Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-06
PLANS or ADMINISTRATION 70
CONTROL LABOR cAusEs
CONCERN.
EMpL DYING INTEREST
GET NO REPRESENTATION
Numere Adjustment Boards to Fix
Status OF Men Without Power Of
Employers to interfsre--Other Than
War Industries Directly Affected
Government Real Employer.
TBy f. q. Dougherty.l

Washington, Nov. 6.-The expected
announcement by President Wilson
further defining the relations between
employers and employees in industries is
employers over what they consider a
tendency to shape the permanent con-
troll of regulation OF relations between
capital and labor without the partici-
patton by the employers in the estab-
lishment OF fundamental principles.
1t is complained that of the eight or
ten adjustment boards dealing with in
dustr!al relations that have been es-
tablished by various departments,
bureaus and war administrations, not
one has a real representative Of the
employing interests. These adjustment
boards in conference are laying down
the fundamental principles that shah
govern the relations of employers and
employees and the president is expected
soon to issue a statement summing
them up.
While these principles are thus being
established there is being worked out
Nlt pdli'DhSS Va tlit NeA iSA5~-
policies board a system of joint boards
of employers and employees in the
principal trades. 1t was the intention
to have these boards establish the basis
Of amicable relations in their respective
trades, but by the time they are con-
stitutedy the principles which they will
be called upon to apply will have been
established by the existing adjustment
boards without representation Of the
employers.
Government Real Employer.
The adjustment boards have all been
constituted on the assumption that in
all the war industries the government
is really the employer. The general
principle of their organization Is the
appointment of one member to repre-
sent labor. one to represent the govern
ment and one to represent the public
interest. Thus it will. be seen that the
employer. himself, is left entirely out.
The result is that all the vast body OF
principles, wage schedules, hours and
interpretive decisions that have been
accumulated since the beginning OF
the war have been built up practically
without the aid or consent OF the man
ufacturers. In all cases except those
Of plants actually owned or com
Wandered by the government the men
charged with the actual responsibility
for administration and production
have been left out of the vital negotia-
, tons and determinations that are con-
stantly taking place.
In consequence OF the fact that all
changes of wages or hours or indus
! trial conditions in war plants affect in
dustrial relations in all other plants
end necessitate constant adjustments
! in them corresponding to the changes
made in plants where the government
controls adjustment it was deemed wise
| to establish the trade boards above
| mentioned. Now. it is feared, these
| boards will come into existence without
power to deal with basic principles.
| which is equivalent to saying that these
conditions will in the main have been
| fixed from the point of view OF labor.
The adjustment boards have been an
mated by a desire to settle quickly all
disputes tending to delay production.
| Without representation of the employ
| ing interests they have naturally tend
ed to concede major part OF labor's
| demands.
AS it is conceded that the national
labor policy that is being built up In
response to war necessities will pro-
| foundly affect all future relations be-
tween capital and labor. the employers
view the future with great apprehen-
sion. They fear that they will practic-
ally be forced to operate Under rules
and regulations in the framing Of
which they have had no part.
Jobs For Soldiers.
The national committee Of patriotic
| societies today sent forth an appeal to-
all patriotic societies and community
war organizations to appoint commit
tees to study the agricultural and in
dustrial opportunities Of their localities
with a view to having available for all
returned soldiers after peace is declared
good positions. The committee asserts
that when peace comes "our duty to
the soldier will soon be forgotten and
he will become the prey Of many pro-
motion schemes, exploited by unscrupu-
lous land agents and scheming lawyers
unless we today provide wisely for his
| future