Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-04-21
EMPLOYER and EmpIoye.


The problew of the employer and the employee is
in process OF solution it has been for years
hut it is apparently nowhere it The best pro-
posed solution that has so far been offered by
monte students is nothing than modus vivend.
All plans suggested depend for their successful
Grafton upon the human factor and until the human
factor has greatly changed, and cannot observe
il has changed at all. there will necessarily be
breaking down of plans with loss to both employer
and employe though the innocent bystander the con-.
spmer must a share of the loss of the employer
and must also bear the greater share of the incon
Nenience consequent upon the turmoil.
When labor first organized against the oppres-
sion of individual employers it necessarily organized
for fight and when, later the employers organized,
they too organized for fight. 1t is that the
sanitation both sides for self-protection,
protection against other, the fight has
going since-sometimes, only beneath the
surface and sometimes in open, outbreaking and
pensive warfare. Sometime perhaps there will
to both sides full realization of the value of
hearty and systematic cooperation a of
stopping the waste of industrial war, but until that
time comes we shall have sporadic industrial and
we may say only sporadic industrial peace.
In the meantime, neither side should take meas
ures for strengthening its position that calculated
to provoke aggressive by the other for that
viii only add to the expense of the warfare well
its bitterness should avoid giving unnec-
essary offense to the other. And until
when there be permanent peace there should
De armed truce during which each side should
refrain from encroachments and provocative acts
provocative is to undertake the unionza-
ton of a whole community to drive the union
Of positions it has peacefully occupied Another pro-
vocative act is the employment of the boycott, the
IN
are fundamentally and one of them, the black
list is prohibited by the laws of this state The boy
colt and picketng should also be suppressed by law
and that be presented
70 the people this fall put upon them Such
measures should have the support of the by
stander, the -combatant for he vitay af-
fected by the evils that follow the employment Of such
methods
They do good to the side employing them but
harm. rather the side making of them We have
no doubt that the picketing of two small restaurants
Washington street during past month has given
unfavorabIe impression of unionism to many peo-
pie who had thought much about it before 1t has
also stirred employers other lines more bitter
antagonsm and it certainly has not favorably i'm
pressed strangers who have passed along the street
But, the law permits pcketing is the law
that must be criticised and not the union that makes
use Oh tie Jaw. lnere Is, however. duty Tor the
lice to perform and that see that this picketng
is carried without annoyance to passersby The
pickets should be made to comport themselves de-
Gently other who the sidewalks and to
refrain from Objectionable other persons are
required TO do, suffer the penalties disturbance
OF the peace
Employers and employees in isolated instances
Rave been wise enough to that cooperation and
friendliness mutually beneficial We have an in
STANCE of that in the relations Of the great firm of
Hart Schaffner and Marx with it's thousands of en-
poyes, story Of whose new three year contract APP
pears in another column. This is new plan, for
this firm and its employees have had operation
for some years. 1t has received the endorsement of
the federal industrial commission whose known
leaning toward organized labor should commend it to
labor, That the firm has found profitable should
commend it to all employers 1t therefore, offers prom
Use of a solution of the problem, and the solution
whatever ii shall be- be based like this plan on
mutual benefit and satisfied self-inerest and not ON
mys,eriously regenerated social conditions.