The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-12-01
THE ATTITUDE OF
ORGANIZED LABOR
Vice President American Fed
Grafton Wants Collective
Bargaining and Roads
REMAIN WITH COMMENT

Washington, Dec. 1.-Organized la
bor's attitude toward many questions
pending and likely to come before
Congress was outlined yesterday by
Matthew Woll, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, re-
plying to a series of questions sub
mitted to labor leaders by Chairman
Hays, of the Republican committee.
To make the fruits of labor more
effectively usable for the welfare of
the country, capital and labor, Woll
declared, must be placed on an equal
footing by making all corporation
might not deny employees the right
to organize, bargain collectively with
representatives of their own choosing
or to determine for themselves the
conditions and relations of their SER
vice. Without this check on corpor-
ate powers, he said, 1.-The domestic
| conflict now raging cannot and will
not be permanently ended
Discussing plans to settle or mini
mize industrial unrest, Mr. Woll de-
| clared arbitrary exercise of unwar-
ranted and unconstitutional author
ity by DIN courts" could nQt allay it,
adding that, 'to avoid building up a
| judicial aristocracy" the word of the
| supreme court, state or Federal,
should not be final on the constitu-
| tionality of an act. He proposed re-
! enactment of the measure.
| Government by injunction4should
be prohibited, the rights and liber-
ties and freedom should be fully safe
guarded for all time to come," he
said. Congress should speedily ap
i prove the covenant of the league OF
nations, including the labor provis-
/ ions contained in this remarkable
i document, which holds the hope fol
the future peace of. the world in its
;, keeping, instead of f1libustering anC
fiddling away like Nero while Rome
was af1ame.''
u Measures to prohibit child labor
total immigration exclusions for tw,
) years, a government employees mini
eral employment service, elimination
: of convict labor competition, soldier
r land legislation state loans to hom
, builders and repeal of all taves o.
l necessities were advocated.
: Discussing accident and unemploy
s ment insurance, Mr.. Woll declare
r the true solution was to strike at un
employment itself by tsystemati
: elimination of many of the season
OIL able industrial undertakings TIL
t United Mine Workers, he said, in ask
4 ing for five-day week, we're in rea
t ity asking for a greater period c
S work rather than a greater period {
d idleness. Universal observance c
to adjust conditions of unemplo!
ment in many industries. If thes
matters were adequately dealt witt
he added, workers could lay by sa'
ings to care for their families in tin
of stress or idleness.
Il Answering if labor desired to pa
I ticipate in the control and manag
ment of industry, and share in profi
and losses" Mr.. WoH said proft-sha
e ing as thus far produced was "a sha
and a fraud" and ''cloak for exec
profits The suggestion as to sharil
profits and losses borders on the a
Dl surd," said Woll, who added:
eff the workers are to share in Il
Of losses, then let us establish shop so
* lets and let the worker also mana
ct and operate the entire industries.
il American labor demands only
is voice and control in such industri
ed matters and management as affe
1g their interests as workers and whi
lie are determined largely by their &C
he tracts of employment"