Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-03

TO these fundamental purposes in the
league of nations The statesme
gathered at Versailles recognized the
fact that world stability could not be
had by reverting to Industrial stand
ards and conditions against which
the average workman or the world
lad revolted. Ii is therefore the task
OF the statesmen of this new day o
change and to readjustment to world
conditions, and TO seek to bring about.
! thrdugh legislation, conditions that
will mean the ending of age-long an
| tagonisms between capital and labor
and that will hopefully lead to the
| building up of a comradeship which
will result not only in greater con
! tentment among the mass of work.
men, but also bring about a greater
| prediction and a greater prosperity
| to business itself,
Labor's just Demands.
"To analyze the particulars In the
demands of labor is to admit the
justice of their complaint in many
matters that lie at their basis. The
workman demands an adequate wage
! sufficient to permit him to live in
1 comfort, unhampered by the fear OF
| poverty and want in his old age. He
! demands the right to live and the
right to work amidst sanitary sur
| roundings, both in home and in work
! shop, surroundings that develop and
| do not retard his own health and well
being; and the right to provide for
his children's wants in the matter OF
| health and education. In other
words it is his desire to make the
conditions of his life and the lives OF
those dear to him tolerable and easy
to bear.
THE establishment of the principles
| regarding labor laid down in the cove
nant of the league of nations offers US
the way to industrial peace and concilia-
ton. No other road lies open to us.
| Not to pursue this one is longer to in
vite enmities bitterness, and antag-
onism which in the end only lead to
| Industrial and social disaster. The I'M
| willing workman is not a profitable
! servant. An employee whose industrial
| life is hedged about by hard and I'M
just conditions, which he did not Gre
| ate and over which he has no control,
lacks that fine spirit of enthusiasm
and volunteer effort which are the
necessary ingredients of great pro-
! ducing entity. Let us be frank about
| this solemn matter. The evidences Of
worldwide unrest which manifest
| themselves in violence throughout the
world bid us pause and consider the
means to be found to stop the spread
of this contagious thing before it saps
| the very vitality of the nation itself.
| DO we gain strength by Withholding
the remedy? Is ii not the business of
| statesmen to treat these manifesto
tons Of unrest which meet US on every
| hand as evidences of an economic dis
order and to apply constructive RENE
| dies wherever necessary, being sure
that in the application of the remedy
we touch not the vital tissues of our
| industrial and economic life? There
can be no recession of the tide of I'M
rest until constructive Instrumental
| ties are set up to stem that tide.
Right TO collectively Bargain.
! Governments must recognize the
| right of men to collectively bargain
4 for humane objects that have at their
base the usual protection and welfare
of those engaged in all industries. La
Dor must not longer be treated as a
commodity. 1t must be regarded as
the activity of human beings pos
sessed of deep yearnings and desires.
The business man gives his best
thought to the repair and replenish-
ment of his machinery, SO that its use
/ fulness will not be impaired and its
| power to produce may always be at its
height and kept in full vigor and mo-
ton. No less regard ought to be paid
to the human machine, which after all
propels the machinery of the world
and is the great dynamic force that
lies back of all industry and progress.
Return to the old standards of wage
and industry in employment are UNI
thinkable. The horrible tragedy OF
war which has just ended and which
has brought the world to the verge
OF chaos and disaster would be in vain
If there should ehsue return to the
conditions of the past. Europe itself
whence has come the unrest which
now holds the world at bay, is an ex'
ample of standpatism in these vita
human matters which America will
accept as an example, not to be fol
lowed but studiously to be avoided
, Europe made labor the differential
and the price of it all is enmity ant
! antagonism and Frustrated industry
The right to labor to live in peace anC
, comfort must be recognized by gov
, ernments and America should be tn,
: first to lay the foundations upoI
which industrial peace shall be built.
Rights of Capital.
: Labor not only is entitled to a!
adequate wage, but capital should re
!. ceive reasonable return upon it
a investment and is entitled to protec
ton at the hands of the government
Y in every emergency. No government
!. worthy of the name can play" thes
, elements against each other, for Their
n is mutuality of interest betwee
\ them which the eoveNnment mus
= seek to express and TO safeguard q
: all costs.
"The rights Of individuals to strik
Is inviolate and ought not to be inter
q fered with by any process of govern
y ment, but there ia a predominant
right. and that is the right of tn
!, government to protect all OF it's pee
a pie and to assert its power and ma
n jesty against the challenge of an
). class The government, when It az
+ serts that right. seeks not to antal
!. onige class but simply to defend tn
. right of the whole people as again:
4 the irreparable harm and injury tbs
# might be done by the attempt by an
class to usurp a power that only gov
, eminent itself has a right to exereiE
as protection to ALL
I'm the matter of international dill
putes which have led to war; state,
men have sought to set up as rem
edy arbitration for war. Does tn
mt mint the NAV for the gptftem OF