Arizona republican., 1919-12-02
TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1919
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
 Emerson.
What Labor Wants

Labor and capital have generally come to an agreement to the righteousness of collective bar gaining but they have to obstacle in their differences definition. This presents itself in the reply of Vice President woI of the American Fed eration Of Labor a series of questions propounded by Chairman Hays of the Republican National Com mittee to the desires of labor.
 Mir. Woll demands among many other things, that the right of labor to collective bargaining through representatives of their choosing shall be recognized. That something that had not received close attention had been brought into discussion until recently. In their dispute the general principle of collective bargaining the dis putants had not arrived at it.
 We believe the question first came up prominently in the senate investigation of weeks ago when lective bargaining with the employees of the corpora ton through representatives of the employees but not through agents not in the employ of the company
 It is a difficult point to get We easily why labor is insistent upon the right be rep resented by officials of national organization of steel workers or some organization embracing much larger number of steel workers than employed by one concern If the employees confined to rep resentation chosen from among themselves, body of employees would be isolated from every other or ganzation of the same craft and so to that extent would be deprived of the advantages of strong or ganization. If allowed representation from any or sanitation Of the craft, though might be dis tric state national the craft would lose the ad- vantage of utilization federation with other crafts Such confinement would loosen the bond which binds the crafts together into such body the American Federation of Labor.
 On the other hand the experience of employers with outside representatives of their employees has
  stand against collective bargaining through outsiders There have been though, instances where officials organizations and of crafts other than those of the em poyes acting nominally only as representatives but really mediators, have been helpful to both em- ploye and employer and have brought about under standings that would not have been otherwise ob- ainable. But they have approached the employer in a spirit of hostility and so have not incurred his hostility.
 Employers, that is, liberal employers regard bar gaining with their employees a friendly give and take arrangement with persons who have certain interest in the enterprise. It is approach to par tcipation in management. But they not willing 10 surrender part, even the smallest part of the management to outside organization They are sus- picous of the latter, believing that it's interest lies in it's ability prove the employees of the whole organization to the members of the whole fedora ton, that it for them something that would not ask for themselves. and if asking, they could get.
 Mir. Wolrs views participation in management control interesting gratifying contrary the theorists who have been talking without under standing program, of democratization of in dustry. He does not ask that for labor. He wants only for labor to have voice in those things which concern it-wsges and working conditions. Satisfied
 
 poyers run their business within their own judg- ment.