The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-28
Head of Industrial Relations Committee Points Out Duty of Citizenship to See That the Worker Gets Fruits of His Labors.
REPORT FOLLOWS 2
 YEARS OF INQUIRY
Industrial Dissatisfaction Has Reached Such Pro- portions As To Menace Peace of Nation The Remedies Are Shown.

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 Remedies Are Shown.
 Kansas City Mo. Aug. 2s.-Low wages was found to be the basic cause of industrial unrest in the report which Frank F. Walsh, chairman of sae Federal Commission on Industrial Relat1onss and the labor members of that bodys will present to Congress as result of the conaYnission's s two year 1nvestagaeion into the subject.
 The r&port eInbodyings the person al findings Of MT. Walsh and concurred In by Commissioners John B. LenI1 ons James OsConneIl and Austin B. Gar retson, was made public here today.
 ssThe workers of the nation. through Compulsory and oppressive methods, legal and Illegal are denied the full product of their toi1,' 1t was declared m the report and the resulting indus- trial dissatisfaction was said to have reached proportions that already menace the social good will and the peace of the nation." "
 Responsibility for the condition finder which they live was placed pri- uaariiy upon the workers Themselves. who blind to their collective strength ana oftentiues deaf to the cries of Azaefr followers have suffered explof- tation and the invasion of their most sacred rights without resistance. F kexve find Inc basis cause Of industrial safssatisfactfon 10 ba low wages. or Btated in another way, the fact that fthe workers of the nation, through scompulsory and oppressive nethods legal and Illegal are denied the full product of eEaeir toll.
 we farthar find that unrest among The workers in industry has grown to proportions that already menace the social good will and the peace of the 2 saataon. Citizens numbering millions sszaaFt under sense of injustice and oppression.
 saThe extent and depth. Of indus trial unrest can hardly be exagge- rated state and nationa1 conven- tions of labor organizations, number ing many thousands Of members. have Eheered the names of leaders inpris- bned for participation In a campaign bf violence. conducted as one phase of conflict with organized eInploy- CTS
 sEmpIoyers have created and main eaIned small private armies and used these forces to in1imidate and sup press their striking e1np1oyes by de- porting, inprisonfng.S assau1ting and killing their leaders. Elaborate spy systems are maintained to discover and forestau the movements of the 1icing strikes has bred bitter hostil- dty to the militia. system.
 sssCourts, legislatures, and goyernors have been r1ghtfuIly accused of serv- dng employers to the defeat of justice, and, while counter char ges come from most pegligIbIe exceptions, 1t is the wage earners who believe assert and prove that the very institutions. of their country have been perHerted by the power of the employer
 ITO the support of the militant and
  labor, has come, within recent years a small but rapidly increasing host of ministers college professors, writers. ! Journalists and others of the profes-4E Eiona1 classes, sdnguihed in many instances by exceptional talent which 1 they devote to agitation, with no hope Of material reward
 we find the unrest here described to be but the latest manifestation of the age-1ong struggle of the race for freedom of opportunity for every in dividuaI to live his life to it's high est ends.
 ssThe unrest of the wage earners has been augmented by recent dI1an- ges and developments in industry. Chief of these are thesrapid and uni- Nersa1 introduction and extension of f1aachinery, by which unsk1l1ed work ers may be substituted for the skilled and an equally rapid deve1opm ent of means of rapid transportation and connnunications by which private cap ktaI has been enabled to ornagize in great corporations
 work formerly done at home or in small 7ieighborhood shops, has been transferred to great factories where l the evil worker becomes an 1nperson- al element under the control of i'm personal corporations. Women in fn- creased numbers have followed their work from the home to the factory l And even children have been enlist ed6
 ssNow, more than ever. the profits l of great indusTies under centralized | control pour into the coffers of stock | holders and directors who never have | SO much as visited the plants, and who | 4serform no service in return And | while vast inherited fortunes, repre- | Bentfng zero in social service 10 the credit of their possessors. automa4i- ! Ea1ly treble and multiply in volume, 1 two thirds of those who toll ] From eight to twelve hours a day, I receive less than enough to support l thernseIves and family in decency and | comfort
 ! eve dnd that many entire comnnu- I ! mites exist under the arbitrary eco homie control Of corporation officials | charged with the management of an | industry or group of industries and | Ese find that in such communities pol Aitfcaa liberty does not exist. and it's | forms are hollow nockeries.
 ssIn larger communities where es- p1onage becomes impossible, the wage earneR who fs unsupported by a coI- 1 7eckfve organization naay enjoy free- dom of expression outside the work E shop, but there his freedom ends And | it is a freedom more apparent than real For tIs house he Mves-in, the | food hs eats. the clothing he wears. che environment of his wife and ch1l- a7ren. and his own health and safety are in tl1e hands of the employer, | Through the arbitrary power he exer- csnas tn &11ns haa a@es and wex xlEdns1i