Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-04

tive, of the federal bureau of labo"
statistics.
"To make a sensation out of this
announcement" Mr.. Frayne declared,
lis to confess ignorance concerning
it's true meaning. 1t says that at
a specified time $4,000 workers were
idle in the nation through strikes.
THAT may seem like a large num-
Der, but it is a small proportion. Our
population is 100,000,0O0 and we
should be encouraged. rather than
alarmed, when we find that only 95,-
900 out Of 100000 workers are on
strike, have stopped work through
other causes or are involved in in
dustrial disputes.
"Of the 100000 workers only
100000 are organized and the 3d.
900 mentioned form but $40 of 1
per cent of that population. In my
opinion this does not offer an excuse
for great alarm.
Striking Employers
"The prediction which follows
these statistics is that millions will
be on strike during the year 1920.
I do not believe that alarming state
ments of this kind should be made
by anybody in the absence of that
positive or direct evidence which
surely does not at the present time
exist.
Let us review the field. The
miners are now in conference with
of a few weeks will reach an agree
ment which will remove the posi-
bility of a serious strike in the min
ing industry. The workers in the
building trades of the country have
come to an understanding with the
employers; SO have the printing
trades, the needle trades and many
others.
These are not bad signs but good
ones. 1t is my belief that if there
are any serious strikes in the imme-
date future they will be caused by
the unwillingness of employers, to
come to reasonable amicable under
standings with their employees.
Strikes originating thus will be of
that sort which I have said are not
of labor but of employers. That is
an idea which | wish I might get
firmly fixed in the public mind.
Radioa1ism of Employers
THE employer who is unwilling to
deal fairly with his men in order to
erly be held responsible for that
which comes to trouble him and the
community. If the employers refrain
from radicalism in the conduct of
their affairs in the next year it will
be marked by fewer serious strikes
S"44S ~ ~ ~ SAho y WI 1Ae"S VIVA 49,
long time.
The American Federation of La
Dor is the greatest body Of organized
workers in the country and today it
stands a little more than ready to
do it's share toward seeing that in
dustrial peace shall be maintained. 1t
asks only for the basis of justice
and equity to all concerned.
"a constructive force is growing
and. coming forward with constructive
remedies for the old evils in the
ranks of organized labor in this coun-
try: No movement having for it's
object the uplift of society as a
whole is without the earnest SYM
pathy of the American Federation,
which cheerfully will give it's time
and money to the task Of its ad-
vancement
Labor Ready for Service
March -. 1917, before the nation
had gone into war, all the national
officers of the American Federation
of Labor, headed by President Com
pers, met at Washington and passed
a resolution notifying the president
and congress that if it came to pass
that the United States should be call
ed into war, the American Federation
of Labor stood ready to render any
service in the mills. the mines. the
factories of the nation which would