The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-11

employer and employees and realizing
the true end Of Industrial peace.
The strike, or lockout as means
Of settling Industrial disputes in.
flicts such loss and suffering on the
community as to justify government
initiative to reduce its frequency
and limit it's consequences
We deny the right to strike against
tho government but the rights and
interests OF all government employees
must be safeguarded by impartial
laws and tribunity.
In public utilities, We favor the
establishment Of an impartial tri-
bunal to make an investigation of
the facts and TO render decision
to the end that there may be no
organized interruption Of service to
the lives and health and welfare Of
the people. The decisions OF the
tribunals to be morally, but not legal
ly binding and an informed public
sentiment be relied to secure their
acceptance. The tribunal, however,
should refuse to accept jurisdiction
except for the purpose of invcstiga-
ticn. as long as the public service
be interrupted.
For public utilities we favor the
type Of tribunal provided for in the
transportation act OF 1920.
In private industries we do not
advocate the principle OF compulsory
arbitration, but we favor impartial
commission and better facilities for
voluntary mediation, Cancellation and
arbitration. supplemented by that full
publicity which will enlist the influ'
ence of an aroused public opinion.
The government should take the ini-
tiative in inviting the establishment
of tribunals Of commissions for the
purpose Of voluntary arbitration and
investigation Of this issue.
We demand the exclusion from in
terstatc commerce OF the products OF
convict labor.
National Economy
A republican congress reduced the
estimate submitted by the administra-
ton for the fiscal year. 1920 almost
three billion dollars and for the fiscal
year, 1921, over billion and quarter
dollars. Greater economies could nave
been effected had 1t not been for the
stubborn refusal OF the administra'
ton to cooperate with congress In
an economy program. The universal
demand for a legislative budget is a
recognition Of the incontroyertible fact
that leadership and sincere assistance
on the part of the Legislative depar,-
ments are essential to effective econ
omy and constructive retrenchments.
The Overman act invested the presi-
dent of the United States with the
authority and power necessary to re-
store the federal government to
normal peace-tlme basis and to re.
The dominant fact is that Is months
after the armistice the United States
government is still on a wartime basis
and the present program Of the exc
cutive reflects wartime extravaganza
rather than rigid peace-time economy.
AS an example of the failure to re-
trench which has characterized the
post war policy Of the administration
we cite the fact that, not including the
war and navy departments the exc
cutive departments and other estab-
lishmehts at Washington actually re.
cord an increase subsequent to the
armistice Of 2,1S4 employees. The
net decrease in payroll costs contained
in the 1921 demands submitted by the
administration is only one percent un-
der that of 1920. The annual ex-
pense Of federal operation can be
reduced hundreds of millions Of dol
lars without impairing the efficiency
Of the public service.
We pledge ourselves TO carefully
planned readjustment to a peace-time
basis and to a policy of rigid eco
nomy, TO the better coordination of
departmental activities, to the elimi
nation Of unnecessary officials and
employees and to the raising of the
standard OF individual efficiency.
The Executive Budget
We congratulate the republican con-
gress on the enactment Of a law pro-
viding for the establishment OF an
executive budget as a necessary in.
strument for sound and business
like administration of the national e.
nances and we condemn the veto OF
the president which defeated this great
financial reform.
Reorganization OF Federal Depar
and Bureaus
We advocate a thorough I -,
ton of the present organization co.. the
federal departments and bureaus, with
view to securing consolidation,
more business-like distribution OF func-
tions, the elimination of duplication,
delays and overlapping of work and