The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-08
Governors Proclamation
Calls On Legislature to
SolUe Labor Problems
Serious Situation Caused by Fuel Famine-Expenses
Must Be Provided For and Future Strikes Guarded
Against-Volunteer Miners Are Praised

the only alternative left to capital is the
lockout, either of which stops prodpc-
ton and leads to industrial warfare. Which
is often attended by many of the barbaric
features that have always characterized
warfare, ar ~,
these seventeenth century methods of soiy-
ing industrial problems. then you must
guarantee to laborerS and to employers q
Just tribunal in which their causes NAV
receive final and righteous judgment This
tribunal Ahould not have upon 1t repre-
sentative or either party to the quarrel !;
otherwise 1t could not be impartial; Its per-
connei must be composed of men of integri-
II and irreproachable character, of broad
sympathy, possessing high sense of justice,
who are IN ne way directly interested in
the issues involved and who. therefore can
hear and consider both sides of the ques-
ton while they are giving due cousidera-
ton to The paramount rights of the public.
Men may say that it is not possible to Sc
cure tribunal with such powers of just
and righteous Judgment as will be posses
sed@ by the tribunal which the Kansas
legislature viii be asked to create; doubt
would not be possible to secure, thru the
operation. of a criminal court, justice TO
causes which would be brought into that
thought therefw no better way of estab-
fishing property rule than the rule of the
strongest baron, yet today no man ques-
tons the efficiency of the criminal or the
Into this crowded hour there has come
social unrest that directs its attack upon
organized government. To meet it there
must be new standards, and these stan
dards must hold above all thihgs equal
and exact justice. We must not take away
from any man his personal. rights; and we
must not deprive men representing indus
try the privilege to organize for their own
betternent; but above the system as guar
antor of the rights Of all, must stand
government, and it alone must have the
power of final Judgment.
1t would be the most ironical episode
in the history of the world if the freest
government on earth should allow itself
to be trapped into a condition where all
OF its functions waited upon the quarrel
between the owners of some essential in
dustry and it's employees, while the people
froze, starved. or went naked because the
natural avenues of projections were stopped
by ruthless quarrel, In the making of
which the people had no part.
believe that the Kansas legislator, now
summoned to give deep consideration to
industrial, relations. will be able to create
IN bold outline a tribunal aud a code of
laws with sufficient power to be both
just and final.
Therefore, in view of this extraordinary
demand, ], Henry J. Allen, governor of the
state of Kansas, by virtue of the power and
aufhority vested in me by the legislature
OF the state of Kansas. do hereby call an
extraordinary session of the legislature of
this state to convene on Monday, January 5,
1sz0. at O'Clock p. m, az the state house,
In Topeka, Kansas.
{Signed)- HENRY J. ALLEN,
Governor.
Done at Pittsburg, Kan, this sth day of
December 1919