The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-23
as well as within the purely Industrial

as well as within the purely Industrial 1,
field.
These suggestions" says the report, !
referring to the help which the con- !
ference received from both employers |
and employees. clearly proceed from a
genuine desire that the movement for
democratic representation as a substi-
tute for direct personal contact. may
spread in accordance with sound
principles and be kept from perversion
which would threaten the ideas last
ing usefulness by making it an agency
of attack rather than a means to
peace
I Idea Is Opposed.
The idea of "employe representa-
tion." the report says, has aroused OPP
position from two sources, viz: EN-
ployers who still adhere to the theory
that labor is commodity. view
which is said to be steadily disappear
ing, and trade union leaders, who re-
gard shop representation as subtle
weapon directed against the unions.
"Employe representation" the con-
ference says. "offers no royal road to
industrial peace. No employer should
suppose that merely by installing some
system of shop representation he can
be assured. without continued effort
of harmony and increased production.
Doubtless there will be failures where
the plan is adopted as a fad or pam
acea. 1t Is only means whereby sin,
certify Of purpose, frank dealing and
the establishment of common interests
may bring mutual advantage"
, Relative to collective bargaining
the conference "sees in a frank accept
ance Of this principle the most helpful
: approach to industrial peace" and
states that it believes that the grea
, body of the employers of the country
: accept that principle. The difference
of opinion, it says, appears in regard
to the method of representation. Bar
, gains of certain kinds between EN-
, ployers and employees do not lenC
themselves readily to legal enforce
ment and the conference therefore ex
, presses the belief that, for the presen
! at last, enforcement must rest sui
: stantially upon good faith
o Regarding hours of labor. the cor
J. ference states that experience ha
: demonstrated that they should be fix
:. ed in industrial establishments Eat
!. point consistent with the health of tn
+ employees and with proper opportunit
+ for rest and recreation, there being il
! all cases provision for one days res
: in seven"
= The conference further finds tina
+. from the standpoint of public interes
:. cit is fundamental that the basi
wages of all employees should be ado
quate to maintain the employee an
his family in reasonable comfort an
> with adequate opportunity for the edl
. cation of his children. When tn
= wages of any group fall below thi
e standard for any length Of time, tn
- situation becomes dangerous to til
.e well-being of the state
View Of Profit Sharing.
- AS for profit-sharing being regarde
- as a complete solution of industri
- problems, the conference says tn
. wsile it has promise in some dire
=. tions, it can not by itself, be conside
=, ed to be Of far-reaching effect Neve
- :, theless," the report says, "the field
Ii one in which sincere experiment mi
O. add a real knowledge of desirable pl
;, cedure."
20 Touching on the subject of child
if Dor, the conference says sheer prol
e bition Of child labor is, at best on
y. a negative attack upon the proble