New-York tribune., 1919-12-10
Secretary Wilson in Annual
Report Upholds Right of
Collective Bargaining as
Demanding Recognition
Disputes Menace Public
Blame for Lawless Agitators
Put on Employers Who
Oppose Labor Unions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-There can
be no permanent industrial peace that
IS not based on industrial justice, Sec
retary Wilson declared to-day in his
annual report Reviewing the present
disturbed industrial situation, the Sec
retary said the means had been found
for regulating all the other relations
Of mankind and that human intelli-
gence could find the method of adjust
ing the relationship between employer
and employee with justice to both.
Declaring that just as international
wrongs might reach a point making war
necessity, SO industrisl wrongs might
accumulate until they provoke an in
dus.ral conflict. The Secretary said the
stability of industrial relations rested
on mutual counsel.
noted by frank and friendly inter
course he said. 80 may the peace of
industry be maintained by the same
methods But this intercourse cannot
come about unless there is first recog-
rzed the right of collective bargain
ng The public interest demands that
i be universally recognized. for the
primary interest of the public is in
peace
Warning to Employers
The denial of organization is a de-
rial of the only means of peaceable
settlement that the wage earners have"
Calling attention to the present
prominence OF labor organizations of a
revolutionary or lawless type the Sec
retary declared that the responsibility
for them must fall upon the employer
VINO opposes the organization of lawful
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trial disputes menace the public as we'll
as employer and employee, the Secre-
tary said. adding that the right to
strike should be q means of defense
and not weapon of offense
THE right of any man to cease work
ing for another for any reason that is
sufficient to himself is the basic ele-
mert of human liberty" he said "The
right of any person to refuse to operate
his plant at any time he desires to do
so is the exercise of property right
guaranteed by the Constitution. 1t does
not follow that because these rights
exst it is necessary to exercise them.
They must nevertheless be safe
guarded.
Turning to the question of the high
cost of living the Secretary said in
creased wages did not always bring the
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making more material available for
wages and taking the means of in
creased compensation out of the profits
Of the employer was the only way in
which the standard of living of the
wage Garner could be improved, he de-
clared.
254,273 From Abroad
Reviewing the activities of the vari-
Gus bureaus of the department. the re-
port said 254 ,273 aliens came to Ameri
can shores during the fiscal year ended
June 30. and that 245,647 of them were
admitted and S,626 excluded. The num-
Der admitted the year before was
2ilS53. Aliens departing during the
last fiscal year numbered 216, ,231, as
against 1913 1858 the year before. Dur
ing the last seven years the Bureau of
immigration estimated that 36 aliens
left the country for every 100 admitted
Aliens admitted during the last year
were in possession of sums of money
sggregating s1583l,2 PAT. an average of
Sll2 q person.
Aliens expelled under departmental
process during the year numbered 3,068.
compared with l 1,569 in 1918. The total
number of aliens deported. including
those refused admission and "a Chinese