New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-29
job Famine
For Soldiers
Is Predicted
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preston Of the economic discomfort of
the peasant and common labor classes.
Those Of lis who believe in democracy
rs contrasted with autocracy and an
archy should waste no time 1t is our
task &c discover the real causes for
these movements and point out the So
c1al reconstruction which will remove
hem.
"The sufferings which the workers
have endured because of irregular en-
Nloyment have been many times greater
than is necessary. They are one Of the
decp-seated causes of bitterness among
workers. They arc a sin against hu-
man;ty. For which our civilization will
pay a dear price if they are allowed TO
continue.
Permanent Plan Needed
During the war the government es-
tablished an employment service. and
they are trying to organize the labor
market: but we must not lose sight of
the fact that that service is a piece of
war machinery. rather than piece of
economic machinery; it was not estab-
lshed to hip solve either the employ
ers' or the employees employment prob
lem, but to facilitate the transfer of
labor from non-essential to essential
industries in war time. 1t had wan
function, not an economic function. We
deVOutly hope that the United States
Employment Service will be perpetual
ed and developed into a permanent sys-
TEN of control over the labor market >
OlNlway Tead OF the Bureau of In
dust-ial Reseorch, Washington. said:
we can create permanent and
effective Federal employment service
We can integratc industries so tina,
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relation to a known demand We car
guard against any remaining risk OF
ldleness through unemployment insur-
ancc. This is the irreducibe minimum
. IT we are sincerely eager to take from
people the horrible dread that they vii
have no bread to cat because no mar
viii hire them.
English Plan Favored
THE Federal Employment Service
must be made by law permanent
national agency, adequately financed
competently organized and ably led
A definite part of the Legislative pro
gramme of the next Congress Shout,
be q bill creating this service. admin
istered by separate bureau of the
/ Department of Labor. under an execu
tive directly responsible to the Secre
tary of Labor and appoifted by HIM
sary civil service regulation. All thi.
Will do little more than make perman
ent the organization which the wal
emergency has evoked"
Mr. Tead further urged the creation
in America of the industrial councils
already begun in England. These are
governing bodies for each great in
dustry made up OF representatives O.
capital, labor and the state. Their pur
pose is to regulate the standards OF
/ employment. hours, wages. etc. deter
mine the terms of apprenticeship. Sc
cure constant employment by centraliz
/ ing all demands for workmen, system
atize and limit production to the mar
, ket for goods, and uq .cken and enlarge
distribution.
The purpose Of these councils in Eng
land has been primarily to meet the
competition of other countries and te
/ give labor presentation in the manage
ment of industry Mr. Tead pointed
out that unless industry in the United
States takes similar action it canno
hope to compete in the worlds mar
ketS during the next quarter of a cen
fury.
Speaks On the Open Door
William Smith Culbertson, membe,
OF the United States Tariff Commits
SION spoke on THE Open Door anC
Colonial Policy" He advocated tn,
formation of League of Nations
which would adopt by GENERAL treat,
the prlnclpie of the open door and un
conditional most favored nation treat
ment, with advisory and administrative,