Evening star., 1919-12-10
PEACE
| BASIS DISCUSSED
Secretary Wilson, in Annual
Report, Reviews Present
Disturbed Labor Situation.

Industrial justice is the basis on
which Industrial peace must come and
| there can be no Industrial peace un-
til such justice is brought about.
| Secretary of Labor Wilson declare ed
| today in his annual report. Review
ing the present disturbed Industrial
situation, the Secretary said the
means had been found for regulating
all the other relations of mankind
and that human Intelligence coulo
find the method of adjusting the re-
| lationship between employer and en-
| ploye with justice to both.
| The stability of industrial relations
rest on mutual consent just as inter.
national wrongs might reach pom
| making war necessity and lnouStr iai
| wrongs might accumulate until they
provoke an Industrial conflict, the SEC
| retary asserted.
| How Peace May BE Promoted.
"Just as the peace of nations is pro-
NOTED by frank and friendly inter-
course" he said. 80 may the peace
of industry be maintained by the same
| methods. But this intercourse can
| not come about unless there is nrst
recognized the right of collective bar
gaining. The public interest demands
| that it be universally recognized. 1or
| the primary interest of the pubic Is
! in peace.
"The denial Of organization is de-
NAL of the only means OF peacea PIE
settlement that the wage earners
| have"
| prominence of labor organizations OF
a revolutionary or 1awless type, the
Secretary declared that the respon-
sibility for them must fall on the
employer who opposes the organiza
ton of lawful trade unions. More anc
more do industrial disputes menace
the public as well as employer ant
employe, the Secretary SAID, aoolhs
| that the right to strike should be
| means of defense and not a weapon OF
offense.
"The right of any man to cease
working for another for any reasoI
that is sufficient to himself IS tht
basic element of human liberty, ne
| said. 'The right of any person TO re.
fuse to operate his plant at any time
he desires to do SO is the exercise ol
a property right guaranteed py tnt
! Constitution. 1t does not follow ina
because these rights exist 1t is nee,
essary to exercise them: Iney Illus
nevertheless be safeguarded
| Concerning the question OF the nisL
cost of living, the Secretary said tha'
| increased wages do not always prlns
relief Increased productivity, mar
ing more material available for wage
and taking the means of Increase
compensation out of the profits of the
! employer, was the only means ps
which the standard of living of the
ware-earner could be improved, ne
declared.
Number of Aliens Deported.
| The total number of aliens deported
| including thirty-four Chinese, oe-
ported under the exclusion laws M Mas
| 11.72S as against S,916 in 1918. The
report said that 254,273 aliens came to
American shores during the fiscal year
ending June 80. and that 245.64I Were
admitted and S.626 excluded. The
number admitted the year before was
fiscal year numbered z16,231. as
against 193.26s the year before. Dur,
ing the last seven years the bureau OF
immigration estimated that th1rty-sIa
aliens left the country for every iO'
admitted. Aliens admitted during tht
past year were in possession OF sums
Of money aggregating $15,S3l.247' al
average of $112 per pesron.
THE number of admissions to clti
zenship during the past year wa
larger than in any preceding year
amounting to 217,35S." the repor
said Leaving out of consideration
the year 1918. this was far create
number than was admitted IN any tw'
lyears during federal supervision
Military statistics show 12S.335 a1ien
who acquired citizenship after the!
assumed the uniform of the Unite'
States"
Employment Service Figures.
The United States employment serv
lice at the end of the war had IS
offices with personnel of 1.1OO an
an administrative force at Washing
ton of 800. During the eleven wa
months of 1918 the service placed 2.
l69SSS7 persons in employment out o
a registration of 3.675,S5S.
Persons directly affected by labo
disputes brought to the attention o
the department during the year mum
bered 1,011,96S. while the number in
directly affected was !, ,396,072. During
the year the department assignee
commissioners of conciliation to LIS
cases, including 5S7 strikes, lib dis
putes and threatened strikes. 63 lock
outs and II walkouts. OF these 1.22
were adjusted, exclusive of 219 refer
red to the National War Labor Board
The commissioners failed to make set
Elements in Ill cases.
Strong recommendations for the re
| viving and continuing of the working
conditions service, which was insti
tuted during the war to investigat
working conditions and to recon-
mend standards for their improve
ment, were made by the Secretary.
He also urged legislation for tn
! continuation of the United State
training service. "It is believed" h
said, that increased skill on the par
of workers, and its consequent st1mu
lus toward greater production, is ever
more important in peace than in war"
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