Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-09
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better. For some reason or other, no
one has yet suggested a national con-
ference of all labor elements, and of
all employing elements, to thresh out
their differences and to try to, reach
an agreement or understanding as to
where the industries of this country
are going. The Walsh industrial re-
lations commission travelled around
country and took testimony on this
line, but it is now almost forgotten,
so completely have conditions been
changed by the war. The Presidents
commission, headed by Secretary of
Labor Wilson, has returned from the
west with a series of valuable reports
on definite local strikes or wage dis
putes, but it has been merely trav-
cling grand jury, dealing with a few
charges only. The idea of a national
conference, representing everybody
with an industrial grievance, has never
been officially put forth. The trouble
seems to be that the employers stick
to the junker notion of mo compro-
mise" while the labor movement is
less willing to be led and disciplined,
except for fight, than ever before.
To Make Final Report.
Secretary Wilson's o m m i IN
which toured the west is to render its
final report to the President in about
a week. This report will deal with
the Arizona copper mine strikes and
the Bisbee deportations, the shipyard
strikes on the Pacific coast, the
Mooney case, the st. Paul general
strike which resulted from an order
by the state public safety commission
that union buttons should not be worn
by street railway employees, and the
threatened strike of the employees in
L. l.
and other cities.
The reports on Bsbee and the
Mooney case have already been made
public, in a preliminary way. Prcsi-
dent Wilson suggested, three months
ago, in the Bsbee case, that the mine
owners and managers who committed
the crime of deporting over 1000 peo-
pie from Bisbee be prosecuted. Moth
ing has happened. In the Mooney
case, accommodation was made that
the President call upon the California
state officials to see that Mooney is
given "A new trial, free from suspic-
ion of "frame-up," so that the un-
rest in this country and in Russia
which has been due to agitation
against his unfair conviction shall be
quieted. The California authorities
will probably not act with any no
ticeable haste.
/. w. w. Making Trouble.
Even if the Mooney case be righted,
and his sympathizers in Russia and
in other parts of the world be salts
fed that he is not to be hanged or
kept in prison, the state department
will probably be obliged, soon, to show
astonishment that the trial of the 166
officers and organizers of the /. w.
W., under indictment in Chicago for
Conspiracy" has attracted far more
attention in Russia than here.
Several of the |. w. w. who were
indicted, last fall, and who were never
caught, were Russian citizens, and are
now in Russia and are active in the
Bolsheviki movement. Others who
were indicted, and who were Amerl-
can citizens, are also in Russia, or in
neutral countries. If the Mooney case
and the Berkman- Goldman cases have
caused some excitement over there, the
/. w. w. prosecution will probably get
| its own share of advertising in the
Bolshevik press.
Congressional CamOufiage.
In the face of the worlds rapid
swing toward abor-controlled democ-