Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-11
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Hours Of Work

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Hours Of Work
The standard Of the work schedule
should be the week. varying as the pc
culiar requirements of individual indus
tries may demand. Overtime should. as
far as possible. be avoided. and one day
OF rest N seven should be provided.
Settlement Of Disputes
Each establishment should provide adj
equate means for the discussion of all
questions and the Just and prompt set
Element Of all disputes, but there should
be no improper Limitation or impair
ment Of the exercise by the manage
ment of it's essential function of judg-
ment and direction.
Right to Associate
The association Of men, whether OF
employers or employees or others, for
collective action or dealing confers no
authority and involves no right CT COM
pulsion over those who do not desire
TO act or deal with them as an asso-
citation. Arbitrary use of such collec-
tive power to coerce or control others
without their consent lis an infringe
ment Of personal liberty and menace
to the institutions of free people.
Responsibility Of Associations
Every association. whether OF EN-.
ployers or employees, must be equally
subject to public authority and legally
answerable for its own conduct or that
Of its agents.
Freedom Of Contract
With the right to associate recogni3-
ed, the fundamental principle of indi-
vidua, freedom demands that every per-
son must be free to engage in any law
full occupation OF enter into airy law
full contract as all employer or an en-
Ilo' and be secure in the continuity
and rewards OF his effort.
The Open Shop
The principles Of individual liberty
and freedom of contract upon which
our institutions are fundamentally
based require that there should be
no interference with the open shop.
While fair argument and persuasion
are permissible coercive methods
aimed at turning the open shop into
a closed union shop or closed non-un-
ion shop should not be tolerated. 4,6
employer should be required to deal
with men or groups Of men who are
not his employees or chosen by and
from among them.
The Right to Strike or Lockout
In the statement of the principle
that should govern as to the right to
strike or lockout, a sharp distinction
should be drawn between the en-
ployment relations in the field (a)
of the private industry. CD of the
public utility service and (c) of gov
eminent employment, federal. state
Of municipal. In private industry the
strike or the lockout is to be deplor-
ed; the right to strike or lockout
should not be denied as an ultimate
resort after all possible means of
adjustment have been exhausted
Both employers and employees should
recognize the seriousness Of such &C
ton and should be held to a high re-
sponsibility for the same The SYM
pathetic strike is indefensible. anti
social and immoral
The same may be said Of the black
list, the boycott and also of the SYM
pathetic lockout. In public ullnly
vervice the public interest and wei.
fare must be the paramount and con-
trolling consideration. The state
should. therefore, impose such regula.
lions as will insure continuous oper-
atlon' at the same time providing ad-
equate means for the prompt hearing
and adjustment Of compliments and
disputes. strike Of government en-
ployes is an attempt to prevent the
the operation of government until the
oer ands Of such employees are grant,
ed and cannot be tolerated. The right
or government employees to be heard
and tn secure In redress should be
amply safeguarded.
Training
Practical plans should be inausu-
rated in industry and outside of it
1or the training and upgrading Of in
dustrial workers, their proper place.
1nent in industry, the adoption and
aoaptation Of apprenticeship sys-
TENS, the extension OF vocational
education and such other adjust
ments Of our educational system to
the needs Of industry as will prepare
the workers for more effective and
profitable service to society and to
himself.
In explanation of the employers at
ttnde, Magnus w. Alexander man.
aging director Of the National Indus
trial Conference Board in a state
ment tonight said:
The statement Of principles which
should govern the employment rela-
ton in industry presented to the
conference body today was originally
prepared by the delegates appointed
by the National Industrial Confer
ence Board and assented to after dis
cussion by the employers group in
GLIDING the delegates Of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, the
farmer associations the investment
bankers and the railroad executives.
This document, will become his.
tortc because 1t is the first concert ed
declaration by Industrial leaders of
those fundamental principles under
the operation Of which alone Ameri-
can industry must live and move and
have its being II 1t is to achieve its
highest destiny. 1t Is a reasonable
statement of economic laws phrased
in language sympathetic and hu-
name.
THE employers group was gratifIed
at the many expressions Of approval
from representatives OF the public in
various walks Of life which followed
the presenting Of the statement to
the cOnferencen