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

labor organization. There are eight
cen detailed criticisms in this list
with an additional list of seven spe-
citic objections to present labor union
methods made by Industrial Workers
of the World.
Paralelling these lists, twenty one
detailed criticisms of employers or
Ganizations are presented, coming
from labor representatives. The labor
men, however, were unanimous in
favoring strong organizations to fur
ther collective agreements with en-
ployes
While virtually unanimous agree
ment of witnesses was found in ia
vor of the formation of a federal COM
mission of mediation and concilia-
tion, the report points out that
practically every witness has ex-
pressed the strongest disapproval of
any form of industrial arbitration.
Arbitration was suggested only as
last report and then to be purely
voluntary. Witnesses agreed that me-
diators should be bipartisan, that
they should have full power of in
vestigation, that their conduct with
industry or industries with which they
are expected to deal should be as
nearly continuous as possible, that
they should, if possible, act before a
dispute has come to head and that
adequate inducements should be Of
fered to obtain the best possible men.
"The testimony of q majority OF
the employers was in favor of a
rule similar to that of the Canadian
industrial disputes act, which pre-
hibits strikes and lockOuts in public
utilities pending investigation by the
mediators, assisted by representatives
of the employers and employees. Such
representatives of labor on the
ground that il is entirely in favor
of the employer, who utilizes the
period of delay to make preparations
for breaking the strike. It is also
insisted that such a delay would be
in violation of that provision of the
constitution of the United States
which prohibits involuntary servi-
tude."
Regarding trade unions and en-
ployers' associations, the commits
sion announces that 1t is making a
Der of typical organizations. The
commission says:
Against many of these associa-
tions and unions grave charges of
serious import to the welfare of the
country. if they be proved true, have
been laid before the commission, and
it is only by the most painstaking,
impartial and unrelenting eXamina-
ton that the facts can be devel-
oped, and such examination we are
now prosecuting"
The commissions Experts also are
looking into questions of unorgan-
lied labor, scientific management
in shops as ID affects employees, wom-
en- and children in industry, land
problems, unemployment, social leg
islation and labor and the law. OF
unemployment the report says:
Nothing comes so near to the
commission as the imperative neces-
sity of organizing a market for la
Dor on a modern business basis, so
that there will be no vacant jobs
and idle workers in the same COM
mmnity at the same time, or within
distance where the transportation is
practicable. The consensus of opin-
ion is that legislation for national
system of labor exchanges is an
immediate necessity. The plan of
the commission proposes TO establish
a bureau of employment in the de-
partment of labor, which would CO.
operate with state and municipal en-
ployment offices, regulate private
agencies doing interstate business,
and establish clearing houses for
distributing Information. uniting all
labor exchanges into one national
system"
Proposals for constructive legisla-
ton, the report announces, will be
submitted to congress covering labor
exchanges, industrial education, vo-
.cational guidance, and apprenticeship;
safety, sanitation, health of employ
es, and administration of laws re
lating thereto; smuggling Of Asiatics
mediation, conciliation, and arbitra-
tion; women and child labor, mini
mum wage. hours OF labor; agricul-
ture and farm labor; social insur-
ance, especially workmens' sickness
and invalidity insurance, and labor
and the law.