The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
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Nominations-Capt w. A. Swift,
swiftown, Miss, chairman; M E, Hill.
Brighton, Tenn; 9. II. Lackey,, Noun
tain W View Ark w n BAILEY Mathis Mathis
W. M. McSwine. Scobey, Miss; S. NJ
MARKS, Marks, Miss; J. J. Stovall,
Skies, La; Thomas E. Davenport Sen
sth, Mo-; Charles Emens, Trinity, Ala;
B. Wolf, Beulah, Miss; NJ. H. Dand-
Earle, Ark; T. A, Glass, Minden, La;
M. A. Walker, Covington, Tenn; w.
II. King, Memphis.
Judge Makes Talk.
Outlining the new industrial rela-
tionship problem solution as has proven
;,1ctical and successful in Kansas,
Judge w. L. Higgins. Topeka, of the
court of industrial relations addressed
the convention WEDNESDAY morning. In
part he said:
at has devolved upon our generation
to find solution for some Of the big
gest problems of all time. The chal-
many millions of liberty loving men
from widely separated countries to the
battle fields Of Europe, there literally
to crown the road to death as to a
festival. BY such sacrifices OF blood
and treasure as were never before
witnessed, the tyranny of kings, en-
perors and military dictators was def
initely defeated.
I'VE are now in the midst of most
brutal and destructive industrial war,
fare. 1t is world wide. If prompt and
concerted action be not taken, the pres
ent struggle may yet prove disastrous
to liberty and democracy. and the fruits
Of our military victory may be turned
to ashes. , ,.
around the relations of employer and
employe, capital and labor the wage
payer and the wage Garner. Selfish,
cruel men are seeking to inflame class
against class, the poor against the
gent. Civilization is threatened with
such a disaster as always follows So
cialist or communist ascendency. Or
ganized religion and organized phil
anthropy deserve unstinted praise for
their efforts to substitute altruism for
avarice in the industrial relations.
III democracy Is to survive, we must
evolve a lawful solution of these con-
stantly recurring industrial disturbances
which so vitality affect the peace and
Public necessity is insistent. Democ-
racy's implacable foes-Bolshevism
communism, Socialism and anarchy.
feed and fatten upon the aftermath of
the bodies of the slain after the battles
of antiquity.
"The Kansas court of industrial rela-
tons is emphatically not a tribunal for
arbitration. 1t is, therefore. funda-
mentally different from the labor courts
of Australasia The Kansas law is
based upon the principle of adjudica-
ton, not arbitration. Neither of the
three members of the court have any
interest in the controversy, 1t is in
tended that they shall be as impartial
and, If you please, as ignorant as the
judges of the supreme court of the
state. The law provides for the adju-
dication of industrial controversies in
the same orderly way, by the same
kind Of tribunal. as has been used in
the adjudication of all other classes
of controversies for hundreds OF years.
1.-THE Kansas industrial code provides
for court of industrial relations con-
sisting Of three judges, to be appointed
provides that, in case of controversy
between employers and workers or be-
tween crafts or. groups of workers. en-
gagged in any of said industries, II the
controversy shall reach the point that it
endangers the continuity or service, the
supply Of the necessaries Of life, threat
ems the public peace, endangers the
public health, or affects the general
welfare OF the people, that the, court,
upon its own initiative, or upon the
application of either party to the dis
pute, or upon the petition of the at
torney- general or upon the complaint
OF ten citizen taxpayers OF the locality,
shall take jurisdiction, shall investi-
gate, determine and adjudicate such
differences make findings of fact and
issue an order in the premises. BY
such order the court may fix rules and
regulations concerning hours of labor
and working conditions. and establish a
minimum wage or standard Of wages,
all of which must be observed by both
parties unless changed by agreement OF
the parties and approval of the court
1t provides that il either party to the
controversy be dissatisfied the matter
may be taken directly to the supreme
court of the state for review and shall
be by the supreme court given prefer
ence over other civil cases in the mat
ter of an early hearing"
, Big Time Ahead.
Gaily spinning the roulette wheel try
ing fan-tan and everything that goes
along with real extravagant time
was to be the feature of the conven.
ton in its entertainment program or
Wednesday evening at the east entrance
OF Overton park. Here at O'Clock
the gates were opened, each man sup
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