The Holly chieftain., 1919-12-04

served the whole country by leading
the way in developing the means of
preserving and safeguarding lives and
health in dangerous industries
Ii must now help in the difficult
task of finding a method that Will
bring about genuine demOcratiRa
tioo of industry, based upon the full
recognition OF the right of those who
work, in whatever rank, to participate
in some organic way in every decision
which directly affects their welfare.
1t Is with this purpose in mind that
] called a conference to meet in Wash
ihgton on Dee. l, to consider these
problems in all their broad aspects,
with the idea Of bringing about bet
ter understanding between these two
interests.
Indorsss WsrlA League.
The great unrest throughout the
world, out of which has emerged 4 de-
mand for an immediate consideration
of the difficulties between capital and
labor, bids Us put our own house in
order. Frankly, there can be no per-
manent and lasting settlements be-
tween capital and labor which do not
recognize the fundamental concepts
for which labor has been struggling
through the years. The whole world
gave its recognition and Endorsement
to those fundamental purposes in the
League of Nations.
The statesmen gathered at Yer
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stability could not be had by reverting
to Industrial standards and conditions
against which the average workman
of the world had revolted. 1t 10, there
fore, the task of the statesmen Of this
new day of change and readjustment
to recognize world conditions and to
seek to bring about through legisla-
tion conditions that will mean the end
ing of age-long antagonisms between
capital and labor and that will hope
fully lead to the building up Of a com
radeship which will result not only in
greater contentment among the mass
of wOrkmen but SO bring about u
greater production and a greater pros.
perity to business itself
Workman's Right to Live DecentIy.
To analyze the particulars in the
demands of labor is to admit the jus
tice OF their complaint in many mat
ters that lie at their basis. The work
man demands an adequate wage, suf-
| ficient to permit him to live in com
| fort, unhampsred by the fear of poy
erty 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,
ii 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 COW
enant of the League of Nations offers
us the way TO industrial peace and
cOnciliatiOn. No other road lies open
TO U.s. Not to pursue this one is longer
to invite enmities, bitterness and an
tdkOIllSiHS WHICH III Tic emu OILY lSAu
to industrial and social disaster.
Unwilling Workman Improbable.
The unwilling workman is not IL
profitable servant An emplOye whose
industrial life is hedged about by hard
and unjust conditions: which he did
not create and over which he has no
control, lacks that fine spirit of en-
thuSiasm and volunteer effort which
are the necessary ingredients of a
great producing 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
10 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 it not the business of statesmen TO
treat these manifestations of unrest
which meet us on every hand as evi
denceS of an increasing disorder and
10 apply constructive methods where
ever necessary, being sure that in the
application of the remedy we touch
not the vital issues of our industrial
and economic life? There can be no
recession of the tide of unrest until
constructive instrumentalities are set
up TO stem that tide.
Labor Not Commodity.
Governments must recognize the