Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

ELIMINATION OF PROFITEER|NC, EIGHT HOUR DAY AND BROADER
 UNDERSTANDING IS THE ADVICE

labor unrest and comes to these con cluSions:
 The conclusion cannot be escaped . that the available man power of the nation. serving as the industrial arm of war. is not employed to it's full capacity nor wisely directed to the energies of war.
 The effective conduct of the war suffers needlessly because of interrup- tion of work due to actual or threat. ened strikes, purposed decrease in ef- fieiency through the strike on the job. decrease in efficiency due to labor unrest. and dislOcation of the labor supply.
 These are net new conditions in American industry. nor are their causes new. The conditions anG their causes have long been familiar and long corrected. War has only served to intensity the old derangements by making greater demands upon indus try and by affording new disturbing factors.
 Among the causes of unrest. fa- miliar to students of industry the fol- lowing stand out with special signifi- canoe to the industrial needs of war:
 Broadly speaking. American indus try lacks a healthy basis of relation ship between management and men. At bottom this is due to the insistence by employers upon individual dealings with their men. Direct dealings with : employees organization is still the an.
 In the majority of instances there is no joint dealing. and in too many instances employers are in active op- position to labor organizations. This failure to eQualiZe the parties in ad- justments of inevitable industrial con tests is the central cause of our diffi- eulties. There is a cOmmendable spirit throughout the country to cor rect specific evils. The leaders in in- dustry must go further; they must help to correct the state of mind on the part of labor: they must sim for the release Of normal feelings by en- abling labor to take it's place as co-Operator in the industrial enter prise. In a word. a conscious attempt must be made to generate a new spirit of industry.
 Too many labor disturbances are due to the absence of disinterested processes to which resort may be had for peaceful settlement Force be- comes to ready an outlet. We need continuous administrative machinery by which grievances inevitable in in- dustry may be easily and quickly dis posed of and not allowed to reach the pressure Of explosion.
 There is a widespread lack Of knowledge on the part of capital as to labOrs feelings and needs. and on the part of labor as to problems of management This is due primarily to a lack of cOllective negotiation as the normal process of industry In addition there is but little realiza ton on the part of industry that the sO-called labor problem demands not only occasional attention but contin- uous and systematic responsibility. as much so as the technical or financial aspects of industry.
 "Certain specific grievances. when long uncorrected. not only mean defi- nite hardships: they serve as symbols of the attitude of employers and thus affect the underlying spirit Hours and wages are. of course, mostly in issue. On the whole, wage increases are asked for mostly in order to meet the increased cost of living. and such de mandS should be met in the light of their economical causes. Again. the demand for the eight-hour day is na- ton wide, for the workers regard it as expressive of an accepted national policy.
 "RePresSive dealing with manifes- tations of labor unrest is the source of much bitterness. turns radical lead CTS into martyrs and thus increases their following. and. worst of all. in the minds of workers tends to impli- cate the government as a partisan in an economic conflict. The problem is delicate one. There is no doubt. however. that the Bisbee and Jerome deportations. the Everett incident. the Little hanging. and similar acts Of violence against workers have had very harmful effect upon labor both in i the United States and in some of the allied countries. Such incidents are attempts to deal with symptoms rath. CT than causes. The l. W. W. has ex- ereised its strongest hold in those in- dustries and communities where em- plOyers have most resisted the trade union movement and where some form of protest against unjust treat ment was inevitable.
 | The derangement of our labor sup 1 ply is one of the great evils in indus try. The shockingly large amount of labor turnover and the phenomenon | of migratory labor means an enor- nous economic waste and involves an even greater social cost. These are evils which flow from grievances such as those we have set forth; they are accentusted by uncontrolled instabil- ity of employment Finally. we have failed tn the full use and wise direc-