The farmer and mechanic., 1915-08-31
TO PRESENT REPORT
AT NEXT CONGRESS
Workers of Nation, Declares
Document, Through CompuI-
sorry and Oppressive Meth
DDS, Legal and Illegal, Are
Denied Full Products of
Their Toll
tBy the Associated Press.)

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. 29.-Low
wages was found to be the basic cause
of industrial unrest in the report
which Frank =. Walsh, chairman of
the Federal Commission on Industrial
Relations, and the labor members of
that body, will present to Congress
as n result of the commissions two
year investigation into the subject
The report embodying the personal
findings of Mr.. Walsh and concurred
in by Commissioners John r. Len
mon, James O'Connell, and Austin b.
Garretson, was made public here to-
day.
THE workers of the nation, through
compulsory and oppressive methods.
legal and Illegal, are denied the full
product of their toiG' it was declared
in the report, and the resulting in
dustrial dissatisfaction was said to
have reached proportions that al
ready menace the social good will and
the peace Of the nation" Responsible
ity for the condition under which they
live was placed primarily upon the
workers themselves who blind to
their collective strength and often
times deaf to the cries of their fol-
lowers have suffered exploitation and
the invasion of their most sacred
rights without resistance"
Commissions Report.
The report in part follows:
I'VE find the basic cause of indus
trial dissatisfaction to be low wages,
or stated in another way. the fact
that the workers of the nation through
compulsory and oppressive methods.
legal and illegal, are denied the full
product of their toll
I'VE further find that unrest among
the workers in industry has grown to
proportions that already menace the
social good will and the peace Of the
nation. Citizens numbering millions
smart under a sense of injustice and
oppression.
''The extent and depth Of industrial
unrest can hardly be exaggerated
state and national conventions Of la
Dor organizations. numbering many
thousands of members have cheered
the names of leaders imprisoned fol
participation in a campaign of vio-
lence. conducted as one phase of q
conflict with organized employers
Employers have created and main.
tained small private armies and use6
these forces to intimdate and SUP.
press their striking employees by de-
porting, imprisoning, assaulting, ant
killing their leaders. Elaborate SD,
systems are maintained to discove1
ana torestall the movements Of tn,
enemy. The use Of State troops i,
policing strikes has bred n bite,
hostility to the militia system
Justice Defeated
courts. legislatures. and governor
have been rightfuly accused of sery
ing employers to the defeat of Justice
and while counter-chafges come fror
the employers and their agents. wit
almost neglible exceptions. it is tn
waCe-earners who believe. assert an
prove that the very institutions n
their country have been perverted b
the power of the employer.
ITO the support of the militant an
aggressive propaganda Of organize
labor has come. within recent wear
small but rapidly increasing host {
ministers. college professors. writer
journalists. and others of the profes
sional classes. distinguished in man
instances by exceptional talent whic
they devote TO agitation, with no hor
of material reward
we find the unrest here describe
TO he but the latest manifestation
the age long struggle of the race f,
freedom of opportunity for every il
dividual to live his life to its highe
ends.
Industry Changed
THE unrest Of the wage-earner n
been augmented by recent chang
and developments in industry. Chi
Of these are the rapid and univers
introduction and extension Of machi
cry by which unskilled workers m
be substituted for the skilled. and
equally rapid development Of mea
OF rapid transportation and comm