The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-10

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Ihe flnaI report and conclusions of
the commission will be submitted next
August when it's mission is conclud-
Basis of Conclusions.
These nine agreed auses were the
result of the examination of 514 wit
nesses divided in interest as follows:
with employers, 1871; affili-
with labor, 1873; not affiliated with
either group, $50. The witnesses in
seven members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World and six
representatives of the socialist party.
"What Employers Say"
Under the caption What Employers
Say" the report submits the following
summary of causes of unrest:
Normal and healthy desire Tor better
living conditions.
misunderstanding and prejudice. Lack
of conception that interests both labor and
capital are Identical.
Agitation by politicians and irresponsible
agitators.
Unemployment.
Unreasonable demands arising from
strength of organization.
Labor leaders who stir up trouble to
keep themselves in office and to graft on
employers.
'Inefficiency of workers, resulting in
ever increasing cost of living.
Rapidly increasing completely of in
dustry.
Sudden transition OF a large NUMBER OF
foreigners from repression to freedom,
which makes them an easy prey of la
Dor agitators.
Universal craze to get rich quick.
Decay of old ideas of honesty and
thrift.
characterization in newspapers.
Too much organization for c.ombative
purposes instead of for cooperation.
Violence in labor troubles.
Sympathetic strikes and jurlsdictional
disputes.
Boycotting and picketing.
Meddlesome and burdensome legisla-
The closed shop. which makes for la
Dor monopoly.
Final RESPONSIBILITY of labor unions.
What Employees Say.
Normal and healthy desire for better
living conditions.
Protest against low wages, long hours.
| insanitary and dangerous conditions eX-
listing in many industries.
Demand for industrial democracy, and
revolt against the suppression Of or
. Unemployed, and the insecurity which
the wage Garner feels at all times.
dustry.
Exploitation or the many by the Favored
Demand for full share of production.
Unjust attitude of police and courts.
There is one law for the rich, another
for the poor.
lllllIllSl "AtS- ~
supply of labor.
Existence of a 'double standard" whict
sanctions only a poor living in return
for the hardest manual labor. and at the
same time luxury for persons who per
form no useful service whatever.
Disregard of grievances of individual
employees and lack of machinery for re
Control by "big business over both in
dustry and state.
Fear on the part of those in comfort
able positions of being driven to povert!
by sickness, accident or involuntary los
Of employment.
Inefficiency of workers on account o
lack of proper training.
Unfair competition from prison an
other exploited abor.
The rapid pace of modern industry
which results in accidents and prematur
old age.
cidents, and the difficulty and delay in
cident to securing compensation for accl
dents under the common law and tn
statutes of states which have not adopte
modern methods of dealing with thos
questions.
Blacklisting of individual employees.
industry.
Promotion of violence by the use Q
gunner, spies and ~provokers hired by en-
ployeTs.
Attempt to destroy unionism by the pre-
tense of the 'open shop
Monopolization of land and natural re
sources.
Suppression of free speech and right c
peaceful assembly.