Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-16
REFUSAL OF EMPLOYERS TO RECOGNIZE UNION RIGHTS
CAUSE OF INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES IN WESTERN STATES
IS REPORT OF MEDIATION COMMISSION TO PRESIDENT

be easily and quickly disposed of and not allowed to
reach the pressure of explosion.
Wage Increases Asked o Meet Living Costs
part of capital as to feelings and needs and on the
due primarily lack of collective negotiation the
e rea1on % on the part of ndusPp tRst be oo
called labor problem demands only occasional
ton but continuous and systematic responsibility as
much the technical financial aspects of industry
Certain specific grievances, when long uncOrrected,
the employers and thus affect the underlying
spirit Hours and wages Of course, mostly issue
On the whole wage increases are asked for mostly in
order the increased cost of living and such de
causes Rgan. the demand for the eigbtbour day is
nation wide for the workers regard of
'Repressive dealing with manifestations of labor un-
is the of much bitterness radical lead
martyrs and thus increases their following. and
worst of ALL in the minds of workers tends impcate
There is doubt, however, that the Bisbee and
Jerome deporatons the Everett incident the Little
ing and similar acts of violence against workers have
had very harmful effect labor both in the United
States and of the allied countries Such incidents
attempts to deal with symptoms rather than
industries and communities where employers have most
form Of protest against unjust treatment was inevitable
Labor Distribution System Is Remedy
The deFangemeRt of our % labor supply is one Of the
Of labor turnover and the phenomenon Of migratory
labor means an enormous economic waste and involves
from grievances such those have forth; they
accentuated by uncontrolled instability of employ
FINALLY. We have failed in the full use and wise
direction Of labor supply, falsely called
age. because have failed establish vigorous and
competent system Of labor distribution. However.
and added have recently provided
for better graphing with this problem
1t it, then. to uncurrected specific evils the alb
Sence Of healthy spirit between capital and labor due
partly these evils and partly unsound
structure that attribute industrial difficulties
which have experienced during the Sinister
uences and extremist doctrine may have avaied them
selves Of these conditions thy certainly have
them.
In fact, the overwhelming mass of the Iaboring
population is in disOyal Before the labor
was of filled with pacific hopes shared by nearly
the entire country But like other portions citi
zenship labor has adjusted itself to the facts
vealed by the European Its suffering its faith
& are the suffering AND THE FAITH OF THE NATION
THE MEN n THE ARMED SERVICE, THE GREAT
EST SACRIFICES HAVE COME FROM THOSE AT
THE LOWER RUNG OF THE INDUSTRIAL LAD
DER.
Wage increases respond last the needs of this
class Of labor, and their hardly
quate view of the increased of living maintain
their standard of life upon them the
pressure has borne severely.
Labor at heart devoted o the purposes of
the in the prosecution of this war as any
other part of society If labor enthusiasm less vocal
and its feelings here and there tepid will the
PLANTATION of the conditions of the
vronment in which labor is placed and which in many
instances is the activities of
he