The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-08-26
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/ the commission he would not be re
appointed. In the case Of the profess
sor In the other university (which
! though privately endowed. receives
large appropriations from the state)
we know that its trustees are interest
ed in corporations which have bitter.
| ly opposed progressive legislation
and are men whose incomes are de-
rived from property ownership and
not from service.
As To Strike Breakers.
THE immediate cause Of violence
in connection with industrial disputes
is almost without exception the at
tempt to introduce strikebreakers to
take the place of the workers who
have struck or who are locked out
The entire problem of policing in
dustrial disputes grows out OF the
problem Of the strikebreaker and the
attitude of the State toward him.
"All experience shows that If no at
tempt Is. made. to operate the plant
violence and disturbances requiring
the police are practically unknown
whereas the attempt OF strikebreak.
ers to reach the plant, particularly
| where strikers are enjoined or pre-
vented from using reasonable means
| to inform them of the existence of the
strike and to use persuasive methods
to keep them from entering the plant
! Is invariably accom- panied by disorder
and sometimes by active violence.
THE plea of the workers for the as
sumption CT new attitude in relation
to strikebreakers is based not only
upon the negative character of the
rights of the employer and the strike
breaker. but upon a positive though
somewhat undefinable demand for rec
ognition that strikers have right tc
the jobs which they have left until
their grievances are in some way ad
justed. The argument is not only that
when workers are willing to strike
and sacrifice their livelihood, the con.
ditions against which they protest
must be assumed to be socially in
furious, but, even more, that the work
err who has struck in support of his
demand for better conditions has not
abandoned his job, but, in fact, has
keener interest in it than when
quietly submitting to distasteful con
| ditions."
As To immigration.
Discussing immigration, the repor,
| urges restriction based upon the gen
eral provisions of the so-called Bur
| nett-Dillingham bill. 1t recommends
l. "The enactment Of Legislation
! providing for the restriction Of immi
grafton based upon the general pro
visions contained in the so-called Bur
nett-Dillingham bill, which has receiv
ed the approval Of two successive
Congresses. With a full realization
of the many theoretical objections
which have been urged against the
literacy test, the consensus of evi
dence is SO strong that it's practica
workings would be to restrict immi
grafton to those who are likely tt
make the most desirable citizens, tt
regulate immigration in some degree
| in proportion to the actual needs o.
American industry, and finally t
promote education in Europe, that il
seems necessary at least to urge thai
this plan be given a practical test.
! 2. THE enactment of Legislation
providing that within six months from
the time of entry all immigrants shall
be required, under penalty of depor
tation, either to declare their inten
ton to become citizens by taking ou
their hrst papers or to definitely reg
lister themselves with the proper au