Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-09-02


eial service of the entire rural COM
m,unity, assisting in the organization
of farmers and tenants for coopera-
tive purposes, and-pfoMoting other
measures looking to the Community
welfare.
! 5. The revision of the taxation sys-
TEN so as to exempt from taxation all
Improvements and tax unused land al
Ists4full reIaJdi .tlIIe.'
llSuppIemental Findings and Recon-
| mendations of Commissioners
| Lennon and O'ConnelI.
The Commission on Industrial Re.
lations today made public tie supple
imental findings and recommendations
iby Commissioners John B. Lennon
land James OConnell.
The Commissioners protest against
the claim that the faults that may ex-
list in trade union organic atoms c1n
iproperly be considered among the
eauses of industrial unrest, and assert
tthat such faults disappear as s. on as
FtIade unions are recognized and per-
Emitted to grow strong
i They urge strong labor orgaEiZa-
1
industrial unrest.
The supplemental report dissents
from the recommendation that a new
Federal Industrial commission b
lcreated for the administration Of all
labor laws. 1t urges that instead of
lereating new machinery, the Depart
lampler funds for carrying on it's
work.
| The supplemental report is signed
Frank Walsh, Chairman If the Com
mission
'1Our signatures are appended to
the report of Mr. Basil NJ Manly, Di
rector of Research and Investigation
of the United States Com mission o.
industrial Relations submitted to III
I commission at is sessi cid in Chi
cago during the months of July and
August, 1915, except hat portion of
the report recomme ending system OF
mediation, Cancellation, investigation
and arbitration applicable to bot
State and Nation which proposes tc
create commission of three mem
lbers, together Wit han advisory coun-
ell of 20 members 10 representing EN-
!ployees. The entire plan is set forth
Ito the Commission on Industrial Re
mission by Professor George E. Bar
sioner John C. Commons. From these
Recommendation we dissent for rea-
sons assigned in this stateent.
1c II %ol - -
Commission at public hearigs, to-
gether with the evidpce secured by
special investigators, has been fairly
set forth in Mr.. Manlyis report and
with eve INJUSTICE to all, whether en-
ployers, employees or the public"
4 Criticisms Not Justified.
Y "Our fellow Commiss toner's who are
representative of the employers, con
tend in their stateemnt that. the re
port of Mr. Basil M. Manly for the
staff is deficient in that ii daes no
. properly present an indictment
against labor on the grounds OF fos
: IFering and promoting violence in
trade disputes, jurisdiotional disputes
accompanied by strikes, contract
breaking, apprenticeship rules, refusal
to use non-union materials, alleged
6Ann% oAu - AOIIu, d1lu LadL II uO6S
!, not include these things among the
fundame entail causes of industrial un
rest. All the evidence submitted to
the Commission, as we understand
and interpret it, proves that these
Things IN so far as they do exist are
in no sense causes of Industrial lln
rest but, on the contrary, are evf
Idences of existing industrial unrest
khok
ISttuabion wherein labor has at. times
been forced to fight with such weap
tOns as it could command for advan
Itages and rights that in justice should
BE freely accorded to the wage earn
Eers. SO long as labor organiZa lions
are forced by employers to fight fol
uhe mere right to exist, and SO long
as wages paid to labor are so low
! Nhat the unorganized wage Garner
often sees no choice except that be
tween resorting to such weapons OF
lseeing himself and his family sink be
low the poverty line, just so long will
these evils at times manifest them.
EselVes as Symphonic of the worker S
.. lheperation. The union, fighting for its
fright to live, is sometimes forced to
tolerate acts that would not be colln.
1enanced if its entity were secure and
its energies we're not absorbed in
fighting for existence.
Strong Organizations the Cure.
Experience shows that the evils
complained OF rapidly disappear in
labor organizations as soon as the or
lganlzataon prevails over the opposi
ton OF the employers and establishes
Its right to organize. Strong unions
Imean decent wages, and decent wages
lTalse wage earners to a plane OF
Thought and action where all their
acts and mental processes must NO
I4onger be directed toward adesperate
lstruggle for the very right of them.
selves and families to live.
Organized labor fully realizes how
unfortunate it is that labor in it's
tstruggle for existence has occasion
ially been driven to consider it's imme.
1late advantage at the expense of the
true economic principles that must
govern in the long rr1n Ail.+ho -.