Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-12-10
WILSON MAKES
LABOR REPORT
Explains Situation Confronting
Country at Present
b. The Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-There can
be no permanent industrial peace
that is not based on industrial justice.
Secretary Wilson declared today in his
annual report. Reviewing the present
disturbed industrial situation, the Sec
Rotary said the means had been found
for regulating all the other relations
of mankind and that human intelli-
gence could find the method Of adjust
ing the relationship between employer
and employe with justice to both.
Declaring that just as international
wrongs might reach a point making
war-sa necessity SO industrial wrongs
might accumulate until they provoke
an industrial conflict. the Secretary
said the stability of industrial rela-
tons rested on mutual counsel.
"Jnst as the peace of nations is
promoted by frank and friendly inter-
course he said, 80 may the peace of
industry be maintained by the same
methods. -"But his intercourse can
not come about unless there is first
recognized the right of collective bar
gaining. The-public interest demands
that 1t be universally recognized, for
~the-primaEy interest of the public Is
in peace.
'"The denial Of organization is a de-
NAL of the only Means of ~peaceable
settlement that the wage n
have"
Calling attention % the present pro-
mfnence of labor organizations of a
revolutionary or lawless type the Sec
rotary declared that the responsibility
for them must fall upon the employ
or who oppose the organization or
lawful trade unions. More and more
do Industrial disputes menace the
public as well as employer and m
ploye, the secretary said, adding that
the right to strike should be q means
of defense n not a weapon of af-
Tense.
The right of any man to cease
working for any reason that Is suffic-
lent t. himself Is the basic element OF
human liberty" he said. THE right of
any person to refuse to operate his
plant al any time he desires to do SO Is
the exercise Of a property right guar
anteed by the Constitution. 1t does not
follow that because these rights exist it
Is necessary to exercise them. They
must nevertheless be safeguarded."
Turning to the question of the high
cost Of living, the secretary said in
creased wages did not always bring
the desired relief. Increased produc- I
tlvity, making more materials avail
able for wages and taking the means
of increased compensation out of the
profits of the employer was the only
way in which the standard of living Of
the wage Garner could be improved,
he declared.
Reviewing the activities of the var
ious bureaus of the department, the
report said 254,273 aliens came to
American shores during the fiscal year
ending June 80. and that 245.647 of
them were admitted and S.622 exclud-
ed. The number admitted the year
before was 211 1853. Aliens departing
during the asst fiscal ear numbered
216,231 as against 1913. 268 the year be-
fore. During the last 7 years the Blu
reau OF immigration estimated that
s6 aliens left the country for every
100 admitted.
Aliens admitted during the past
year were in possession of sums of
money aggregating $15,S31,247 an
average of $112 per person.
Aliens expelled under departmental
process during the year numbered