Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-05
PALMER SEES AN
URGENT NEED Of
A PLAN To HALT
LABOR DISPUTES
Attorney General Says We
Need Machinery to Adjust
Differences Before They
Get to Point of a Strike.
SHOULD KEEP PUBLIC
INFORMED, HE SAYS
The People, Aware of Fact,
Will Always Secure JUS
tiCe to Both Sides in In
duStriaI Differences,

Washington, March A. - In his
first speech since formally an
nouncing his candidacy for the
democratic nomination for presi-
dent, Attorney General Palmer told
the national press club tonight that
the urgent need of the hour to sta
bilize industrial conditions was ma
chinery to adjust difference before
they got to the point of strike.
Mr.. Palmer declared there need
be no compulsory arbitration or re-
striction of the right to strike II
provision were made for the public
to be informed of disputes affecting
them.
public opinion is the only mon
archy in this country" he said,
"and informed public opinion will
always secure justice to both sides
In Industrial controversies.
can the government sought to do
in the coal strike situation for in
stance, was TO insist that both sides
should be heard before an impair
tial tribunal without the country
being made to suffer from the
strong methods adopted by each
side to accomplish its purpose in
the controversy. While the govern
ment may properly exercise its
right to protect the vast body of
the American people from the suf-
feriug, loss and death which would
ensure from the general tie-up in
the production or transportation of
the neCessaries of life, it ought
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that right Suitable machinery
should promptly be built to adjust
such controversies before they
reach the state which compels the
to take action in the
defense of itself or the people
whom it is designed to serve.
"By slow, but decisive processes
the arrogance of capital in this
country has been broken. But now
we see In many lines labor grown
so strong, so powerful, that it some
times threatens to becOrne arro-
CANT, and during the last year cap
ital has had to plead upon its knees
to labor for a chance to be heard
and the right to have its difficulties
with labor arbitrated, / think the
shame of it all is that in all these
years Of progress along all lines in
America we have not yet reached
the point where neither capital nor
abor can or dare become auto
cratic, or deny each other a hear
ing.
1T is a shame that labor was
ever forced to the necessity of taxi
ing the strong stand which 1t has
been compelled to take for its own
Labor conditions in
the United States are better than in
any other nation of the earth and
It Is due to labor that this Is true.
It has been the unremitting de-
mand of organized labor for higher
wages and better living conditions
hat has brought the working man
TO his high estate in America.
"And now that both capital and
abor understand each other, recog- |
nize each others power and grant
each others right to be and to be
heard, which, after all is exactly |
what the government tried to i'm |
press upon both sides in the coal |
strike, the thing to do in the pub
lie interest is built the machinery |
which will make it possible for both |
sides to have their claims presented |
o the public"
After brief reference to the |
reaty deadlock Mr.. Palmer said !
peace was not more |
important than peace within the |
country, which could be obtained |
,nly by impartial enforcement of
deals on which the republic was
'Ounded.