Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-21
Chairman Walsh of Industrial
Relations Commission Re-
plies to Harris Weinstock.
OUTLINES THE CHARGES
AGAINST EMPLOYERS
Says Accusations Are Included in
Statement Signed by Member
Who Criticises.

KANSAS CITY Mo, August I'll
What he regarded as adverse criticisms
of the advance summary of the main
report of the United States commission
on industrial relations. contained in a
statement recently issued by Harris
Weinstock of the commission. has
brought forth a statement from Frank
P. Walsh, the chairman, in which he
declared admissions of bribery of
courts and legislatures. conspiracy. the
exploitation of women and children,
the employment of gunner, the sup
preston of free speech, and the COM
mission of other social crimes against
labor are made in that part of the re-
port to Congress framed by Harris
weinstock. Richard H. Ashton and S.
Thurston Ballard.
Reports by Dissenting Groups.
The commissions reports to Congress.
Of which there are three, were signed
in Chicago recently by the dissenting
groups of the commission. The COM
mission was made up of three repre-
sentatives, each of the public. the en-
ployers and the employed Ballard.
Weinstock and Ashton were the repre-
sentatives of the employers.
The revelations in the Weinstock re-
port" Mr. Walsh said. will come IS a
shock to that employing class that has
been busy denouncing the advance
summary of the main report of the
commission signed by myself and three
other members of the commission, as a
pro-labor finding. AS matter of fact,
every admission-or confession-con-
tanned in the report of the representa-
tives of employees was based on the
findings of the staff of investigators
upon which the main report is based.
and these admissions and confessions
ings which in the main report were
hailed in New York as radical and SEN
sational labor propaganda"
Charges Against Employers.
The charges against employers. made
by the employers representatives of
the commission, according to Mr..
Walsh. include the following:
That they have resorted to ques-
tionable methods to prevent their
workers from organizing.
That they have attempted to defeat
democracy by more or less successfully
controlling courts and legislatures.
That they have exploited women and
children and unorganized workers.
That they have resorted to all sorts
of methods to prevent the enactment
of remedial legislation.
That they have employed gunner in
strikes, who were disreputable char
acters, and who assaulted innocent
people and committed other crimes
most reprehensible in character.
That they have paid lower wages
than competitive conditions warranted
That they have worked their people
long hours and under insanitary and
dangerous conditions.
THAT they have exploited prison Ia
Dor at the expense of free labor.
That they have been contract break
ers with labor.
Attempt to Suppress Free Speech.
That they have attempted. through
the authorities, to suppress free speech
and the right of peaceful assembly.
That they have deliberately and for
selfish ends bribed representatives of
labor.
And that all of these things tend to
produce industrial unrest with all its
consequent and far reaching ills"
In addition to these charges against
the employers, the employers represent
tatives in their report say, according
to Mr. Walsh:
When labor is effectively organized
s. has two most powerful weapons at
its command, that the employer as a
rule breads and fears because of the
great damage these weapons can inflict
on him-namely, the strike and the
primary boycott, both of which are
within the moral and legal rights of
the worker to use.