The New York herald., 1922-07-28
GOV. MILLER WANTS
CAPITAL GENEROUS
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was the trouble in the labor situation, he
answered very slowly and deliberately:
"The most serious Industrial disputes
wrong. On the one hand Is the short
sighted. narrow employer who is living
still in the past and on the other. the
extreme radical to whom a strike is but
an incident in his program of social
revolution.
I'VE have been seeking for years 10
find a solution of our Industrial problem
and satisfactory means OF composing
Industrial disputes. I doubt that the
solution will be found until employers
generally come to take a broader and
more liberal view and to realize that
self interest will be promoted in the
end by establishing Industrial rela ations
on the basis of mutual interest between
employer and employee. Necessarily the
| employer must make the advance in this
direction. The workers cannot be ex-
pected to do So"
"should be Contract Matter"
"why can't the State take the lead %
pelllng the settlement of Industrial dis
putes is very serious question. Per-
sonally l have felt that the question
of wages and related questions Incl
dent to the relationship of employer and
employee must be matters of contract"
AT what point in the conflict do you
think the State shoould enter?"
1T unquestionably is the supreme
DUTY Of the State to maintain order and
to protect those who a-e willing to work.
end 1t Is coming to be a vital question
how far those employed in pursuits on
which the very life of the community de-
pends should be permitted by concerted
action to paralyze such pursuits. The
difficulty is that in these Industrial dis
putes there is no one to represent the
public, whose vital interests are not con-
sidered.
Certain pursuits. such as transporta-
lion, have long been regarded as of a
rLblic character. Those engaged in
them are in sense public servants. and
whoever undertakes to render public
service assumes the obligation at least
TO perform that service AS society be-
comes more complex and its necessities
increase the number of occupato
which assume a public character, neces-
sarily increase. A dispute involving
such an industry may go so far that
self-preservation may require the public,
through their government, to intervene. -
"Chief Problem seIfishness.,
'Is the solution of the trouble to be
found in regulating capital, restricting
labor unions or both?"
Capital and laocr are organized. and
through their disputes the unorSanized
public suffer. Necessarily the latter
have no one to represent them but their
government.
Both employers and labor unions have
much to learn. The former cannot de-
stroy the latter. The right to collective
bargaining is now generally admitted to
be essential to the protection of the en-
ployee. The individual workman cannot
deal single handed on terms of equality.
Our chief difficulty results from selfish
ness on the part OF both employers and
labor leaders. and too often, as has been
the Lockwood committee, both arc cor
rupt and unite to exploit both the work =
ers and the public.
'If employers would be broader and
more far sighted. and if the workers
would choose leaders who were inter-
ested solely IN promoting their welfare
most of the industrial disputes would
be avoid ed. OF course one source OF
trouble in the present situation is the
effort of the extreme radical group to
create and to use Industrial disputes, not
for the purpose of promoting the imme-
diate welfare of the workers but to create
unrest and to SOW seeds of revolution