The Connecticut labor news., 1921-01-21

1 see''; and he further stated that he be. lieved that the present trend oi | thought i'll America l, toward something along the German plan united witt something along the Kansas Industria Court plan." The banker above re- ferred to is likewise impressed with this German program as being an effective method to deal with the industrial situation. He explains that:
 Tn Germany the shop committees are required by the laws of the national government; the shop committees in the various manufacturing plants involved i'll the production of any g iven com modity are themselves represented by delegates of their own choice in a na- tional council representing that indus try; and the councils of all these in duStrles are represented III federal body ln cooperation with the German reichstag (its congress) in the admin istration of the affairs of the New Ger man republic"
 This proposition will be discussed at the Civic Federation's meeting. In con however, 1t should be borne in mind mon between the United States and any other country in the world.
 Collective bargaining will form an important part of the conference, or to frame the question In another way How can the conceded benefits of col lective bargaining be preserved and its possible dangers be guarded against ?' Will the proposals of the Lockwood committee for publicity and state super vision meet the exigency or will law for supervision carry Us into the fixing of prices which in turn may bring greater troubles-and in any event, shall we have to go on and amend or repeal the Sherman Antitrust Act be- fore anything in the way of solution can be devised?
 The enemies of organized labor have a ready answer for these queries in the slogan Smash the Unions!" The friends of organized labor retort with great force that although the function ing of democracy in our large cities, which have the most schools and churches, results in such scandalous ments. no one Is crying out to smash municipal governments but rather that they should be reformed. Other sub jeCts are:
 How far is the "Open Shop" or
 [NlnCl lNdll lotll NdlllpdlSll, Ho" DNIlS waged in many parts of the country, merely another name for strictly anti union drive?
 What are the comparative merits of the methods for dealing with strikes and lockouts, represented by the Hoover plan, the Allen plan, the New Jersey plan and the voluntary plan?
 While the controversies between the employers and the trade unions over wages, hours and working conditions become bitter at times, they are still predicated, i'll this country, upon the em- ployers' owning the plants and paying wages, and all good Americans, employ CTS and workers alike, ought to devote their energies toward reducing to a minimum those conflicts by working out fair and sane methods for dealing with them.
 The program for the federation's an- nual meeting will include, in addition to topics indicated by the problems pre- sented in the foregoing, reports from its Workmen's Compensation Depart fnent Social Insurance Department, and especially the new Department on Study of Revolutionary Movements. During the past year through Is sub-commit- tees the last named department made an extensive study of the extent to which the revolutionary forces in this coun- try have penetrated the various groups