The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-05
WALSH IN FIGHT
Foted Labor Champion Before
Kansas Legislature.
Unions Also Bring Industrial
Experts to Topeka.

Frank P. Walsh, nationally reputed
as an attorney, labor champion and
chairman OF the national committee
on industrial relations, as well as
joint-chairman of the war labor board,
will represent Kansas union labor in
its Objections to the Industrial court
bill" before the legislature, Glen Will
lett, chairman of the state labor legis-
lative committee. announced today.
Wi1lett issued the following state
ment:
AFTER getting in touch with the
representatives of labor over the state,
the joint labor legislative committee
Frank p Walsh to represent the
workers of Kansas in presenting their
objections to the inustrial court bill
before the joint judiciary committee
of. the legislature.
Mr.. Walsh arrived in Topeka to-
day. He was chairman of the United
States com mission on industrial rela-
tions which conducted a nationwide
investigation into labor conditions,
which had the benefit and advice of
the leading economists of the great
universities of America and Europe in
rest. prevent strikes and keep produc-
ton at the maximum. Mr.. Walsh.
with ex-President Taft, lately retired
as joint chairman of the national war
labor board. This board adjusted dis
putes, during its life, involving more
than three million workers. The re-
suit of this work was that our coun-
try was the only one. at war, whose
essential war production was not de-
layed one single day on account OF
strikes or lockouts. Phis national
war labor board affirmed the right OF
free coIlevtive bargaining and recog-
nized that the right to strike on the
|, part of labor was necessary to the
existence of mankind.
Secure Industrial Experts.
1.-The joint labor legislative COM
phone also for the presence before the
, judiciary committee of a few of the
great industrial experts of the United
States: this branch of the. struggle
against the proposed law will be in
charge of W. Jett Lauck Mr. Lauck
is at present chairman of the board OF
control Of the bureau of applied eco
nomicS in Washington. D. G. He has
conducted for the United States gov
ernment many of its most exhaustive
tions of the nation. and as head of the
bureau of applied economics. has
made like studies for the largest in
dustrial corporations of the United
States, as well as for the banking and
! labor interests. We feel that Mr.
Lauck is man whose intelligence and
/ i'm pa rtiality cannot be questioned.
| TT is our desire to render every
] possible assistance to the members OF
| legislature in arriving at the under
| lying truths of the industr'Hi situation
and the effect that such a law as this
would have upon the lives and home:
| of our people.
| From communication with our ma
tional headquarters, we are convinced
| that organized labor in every state II
the union is intensely interested in tbs
outcome of our struggle. I know I dC
not exa ggerate when / say that tbs
ewes of the nation will be upon an
sas during this special session. w.
are confident that ansas will remain
true TO her finest traditions of hurhaT
freedom. and that this proposed lay
will be defeated"