The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-23
Denial of Justice to Worker
Causes TOiIers' Unrest.
Industrial Relations Board Ap-
plies Rod to Capital.
FOUR SOURCES OF TURMOIL
Employers Representatives Adj
NIT LabOr'S Grievances.
Commission, Divided, Issues
Report of 100000 Words.

Chicago, Aug. 23.-The present in
dustrial unrest is traced to four main
sources in the staff report of the
United States Commission on Indus
trial Relations.
Summaries of the commissions re-
ports, three in number, as to findings
and recommendations for the informa-
ton of congress, have just been made
public.
The commission ceased to exist to-
day.
The report of the representatives of
the employees, known as the staff
report, drawn UP by Basil M. Manly,
director of research and investigation
for the commission, was signed by
Commissioners Walsh, Lennon, O'Con-
nell and Garretson. In connection
with the main reports these commits
sioners issued three Supplemented
Opinions and Suggestions" as follows:
One by Mr.. Walsh. one by Mr.. Garrett
son. and one by Mr.. Lennon and Mr..
O'Connell Jointly.
Commissioners Are Divided.
The report of the commissioners
representing the public, and the sum-
mary thereof, were written by Com
missioner Commons. He and Mrs.
Hartman signed it without reserva-
ton. Commissioners Ashton, Ballard
and Weinstock approved it in large
part and in part their dissent to por-
lions of it, and to the Manly report
stock re ort, signed by Weinstock,
Ashton and Ballard.
The reports are identified as the
Manly, or staff report; the Commons,
or report of the commissioners for
the public, and the WeinStock report,
which among other things expressed
dissent from the findings of the other
two reports.
The Manly summary finds that the
causes of Industrial unrest group
7 N q Sa1URS almost without RXcRntlOn
under four main sources which in
clude all the others. They are:
Il. Unjust distribution of wealth
and income.
''2. Unemployment and denial of
to earn a living.
80. Denial of justice in the crea-
ton, in the adjudication and in the
administration of the law.
~. Denial of the right and oppor-
tunity to form effective organiza
TONS Remedies are suggested.
On the same subject the Commons
report says:
1.-The greatest cause of industrial I'M
rest is the breakdown of the labor
pal. state and national governments
on the part of a large portion of our
people" The report outlines a plan
for remedying conditions through the
Commission and Advisory Council
with comprehensive powers.
Labor's Grievances just.
The Weinstock report dissents from
the recommendation that the second
airy boycott should be legalized, finds
that employees have many just griev-
ances and are thoroughly justified in
organizing. 1t explains the prime OBJ
jections to recognizing and deal
ing with organized labor as follows:
sympathetic strikes, jurisdictionel dis
putes, labor union politics, contract
breaking, restriction of output, pro-
hibition of the use of nonunion made
tools and materials, closed shop, con-
tests for supremacy between rival
unions, acts of violence against nom
union workers and the properties of
employers, and apprenticeship rules.
Owing to its length it was impos-
sible for the printers to provide the
full summary of the Manly report.
This latter report consists of three
sections, only the first of which was
given out today. The second section
will be made public on August "a, and
the third section for publication on
August &c.
The full text of the three reports,
which contain an aggregate of more
than 100000 words, is in the hands of
the printer. and probably will not be
available to the public for several
days.
The commissions report contains
100000 words There were 740 wit
nesses.