Evening journal., 1915-08-28
FIND Low Wages
basic Cause Of
LABOR 5 UNREST
Faction of Federal Industrial
Relations Commission De-
nounceS Big Employers
SCORES Use OF MILITIA
IN STRIKE CLASHES

: EXCERPTS FROM FINDINGS \ !, >,

, ENCERPIS FROM FINDINGS
. OF INDUSTRIAL REPORT.
The extent and depth Of indus .
. trial unrest can hardly be exag-
: gerated. We have encountered
. spirit, religious In It's feryOr and
. in It's willingness TO sacrifice all !
. for n cause held sacred.
Thirty thousand workers In
. single strike have followed a
. leader who denounced govern
ment and called for relentless
warfare ON organized society.
The lives Of workers babies are
snuffed out by bad air In cheap =
lodging houses, and by lack OF '
nOurishment and necessities they
cannot buy.
Fathers and husbands die or
are manned In accidents and their :
families receive a pittance.
We find many communities ex-
ist under the arbitrary economic =
control Of corporation officials
charged with management Of an
. industry or group Of industries
and we find that I'm such COM
munities social and political lib
erty does not exist and its forms
are hollow mockeries.
.
BY the United Press.
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 2s.-"we int
the basic cause Of industrial dissatis
faction TO be low wages. or, stated IL
another way. the fact that the work
ers of the nation. through compulsor!
and oppressive methods, legal and IL
! legal, are denied the full product o
/ their toll"
This sums up report made today b
Chairman Frank Walsh, OF the nov
extinct Federal Industrial Relation
Commission. Il comprises the per
sonal findings Of Walsh and Is signe
by Commissioners Lennon, O'Conne
and Garretson. in their reports
Congress.
The report denounces big employer
OF great wealth who refuse TO pei
NIT unionlzation OF their employe
and who pay small wages to breai
winners OF families. while they enjo
plenty. although they never eve
visit their shops"
IL makes the rather startling deI
laration that unrest among the wOrl
ers in industry has grown to propol
tions that already menace the socif
good will and peace of the nation"
The report scores the employmer
OF the state militia in strike situs
tions, declaring that this method "ha
bred a bitter hostility 10 the militi
system among members of labor OF
ganizations and states have been ur
able 10 enlist wage earners TO this sec
ond line of the nations defense"
declares employers from coast .
coast have created and maintaine
small private armies of armed men I
suppress striking employees by dc
porting, imprisoning. assaulting an
killing their leaders"
"The employer spy system Is dl
clared to be one Of the create.
fomenters Of suspicion and dlstrui
among workers for their employer
Courts, Legislatures and Governor
the report charges have been righ
fully accused Of serving the emplo!
ers to defeat justice and prevent II
institutions of the country"
Citizens numbering millions" say
! iit ltpuIAi smart uuutI a htnnt
injustice and oppression
I'VE find the unrest described
be but the latest manifestation
the age-long struggle of the rae
for freedom of opportunity for ever
individual to live his life TO its higl
est ends. AS the mobiles Of EnglaT
wrung their independence from Kir
John and as the tradesmen Of Franc
broke through the ring Of privilel
enclosing the three estates so 4
day the millions who serve socie
in arduous dispatch in highwa!
aloft on scaffoldings and by the sid
of whirring machines. are deman
ing that they too, and their childre
shall enjoy all of the blessings IN
justify and make beautiful tn
life
"And while vast inherited fortum
, representing zero in social service TO I
q credit of their possessors, automatica
treble in volume, two-thirds of tho
p who toll from eight to twelve hours
day receive less than enough to 81
, port themselves and their families in {
cency and comfort. From cradle TO
grave they live in shadow of the f.
{ that their only resource-their opportr
. ity to toil-shall be taken away fr,
: them through sickness, caprice Of fo
man, or the fortunes of industry"