Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-08-15
FINDS CONDITIONS
AMONG WORKERS
ARE DEPL0RAbLE
One Third of the Working
Men of Nation in State
of Poverty.
20 PER CENT SCHOOL,
CHILDREN UNDERFED
Two Per Cent of the People Own 60
Per Cent Of the Wealth. and g. Per
Cent Live on Less Than ) Per
Cent of the COuntry's Wealth.


cord ana confusion making futile ev-
cry effort of members of the United
States commission of industrial rela-
lions to reach an agreement, that
body ended it's existence today by
sending to congress three separate
and distinct reports of the work OF
investigation into the nations indus
trial conditions, in which it has been
engaged for almost three years.
Three statements setting forth the
views of certain individual members
of the commission were also submit
led, and will be included in the docu
ments sent to congress.
Indications during the last hour of
Me commissions existence that an
agreement might be reached on GER
tain points of difference were swept
aside when Mrs. J. Borden Hartman
announced that she would not agree
to any official report that did not
contain the prime features of the
tentative report which John R. Com
mons, professor Of the University OF
Wisconsin,, had submitted.
Mrs. Hartman held the controlling
vote in the commission, and her an
nOuncement removed whatever lin
gering hopes other members of the
body held that they might come to an
understanding.
The staff report to congress, signed
by Chairman Walsh and three other
commissioners. is said to be the only
one of the three documents that con-
tains a set statement of facts on con-
dtons which the testimony before
Me body is declared to have revealed.
Conclusions of Commission.
Among these conclusions are the
following:
One-third of the workingmen of the
nation are in state of poverty many
of them in abject want, with living
conditions that constitute liability
instead of an asset to the Industrial
situation of the. country.
Twenty per cent of the school chill
dren are underfed, and live in sur
roundings that tend to lower rather
than raise the standards of citizen
ship
Two per cent of the people of the
United States own 60 per cent of Its
wealth.
Sixty-five per cent of the people
live on less than per cent of the
country's wealth.
Labor and living conditions in in
1ustrial centers are such that immi-
grafton should be restricted to in
habitants of Italy, Austria and Hun
gary.
One-half of the employed women OF
the country receive wage of not
more than Sc week.
In the city of New York one in ev-
cry ten persons dying is buried In
the potters' field.
Advocates secondary Boycott"
In the report signed by Prof. Com
mons and Mrs. Hartman. the legal
izing of what is termed secondary
boycott" is advocated. Commission
ers Weinstock, Ballard and Ashton
disagreed on this point, designating II
as a vicious and dangerous princi
Pile.
The Weinstock report admits thai
some employers are guilty of wrong
1oing and that they have used ques'
tionable means to prevent their EN-
yloyes from organizing into unions
It says further that instances have
been found where women employees
have been exploited and that the!
have paid wages that are to-
low to both men and women; have
employed gunner to quell labo
troubles, and pitted prison labol
against that of competing industries
| We attributes industrial unrest t.
these causes, but finds that employ
yrs are awakening to these causes ant
exerting efforts of their own initiative
to remedy the evil.