Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-24
SEES GAINS
Continued from Pace One)

tionship may be secured and main
tanned in the industrial establish
ment.
Third. collective bargaining. as 4
policy or principle, cannot be safely
used in the broad sense from which the
public has been accustomed to express
1t, but must be defined clearly as to its
applicability to the varying conditions
of industry and the varying relations
that exist between the wage Garner AMI
the employer
Fundamental to the whole question
OF collective bargaining is the respon-
sIhility of those who bargain, and this
IS directed quite as much at the en-
pioyer as at the wage Garner or the or
ganzation of which the wage Garner
Is a member. Only where their is a
definite dual responsibility lived I'd :,
as scrupulously as is required in other
contractual relations can collective bar.
gaining in any form or under any in
depreciation be successful.
Then 1t must be remembered tina,
the industrial life of the country, in il !
employment relations. divides definitely
along certain lines. No one will denv
the right of the individual wage Garner
and his employer to negotiate terms of
employment for industrial relations &C.
ceptable to both. but aside from th.
there is the dealing between the en-
ployer and his employees by means OF
the shop industrial council, dealing
through a trade or labor union. dealins
through trade union. and all Of these
methods are acknowledged and prac.
ticed by employers.
1T may be charged that the employ.
ers' group. in defeating the Gompers
resolution. denied the right of organize
ton and OF collective bargaining. Blu,
the conference learned definitely that
the right Of organization and collective
bargaining Is interpreted by the labor
group in one way and one way only
organizing and bargaining through
trade and labor unions 1t would be
unfair to make any procurement on
these two important principles which,
would convey as the belief Of this con-
ference such an Interpretation.
The purpose of the resolution.
through cunning phrases coined to car
~ double meaning. was to commit the
conference to support the only brand
OF collective bargaining ever offered By
the group presenting it, and the en-
ployers were bound to resist to the enc.
"The employers group could not den ,
the right that it so freely and fully
conceded in its own substitute resolu-
ton which the conference defeated ami
IT stands today. with the adjournment
Of the conference, upon the record of Il,
substitute and its Interpretation conf
dent that the sober judgment of the
American people will come to under
stand that the position taken was in the
defence Of the open shop. an American
institution that shall not be undermine
and destroyed by any organized com
bfnaticn seeking to threaten its life.
Our social and industrial fabric is not
FIR danger. Employer and wage earne-
will live and work together, but the
conference has demonstrated that tn,
right of the employer to deny repre-
sentation unworthiiy sought shall no;
be abridged; nor shall the right of the
wage Garner collectively to place before
his own employer his needs and his as
pirations and his interest in the estab-
iishment be abridged.
I'VE are leaving upon the record ,:
the conscience this declaration Of true
American principles. and upon this dec
laration the employers group and the
employ ers Of this nation will stand in
fair dealing with the wage Garner
through the critical days Of readjus.
ment just ahead"