New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-03
Labor and Industry

The Democratic party is now, as
ever, the firm friend of honest labor
and the promoter of progressive in
dustry. It established the Department
of Labor at Washington and a Demo-
cratic President called to his official
council board the first practical work
lngman who ever held a Cabinet port
folio. Under this administration have
been established employment bureaus
to bring the man and the job together
Have been peaceably determined many
bitter disputes between capital and
labor. were passed the Child Labor
Act, the Workingman's Compensation
Act (the extension Of which we advo-
cate so as to include la borers engaged
in loading and unloading ships and in
Interstate commerce., the eight hour
law, the act for vocational training
and code Of other wholesome laws
affecting the liberties and lettering
the conditions of the laboring classes
l.. the Department Of Labor the Demo-
cr0tlc administration established a
womans' bureau which Republican
Congress destroyed by withholding an
preparations.
Labor is not a commodity; it is
human. Those who labor have rights
and the national security and safety
depend upon just recognition of
those rights and the conservation of
the strength of the workers and their
families in the interest of sound
hearted and sound headed men, women
and children. Laws regulating hours
of labor and of the conditions under
which labor is performed, when passed
in recognition of the conditions under
which life must be lived to attain the
highest development and happiness, are
just assertions of the national interest
in the welfare of the people.
At the same time, the nation depends
upon the products of labor; cessation
CT production means loss and, if long
continued, disaster. The whole people.
therefore, have a right to insist that
justice shall be done to those who
work, and in turn that those whose
labor creates the necessities upon
which the life of the nation depends
ton between the workers and the state.
They should participate in the formu-
latlon of sound laws and regulations
governing the conditions under which
labor is performed, recognize and obey
the laws SO formulated and seek their
amendment when necessary by the
processes ordinarily addressed to the
laws and regulations affecting the
other relations of life
Labor, as we'll as capital, is entitled
to adequate compensation. Each has
the indefensible right of organizations
of collective bargaining and of speak
ing through representatives of it's own
selection. Neither class, however.
should at any time, norin any circum-
stances, take action that will put in
jeopardy the public welfare. Resort
to strikes and lock-outs which en-
danger the health or lives of the
people is an unsatisfactory device for
determining disputes, and the Demo
cratic party pledges itself to contrive.
if possible, and put into effective oper
alton fair and comprehensive method
of composing differences of this ma
ture.
In private industrial disputes. we
are opposed to compulsory arbitration
as method plausible in theory, but
failure in fact. With respect to gov
eminent service, we hold distinctly
that the rights of the people are