Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-23
INDUSTRIAL WAR
IS DISCUSSED
BY FRANK WALSH
Head of Government Commits
sion Tells Of Facts Learned
at Investigation Conducted
in Various CenterS,


Kansas City. Dec. 23.--''We want
peace in American industry. but we
do not want peace at any price" said
Frank Walsh. chairman of the feder-
al commission on industrial relations.
in an address before the City club to-
day in which he commented on the
labor situation in Colorado.
I'VE want peace to rest on those
primal rights that are the basic rea-
son for government A settlement of
the Colorado difficulty on any other
basis than the happiness and the
rights of man, | will always pro-
test"
Mr.. Walsh painted a vivid picture
of the intimate view the commits
sion is gaining of the Industrial stu
alton. its intricacies and its imminent
dangers.
Industrial Unrest.
"Our recommendation will amount
to little, the facts we assemble will
amount to much" he said. He point
ed out that the very law which Gre
ated the commission implied the ex-
istence of Industrial unrest.
Mr. Walsh told the story of two
witnesses. one following the other.
who appeared before the commission
at Paterson. N. j. One. he said, was
a young man, an American. the pro-
duct of American schools, a leader in
"A militant labor organization.
"He blandly stated that in defense
against what he termed the violence
of capitalism explained Mr.. Walsh
"he would have no hesitancy in blow
ing up the great marble court house
"a OF lie
he stood, unafraid. unashamed and
glad to say what he did. He had no
thought of the possible loss of human
life, of Violence to American inst-
tutions. of the constitution and the
guarantees given to honesty and
thrift.
Opposed to Agitators.
scarcely had the horror of his
statement passed from his hearers
when a man, bearing the marks of
honesty, who for forty years had
dealt with the men Of organized la
Dor and dealt fairly with them, came
on the stand He said he knew labor
violated contracts at
times, but that for every contract Vi
olated by the men ten contracts had
been violated by organizations of en-
poyers, his associates.
What ! am opposed to- he testi-
fed, is the coming in Of outside agi-
'He was asked to pass on what
was violence to law and order and
who were undesirable agitators. But
he held to his Views as deliberately
and as cooly as the young man who
would blow up the court house to
gain a single strike
f. What safeguards have we more
than those which safe
guard human rights and human hap
piness? My property is no good to
me unless | have the basic right of
human freedom"
Looks Hopefully to Future.
1--WE are concerned Mr.. Walsh as
serted. "in the fact that thousands
Of people today are occupying cold
and dismal camps because of an ef
fort. wise or unwise. to better their
condition We are concerned too, in
The destruction of millions of dollars
worth Of the primal products of the
earth. But we are more concerned
with the breakdown of the balance
If power. that control which the
state was supposed to exercise. We
may get rid of the sores. but what of
he courts making a byword and
Missing of the constitution ?''
II look hopefully to the future"
ne concluded. Ito an intelligent cleo
.orate, more and more taking into its
,wn hands that which is really its
,wn affair.