Evening star., 1921-08-28
Proposes to Force Operation
of Corporations ''for
Common Good"
REGRETS DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST WAGE FARMERS
Council Advocates Wiping Laws
Preventing Collective Rights
Off Statute Books.
BY tie Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY. August 27.-In
order that corporate industries con-
Quoted under corporate grants shall
be operated for the common good
ana mot merely for the profit of a
class men, the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor
tonight announced that it proposes
TO investigate this entire subject, so
that the people of our land may be
fully and accurately appraised of the
real situation of affairs"
Rights, privileges and opportuni-
Ties equal to those granted the cor
porate interests are demanded by the
wage earners. said the council, de-
claring that an inquiry will also be
made with view of devising a COM
prehensive plan for the correction of
the grave dangers and great evils
that have fastened themselves like
ba-nacles upon our people"
Intends to Remove Screen.
organized labor" the statement
said intends not to suffer longer
under the persistent efforts being
| made to misrepresent their hopes.
aims and aspirations and to deny
| them equal rights and opportunities
with all other classes of citizens. It
! intends to rer,ove the smoke screen
, that has been raised to place into
security those interests whose profits
| are enlarged when the peoples
suffering is increased-whose rights
and powers are extended when the
/ liberties and rights of the people
are curtailed.'
I. Deploring the discrimination against
the workers in favor of orga nized in
dustrial corporate interests, the coun-
ell declared that lit will give atten-
tion to the revision of plans by which
the group rights of wage earners
may be fully recognized and ad-
equately safesuarded and SO that
corporate interests may no longer use
their organized power to deny a like
right of organization and collective
/ power to the wage earners.
Claims Laws Are Misused.
The council declared that the con-
spiracy and anti-combination laws
were being nisused against the work
ers in behalf of the corporate inter
ests and referred especially to the
Kansas industrial court law as "only
another attempt to deny the wage
earners the right of organization and
of collective decision to protect them
selves against the encroachments Of
corporate wealth."
"The council" 1t was added, PRO
poses that a careful review and analy-
sis be made Of all laws and legal doc
trines of this kind, and IL no ade-
uuate remedy can be devised to pre-
vent the grievances and abuses now
prevalent, then efforts be made that
all differentiation laws and con-
spiracy doctrines which have been re-
peatedly used to prevent the workers
exercising their collective rights and
privileges shall be wiped on our stat
ute books"
| Charges Rights Are Impaired.
| The council also declared that the
! judiciary departments of both federal
and state governments have serious
ly impaired the constitutional rights
of the workers" and characterized
some of their decisions. including
those of the United States Supreme
Court, as narrow. strained and class
biased interpretations"
| In behalf Of the wage earners the
council declared that 1t would not only
protest against all these judicial de-
ctsions, legislative tendencies and
practices of corporate interests. but
proposes to undertake the organizing
of local committees throughout the
land. and through them to familiarixe
the public with all that is going on
and progressively to review the atti-
tude and activities Of all groups and
Interests, as we'll as the legislative
Ienactments and judicial decisions
which are destructive of the workers
rights, privileges and opportunities"
Il The council announced its intention
to investigate the methods used by
the banking institutions and insurance
companies Of the country in the han
j ding of funds intrusted to their care
for investment and safekeeping Of the
wage earners.
Good Seen In Charters.
aIt intends that the savings OF the
workers" it was stated. shall no
longer be used to deprive them OF
> their constitutional and economical
rights and opportunities.
"The executive council does not
view the granting Of corporate char
ters for the advancement of our
! financial, commercial and industrial
interests as q governmental policy
THAT should be discouraged" added the
: statement. ITO the contrary. 1t Ia
Iour firm conviction that much good
has come to civilization BY the ap-
'proval of the cooperative principles
: fundamentally underlying the en-
( couragement of corporate enterprise.
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