New Britain herald., 1921-06-13
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G sailed from every side. The movement | for reduction of wages, the movement | to crush our organization, masuuer- | ading under the fictitious open shop | slogan, the wage of unemployment, | and perhaps the most sinister of all, | the revival as a part of the general | anti-labor campaign of the vicious, | enslaving individual contract by which workers are bound to their employers in unwilling servitude, have been massed and concentrated against the | most potential voluntary movement of the wage-earners of the country Add ed to these have been legislative as- saults and court decisions most de- structive in character.
 We have checked the progress of those who have sought to destroy | freedom through the annihilation of the organizations of labor.
 We call for a great rallying. a 1 great unity, a great movement for ward for humanity. The message of trade unionism must be carried to every corner.'
 Constructive Demands. Under the heading of Constructive Demands the councils report reiter- ates and reaffirms that those contrib uting to production should have a part in it's control" and to this end 1t urges the setting up of conference boards of organized workers and em- ployers. thoroughly voluntary in char acter and in thorough accord with our trade union organizations as means of promoting the democracy of industry through cooperative effort"
 "Co-operation should be encour- aged as an effective means of curb ing profiteering." the report contin- ues. ITO stimulate rapid develop ment of co-operatives the Federal Farm Loan act should be extended so as to give credit to all properly or ganized co-operatives. just as credit now is given to individual farmers. Cooperation is no less vital and worthy of support than are the rail- roads which were given hundreds of millions of dollars and an area of land equal to New England to facili- tate their establishment, There should be legal enactment to protect cooper atives against discrimination by man ufacturers and wholesalers.
 Control of Capital.
 Control of credit capital by those whose chief interest is the accumula- ton of profits results inevitably in the open door for profiteering. We repeat and emphasize the demands of organized labor that control of capital be tken from the hands of private financiers and placed in the hands of a public agency to be ad- ministered by voluntary and CO., operative methods"
 Turning to the railroad situation. the council says "The operation of the Esch-Cummins measure (the Transportation Act) has created situation by virtue of which even it's promoters and advocates now free ly acknowledge that absolute failure and collapse predicted by labor in the very beginning.
 The report says that the decisions of the railroad labor board in wage cases have betokened no progressive thought and it characterizes as "a deliberate backward step" the abro- gation by the board of the national wage agreements.
 Labor Board Useless.
 "The railroad labor board" the report continues. "has made volun- tary agreement relic of history. The maximum demands are pre- sented in preliminary meetings. with the board as a court of appeal all ways in the background. Thus. questions of wages. working condi- tions and hours, become matters for litigation instead of negotiation. Neither party is satisfied as is abun- dantly evident. Only a minor frac- ton of the cases presented has been decided. The breakdown is com plete.'
 The report goes on to say that it Is necessary to look to the future for the development of a sound con- structive program under which the nation may be assured of competent. fair and economical operation and control of the railroads with labor's right to exercise it's normal activities and freedom safeguarded."
 Regarding wages and the cost of living. the council says the practice of fixing wa ges solely on the basis of cost of living is q violation of the whole philosophy in progress and civilization and. furthermore, is a violation of sound economic theory and utterly without logic or scientific support"
 The practice. it is added. results in a tendency to classify human beings and to standardize classes, each class having q presumptive