Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-28
COMMITTEE WILL
INVESTIGATE PAY
IN BRITISH ISLES
James Henry Thomas Intro
duCeS Statement Workers.
Have Made Up Their Minds
to Get More Money,


London, Feb. 27.-The industrial
conference called by the government,
today adopted resolution moved by
Arthur Henderson, the labor leader,
that joint committee consider the
question of hours and wages of work
ing men and women and general con-
ditions of employment.
An amendment, offered by Premier
Lloyd George, that the committee in
vestigate causes of unrest and report
to the conference not later than April
5, also was adopted
The object of hole.ng the parlia-
ment was to give the government an
opportunity to meet representatives of
British industry and learn their views
on the general labor situation
The delegates to the parliament
number 500 1t is estimated that more
than 100000 workers are repre-
scented.
James Henry Thomas, member of
parliament and general secretary of
the National Union of Railway men,
said he was deputed to make the fol-
lowing observation for the triple alli-
ance of miners, railway men and
transport workers:
The organized workers of Great Bri-
tain have made up their minds to OBJ
tain for themselves an increasing
share of wealth which their labor has
produced and produces. The workers
of the threshold organization are de-
termined to shorten materially the
hours of labor in their respective in
dustries. They are dissatisfied with
l,a ycfa of yyh
their labor power as n mere com
modify to be bought, sold and used
as though they were machine-like
units in the process of wealth pro-
duction and distribution, and they
! therefore demand that they shall be-
| come real partners in industry, jointly
! ditions and management.
Labor has become increasingly
alive to it's sovereign power and will
shirk no responsibilities and will be
| denied none of its rights and priv.
leges.
1.-The miners, railway men and
transport workers stand unalterably
for the ownership by the states of the
mines and railways and means of in
land and coastal transport
most of the prevailing unrest "the
scandalous profiteerng countenanced
by the government during the period
of the war Is responsible.
THE excess profits duty" the state
ment continues, has not mitigated
the effect of profiteering the slight
! est degree. It's only use being to
make the profiteers agents of the
troo nd IN hur pf
paying for the war from the shoulders
of the rich to the general body of the
community"
Realizing these facts and the in
ference from them" the workers have
resolutely set their faces toward some
order of society which will improve
their lives and conditions in accord
with the new valuation they have set
upon themselves. No longer are they
prepared to content themselves with
every wage advance being thrust
upon the consumer and consequent
cancelling every improvement instant
ly and automatically. Rent, interest
and profits are not inviolate.
"In every country we see the work
ers seeking changes. We in this coun-
try may be able to see these changes
brought about peacefully and orderly.
The present discomfort is not the work
of agitators. 1t is the product of long
experience accelerated by the develop
ments of the war. We, therefore, ask
the government to use its influence in
the direction indicated. The organ
lied working people want redress for
their manifold grievances and, more
over, they want something like imme-
date redress"