The weekly Alaska citizen., 1920-01-05
WILSON ISSUES
 ANNUAL REPORT
 OF DEPARTMENT


 There can be no permanent indus trial peace that is not based on in dustrial justice. Secretary Wilson de elared today in his annual report. Reviewing the present disturbed in dustrial situation, the secretary said tlat means had been found tor regu- lating all the other relations of man kind and that human intelligence could find the method of adjusting the relationship between employer and employe with justice to both.
 Declaring that just as international wrongs might reach a point making war a necessity, so industrial wrongs might accumulate until they provoke an industrial conflict. the secretary said the stability of industrial re- lations rested on mutual counsel
 Just as the peace oi nations is promoted by frank and friendly in tercourse," he said, so may the peace of industry be maintained by the same methods. But this inter course can not come about unless there is first recognized the right of collective bargaining The public interest demands that it be uniyers- ally recognized, for the primary in- terest of the public is Il peace,
 The denial of organization is d denial of the only means of peace able settlement that the wage earn CTS have"
 Calling attention to the present prominence ol labor organizations oG d revolutionary or lawless type the secretary declared that the respon#- lbility Tor them must fall upon the employer who opposes the organiza- ton of lawful trade unions. More and more do industrial disputes men ace the public as well as employer and employe, the secretary said, add ing that the right 10 strike should be means of defense and not d weapon of offense,
 fht denial of organization is working for another for any reason that is sufficient to himself is the basic element ot human liberty he said The right of any person to refuse to operate his plant at any time he desires to do so is the eXer- else ol d property right guaranteed by the Constitution. 1t does not fol low that because these rights exist il Is necessary to exercise them. They must nevertheless be saleguarded." " Turning to the question of the high cost of living, the secretary said increased wages did not always bring the desired relief. Increased produc- tivity, making more material avail able for wages and taking the means of increased comprehension out ol the profits ot the employer was the only way in which the standard oI living of the wage earner could be iIuproN ed he declared.
 Reviewing the activities ol the vari- ous bureaus ot the department, the report said 254,273 aliens came to American shores during the fiscal year ending June 80, and that 245,- 647 of them were admitted and S,626 excluded. The number admitted the year before was 2l1,S5 Aliens de parting during the last fiscal year numbered 216,231 as against 193,26S the year before. During the last years the bureau of immigration es- timated that 36 aliens left the coun- try for every loo admitted.
 Aliens admitted during the past year were ill possession of sums ol money aggregating $l5,93l ,24I an average of SIP per person.
 Aliens expelled under departmental process during the year numbered 3,06S compared with l,569 in 1918 The total number of aliens deported including those refused admission and 34 Chinese deported under the exclusion laws, was 11,72S as against S,916 in 1918.
 The number of admissions to citi- zenship during the past year was larger than any preceding year amounting to PIT ,358," the report said Leaving out of consideration the year 1918 this was far greater mum Der than was admitted in any two years during federal supervision Military statistics show 128,335 alien: who acquired citizenship after they assumed the uniform of the United States"
 The United States employmen service at the end of the war hat $50 offices with personnel of l,7O' and an administrative force at Wash ington of 800 During the clever war months of 1918 the service plac ed 2,698,SS7 persons in employmen out of a registration of 3,675,S5S.
 Persons directly affected by labo disputes prot to the attention of th' department during the year number