New Britain herald., 1915-08-28
LOW WAGES CAUSE
 INDUSTRIAL UNREST
Workers Primarily to Blame for
 Conditions, Says Walsh

Kansas City. Mo-, August 2S.- Low wages was found to be the basis of industrial unrest in the re- port which Frank P. Walsh, chair man of the Federal Commission on industrial relations, and the labor members of that body, will present to congress as a result of the com missions two year investigation in- to the subject
 The report, embodying the personal findings of MT. Walsh and concurred in by Commissioners John B. Lennon James O'Connell and Austin B. Gar retson, was made public here today.
 Menace Peace of Nation.
 The workers of the nation, through compulsory and oppressive methods legal and illegal, are denied the full product of their toil." 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.'
 Responsibility for the condition un- der which they live was placed pri- marilY upon the workers themselves who blind to their collective strength and oftentimes deaf to the cries of their followers, have suffered ex- ploltat1on and the invasion of their l most sacred rights without resistance" Report in Part.
 The report in part follows:
 We find the basis cause of indus trial dissatisfa ction to be low wages or stated in another way. the fact no through compulsory and oppressive methods, legal and illegal are denied the full product of their toll.
 We 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
 Hardly Be Exaggerated
 The extent and depth of industrial unrest can hardly be exaggerated. State and national conventions of labor organizations. numbering many thousands of members, have cheered the names of leaders Imprisoned for participation in a campaign of vio- lence. conducted as one phase of 2 conflict with organized employers
 Employers have created and main tanned small private armies and used these forces to intimidate and suppress their striking employees by deportins, impriscning, assaulting and killing their leaders. Elaborate spy systems are maintained to discover and fore stall the movements of the enemy. The use of state troops in policing strikes has bred a bitter hostility to the militia system.
 Serving Employers.
 Courts legislatures. and governors have been rightfully accused of serv- ing employers to tho defeat of justice, and, while counter charges como from employers and their agents. with almost negligible exceptions. it is the wage earners who believe, assert and prove that the very institutions of their country have been perverted by the power of the employer.
 ITO the support of the militant and aggressive propaganda of organized labor, has come. within recent years small but rapidly incree sing host of ministers, college professors. writers, journalists and others of the profes- sional classes. distinguished in many instances by exceptional talent which they devote to agitation, with no hope of material reward.
 Struggle for Freedom
 "We find the unrest here described to be but the latest manifestation of the age-long struggle of the race for freedom of opportunity for every in Gividual to live his life to its highest ends.
 The unrest of the wage earners has been augmented by recent changes end developments in industry. Chief Cf these are the rapid and universal Introduction and extension of ma chincry, by which unskilled workers may be substituted for the skilled, and all equally rapid development of means of rapid transportation and communication, by which private capi-