentice ship; Safety Sanitation, Health of Employees and administration of laws relating thereto; Smuggling of Asiatics; Meditation, Consolidation and Arbitration; Woman and Child Labor, Minimum Wage, Hours of Labor; Agriculture and Farm Labor; Social Insurance, especially workmen's sick ness. and invahdity insurances, and Labor and the Law.