Arizona republican., 1921-12-07


 construction, to encourage the spread of our population and restore the proper balance between city and country. The problem may we'll have your earnest attention.
 Tt has been perhaps the proudest claim of our American civilization that in dealing with human rela- tionships it has constantly moved toward such justice in distributing the product of human energy that it has improved continuously the eco- | nomical status of the mass of peo- l pie. Ours has been a highly pro- ductive social organization. On tn. way up from the elemental stages of society we have eliminated slavery and serfdom and are now far on the way to the elimination of poverty. Labor Problem
 Through the eradication of il- ! literacy. and the diffusion of educa- ! ton, mankind has reached a stage 1 where we may fairly say that in the United States equality of oppor- | tunity has been attained, though all are not prepared to embrace 1t. | There is. indeed, a too great diver gence between the economic condi- tions of the most and the least fa- vored classes in the community. But even that divergence has now come to the. point where we bracket the very poor and the very rich to- ! gether as the least fortunate classes | Our efforts may well be directed to | improving the status of both.
 While this Gat of problems is commonly apprehended under the | general phrase capital and labor 1t | is really justly broader. It is ques- | tion of social economic organization. | Labor has become a large contrib | e11 n rn efnHlr | of capital; while the people who own | the largest individual aggregates of | capital are themselves often hard and earnest laborers. Very often 1t I is extremely difficult to draw the | line of demarcation between the two groups; to determine whether par | ticular individual Is entitled to be l set down as 1aborer or as capitalist. 1 In a very. large proportion of cases l he is both, and when he is both, he is | the most useful citizen.
 industrial Tribunal
 ''The right of labor to organize Is just as fundamental and necessary | as is the right of capital to organize. 1 The right of labor to negotiate. to | deal with and solve its particular | problems. in an organized way, through its chosen agents. is just as essential as is the right of capital to
 
 limit the liabilities of stockholders Indeed, we have come to realize that the limited liability of the citizen as I a member of a labor organization closely parallels the limitation of lia- bility of the citizen as a stockholdeI in a corporation for profit. Along this line of reasoning we shall make the greatest progress toward solution of our problem of capital and labor
 If Hnrnnrarinr which enjoys the privilege of limited liability of stockholders. particularly when engaged in the public service it is recognized that the outside pub- lie has a large concern which mus be protected. and so we provide reg uiations, restrictions. and some cases detailed supervision Likewise in the case of labor organization we might well apply similar and equally well defined principles of regulation and supervision in order to conserve the public's interests as affected by theil operations.
 REGULATION OF UNIONS
 "Just as 1t is not desirable that g corporation shall be allowed to i'm pose undue exactions upon the pub- lie, so it is not desirable that labor organization shall be permitted te exact unfair terms of employment or subject the public to actual dis tresses in order to enforce its terms Finally just as we are earnestly seeking for procedures whereby tc adjust and settle political differences between nations without resort to war. so we may well look about for means to settle the differences be- tween organized capital and organ ized labor without resort to those forms of warfare which we recog- nize under the names of strikes lockouts. boycotts and the like.
 ENFORCED MEDIATION
 "As we have great bodies of law carefully Tegula ting the organiza- ton and operations of industrial and financial corporations. as we have treaties and compacts among ma tions which look to the settlement oi . differences without the necessity o1 conflict in arms. so we might well have plans of conference. of common counsel. of mediation, arbitration and judicial determination in controver- sIes between labor and capital. Tc accomplish this would involve the necessity to develop a thorough go ing code of practice in dealing with such affairs. It might well frankly to set forth the superior interest oi the community as whole to eithel the labor group or the capital group With rights, privileges, immuniues and modes of organizations thus carefully defined. it should be pos sible to set up judicial or quasi ju- diciaI tribunals for the consideration and determination of all disputes which menace the public welfare. 'In an industrial society such as ours, the strike, the lockout and the boycott are as much out of place and as disastrous in their results as is war or armed revolution in the do- main of politics. The same disposi- ton to reasonableness to concilia- ton, to recognition of the other sides point of view, the same provision oi fair and recognized tribunals and ! processes, ought to make it possible to solve the one set of questions as easy as the other. l believe solu- ton is possible.
 "The considera ton of such policy would necessitate the exercise oi care, of deliberation in the construc- tion of a code and a charter of ele- mental rights dealing with the rela- tions of employer and employe- This foundation in the law, dealing with the modern conditions Of social and economic life would hasten the building of the temple of peace ir industry which a rejoicing nation would acclaim.
 REWARD Ex-SERVlCE MEN After each war. until the last, the government has been enabled to give homes to its returned soldiers and a large part of our settlement and de- velopment has attended this gener- our provision of land for the nation | defenders.