The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-11
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marketing food; the encouragement
/, of our export trade, and the encour-
asement Of the production and I'M
/ portstion of fertilizng material and
| of its extensive use. :,
| The federal farm loan act should
he SO administered as to facilitate
the ACQUISITION of farm land by those
desiring to become owners and pro
iprdetors and thus minimize the evils
| of farm tenantry.
Industrial Relations.
There are two different concep-
| lions Of the relations of capital and
labor. The one is contractual, and
lemphasizes the diversity Of interests
! of employer and employee. The other
is that o-partnership is common
task.
We recognize the justice of collec-
tive bargaining as means OF pro-
noting good will, establishing closer
and more harmonious relations be
tween employers and employees, and
realizing the true ends OF Industrial
! Justice.
The strike or lockout as a means
! of settling industrial disputes, inflicts
/ such loss and suffering on the COM
munity as to justify government init
alive to reduce its frequency and linn
it its consequences.
| We deny the right to strike against
F., the government: but the rights and
Interests of all government employees
must be safeguarded by impartial
! laws and tribunals.
Public Utilities. ..
+, In public utilities we favor the es-
tablishment of an impartial tribunal
to make an investigation of the facts
and to render decision to the end
that there may be no organized inter
ruption of service necessary to the
lives and health and welfare of the
people The decisions of the tribunal
should be morally, but not legally
binding and an Informed public senti-
ment be relied on to secure their &C
|ceptance The tribunals, however,
should refuse to accept jurisdiction
! except for the purpose of investiga-
ton as long as the public service be
interrupted. For public utilities we
favor the type Of tribunal provided
for in the transportation act OF 1870.
| In private industries we do not adj
vocate the principle of compulsory ar
,Dltrdt1OQ, OUT we ldFOl luipd1 1al So1ii'
missions and better facilities for vol
untary mediation Cancellation and ar
bitration, supplemented by that full
publicity which will enlist the infiu-
ence of an aroused public opinion.
The government should take the in
itiative in inviting the establishment
of tribunals or commissions for the
purpose of voluntary arbitration, and
of investigation of disputed issues.
We demand the exclusion from in
terstate commerce of the products OF
convict labor.
National Economy.
A republican congress reduced the
estimate submitted by the admins
tration for fiscal year 1920, almost
three billion dollars, and for the fiscal
year 1921 over a billion and quar-.
ter dollars Greater economies could
Ihave been effected had it not been for
the stubborn refusal of the admins
tration to cooperate with congress in
an economy program The universal
demand for an executive budget is a
recognition Of the inconvertible fact
that leadership and sincere assistance
on the part of the executive depart
!ments are essential to effective econ.
omy and constructive retrenchment
The Overman act invested the pres1