Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-09

Unreasonable demands arising l from strength Of organization
 Labor leaders who stir up trouble to keep themselves in office and to graft on employers.
 "Ineniclency of workers, resulting 1 in ever Increasing cost of living.
 Rapidly increasing complexty Of industry
 ! Sudden transition of large nun. 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 coop eration.
 Violence in labor troubles.
 Sympathetic strikes and jurisdic- tional disputes. l "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 em- ployers' side is as follows:
 Normal and healthy desire for bet iter 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. 1 Unemployment. and the insecurity which the wage earner feels at all times
 Unjust distribution of the product of industry Exploitation of the ma ny by the favored rew Demand for full share of production
 Unjust attitude of police and courts.
 There is one law for the rich, an other 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 lab- or, and at the same time luxury for persons who perform no useful ser vice whatever
 Disregard of grievances of indi- vidual employees and lack Of machin- ehy for redressing same.
 Control by Big Business over both industry and State
 Fear on the part of those in com fortable positions of being driven to poverty by sickness, accident or in voluntary loss of employment
 "Inefficiency of workers on account of lack of proper training
 Unfair competition from prison .and other exploited labor f "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 de- lay incident to securing compensa- tion for accidents under the common law and the statutes of states which Ihaee not adopted modern methods of dealing with those questions.
 Arbitrary discharge of employees.
 Blacklisting of individual employ es.
 Exploitation of women and chil- dren in industry.
 Promotion of violence by the use of gunmen, spies, and proyokers hired by employers.
 Attempt to destroy unionism by the pretense of the open shop
 "Monopolization of land and natur. al resources.
 Suppression of free speech and right Of peaceful assembly.
 On the principle of collective bar gaining the inyestogators found vir tually all witnesses with the excep tion of those representing the Indus trial Workers of the World to be in accord. As to any suggested meth ods of application of that principle however wide divergence of opinion was noted, In this connection the re port adds:
 "A majority of the best informed witnesses who have appeared before the commission have insisted. how - ever, upon the necessity of securing proper basis upon which such col