Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-24
UNI0NISTS OUTLINE
PLAN FOR WHICH THEY
FIGHT; ASK SUPPORT
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consuming power, raise the stan
dards and improve the conditions
Of life and work"
Rap Industrial Court.
Every reduction of wages is a
reduction in the consuming power
of the wage earners," ii was stated,
and a direct blow at>the prosperity
and wellbeing of the country"
Through establishment of indus
trial courts. the employers were
charged with seeking to inject into
American Industrial life a device
through which they may annul
constitutional guarantees and de-
prive workers of freedom and of
the right to function through their
organizations.
These instruments" it was add
cd, Serve to create in industry a
disharmony which inevitably must
result in a chaotic industrial con-
dition and consequent loss of pro-
duction.
1T should be the purpose of the
government properly to stimulate
our industrial processes" continued
the document. at should be the
purpose of government to make
voluntary negotiations more easily
entered into. If. on the other
hand, all of the safeguards set up
in our constitutional legal structure
for the protection of the workers
are to be destroyed by judicial con-
struCtion as the vitality of the Clay
IAtN
labor demands the immediate re-
peal of all that body of laws known
as differentiation and conspiracy
laws" ....
Asks Public support.
The conference also asked for
public support and recognition of;
The right of the working people
to organize into trade unions for
the protection of their rights and
interests.
The right to and practice OF coll
lective bargaining by trade unions
through representatives of their
own choosing. ...
The right to work and to cease
work collectively.
The declaration. in conclusion,
urged enactment of federal leSisla-
ton which shall protect the work
ers in their organized capacity
against the concept that there is a
property right in the labor of a
human being.
A proposal that there be includ-
ed in the declaration a demand on
congress Tor the repeal of the Vol
stead act was declared to be out of
place in such a document. This
matter was then referred to the
executive council which will make
a report tomorrow.
"Opcn shop Movement.
The open shop" movement was
declared to be a campaign for a
shop that shall be closed to union
workmen and primarily a cam
paign designed to destroy trade
unions and to break down and
eliminate the whole principle OF
collective bargaining. Alleged
INSCRIPTIONS financial speculation
and profiteering was vigorously de-
nounced in the declaration, which
said that the inscriptions pira-
teers of finance, having squeezed
the consumer throughout the war,
are now broadening their field and
enriching themselves by squeezing
both the producer and consumer
at is astounding, but true the
declaration continued, that even
after so great a lapse of time since
the ending of hostilities there is,
so far as the average family is
concerned. practically no reduction
in the high cost of living. 1t is adj
mitted that in some commodities
there has been no appreciable re-
duction in the retail price.
1--WE declare again that the gov
eminent has been and continues
impotent in the face Of criminal
operation of profiteers and must
therefore accept the responsibility
for great portion of the indigna-
ton and resentment Of the people
against those who have filched
their pockets for no reason except
that they have had the power to
do So"
The state of unemployment was
declared to be due to the "malad-
Iministration of industry and prin-
cipally and prima lily because Of
| the studied and calculated arbi-
trary policies of reactionary en-
ployers."
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