Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-08-24
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
DISCUSSED IN PROFIT
General Conditions Of Wealth
and Unemployment Are
Fully Covered


dication and in the administration OF
law" and denial Of the right of effee-
tive organization, are ascribed as the
causes of industrial unrest by a report
Of the industrial relations commission
made public yesterday.
There are three separate reports upon
the work of the commission which rep
resents the conclusions reached after
three years of investigation. The re-
port containing the most drastic recon-
mendations was framed by Basil NJ.
Manly and signed by Chairman Frank
p. Walsh, John B. Lennon, james
O'Connell and Austin B. GarretsOn.
A second report was drawn by Com
missioner Commons and was endorsed in
full by Mrs. j. Borden Hartman and in
part by Commissioners Ashton, Ballard
and Weinstock. A supplemental report
was filed by Ashton, Ballard and Vein
stock, representing the employers, ex-
planning their views upon the Commons
report.
Discussing the unequal distribution
Of wealth the Manly report summarized
evidence showing that A families
possess aggregate income totalling at
least $5O,OO0,000 per year, while he.
tween one-fourth and one third of the
male workers in factories and mines.
lS years Of age and over earn less
than $40 per week, and only about one.
tenth earn more than $40 per week.
Of women workers me reTort says:
From two-third to threefourth of
women workers in factories, stores,
iaundries and industrial occupations
generally work at wages of less than
SS a week. Approximately one.fifth
earn less than 81 and nearly one.half
less than So week. The report
recommends enactment of an inberi.
tance tax so graded that "while mak.
ing generous provision for the support
OF dependents and the education ofI
MINOR children, il shall leave no LARGE
accumulation of wealth to mass into
hands which had no share in its prod.
uction.r P''u
Inc revenue from this tax. II isi
recommended, should be reserved for pv.
tension of education: develonment ~
otner important social features and de.
Nelopment OF cooperation with states
and municipalities in road building re.
Iorestration and irrigation.
There is no legislation which could
pe passed by congress the Immediate
and ultimate effects of which wouId he
more salutary and would more greatly
assist IN the tempering of the existing
unrest the report declares.
vigorous prosecution by the govern.
ment to recover all frandnlentlv boId
iahd, water power and mineral rights is
also recommended, together with 70.
VISION of land laws to apply the doe.
trlne of superior use " to ali grants
ihe report would prohibit or regulate
private detectives and agencies doino
business in more than one state nnder
the enploye Of company doing inter.
state business. Ii is also recommepdal
that an amendment to the federal legis,
lation be initiated protecting ''fhe
WIN OF habeas corpus, the right of mry
.l'1b tree speech, peaceful assemblage
70 keep and bear arms, to be free from
unreasonable searches and seizures 70
speedy public trial, freedom from ex.
cessivt bail and from cruel and nnrenol
punishments " ""u''"'
IL is further recommended that " con
sress Immediately enact by statute or
initiate constitutional amendment
speg,llically Prohibiting the courts from
tonal. ' "neohstitu
stuk,.
o., lnat congress enact that in all
aI"e,al aT m cases where the trial is by inry
Sn n gualltied voters in the district sbah
w. Included IN the list from which
iu'orS are selected and that thew shall
ov urawn by the use of wheel Nv
I'a'r It ueVice designed to promote abso.
lute impartiality '' "oSo'
Ihe Ballard report found tbe ;ra,,.
,,,"'!. j'"l unrest due to low wages, unem.
p'ol "eht through seasonable occrnn
saVus ana other causes, long hours IN
sanitary conditions and creo,;aS IN,
large industries "'''" Oh
trn.. Nv commons report held that dis.
anJ "S' ,1 vi me people and municipal state
IaIoI " iguorai governments in the present
90 'a'or Jaws was one of the great csmsns
tne Neinstock report deelarea a..
ss ,ihoyers ,h have lust grievances rs wall G
"s ",,. .ne employees and are mstiS;eS ~t,'