Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-12
TABOR REVIEWS
last YEAR'sW'0RK
qksat Progress Made Despite
\ s'Unusual Strfs." Fedora
ton 10 Told
ANNUAL CONVENTION BEGINS

81 0rGAnized labOr's Accomplishment III
-. ro.r ~ ,r,.u., strifc and unusual
,.,-.... ',oia hsf,r,
Muusua uep.." ,,,nuan,ior n,
sne torty. .seeoru annua' 49, ,nday
!ne american reuera.,oh " ;'aco' 80 ,',,
IN the report ot the reoera''on eA''"
tive council. -.
The report declared InaI Amt a na n.a',
la0or during the year hot vns sun ,L,,
nom the widespread unemp,osnen. .ns'
e4isted, put was pese' ns opPone' :,
40fe actlve anu deterniueo 'n"u e'...
In a0ut'oh 10 s'rrtures "" VI. WI H. J..
auct OF employers IN numerous .ases. 80. ,ue
rerort added explicit anu poln.su ST. S,a,.
cism OF congress aho VI SIM s,ch
iesisietVe ooaies. go.
prancnes OF the uoVernnon, men,, ~ ram,,
cumoing TO wave OF reuGtioh' amna a",,
was found with tne ac'lon vi so..'
courts. including ths supreme ,nuai ou,'
and with what was descrloeu as I,rs,
dent Hardine's proposal to regulate
trade unions
w.. n, Achievement
49,, i.
1T is with no lt..e sstns,hv',um .n n,r. =.
view OF these c,rcumstences' ,he ,.Po..
XII. convsntion A report of achievement,
a report Of solidarity. a report Of con :.
structivs planning. The audacity of
those who have made 1t their business
to attack in every possible manner the
voluntary orRa nizations OF the workers
ms had no parallel in our country.
What our movement has been compelled
to meet has been n condition in which
the nredotory powers have sought to
hresk down nil resistance in every quar-
ter and to enrich themselves at the ex
nense of the whole people. No expert
ence has testified so eiouuentIy to the
fundo mental snundness of our organ!za- :
ttnn. ond 10 tho manner in which they
.s,.,,a tba worknrs Wa shall fight with n
.r.otor oort;dencn bec,uss of ths record
thes hos hosn made
...l .bo;r aareemant viii rho I'nited
SVn, WarLars af An,or;ca tbs rano-t
la ...on,raI,;ns the ,nino workcrs IA
csa.. norl packino house emnloycr.
80. I,Inu;s. auiitv NJ yiolatinn or
ssrs.ran,s Ths contest going on
smona am,,overs and the printing
frsde nnion inyolyes n contemptuous
d;sregerd and aayrant violation of nm
srr.sment nv cmnloyers and their MS.
scciotions
supreme Court Criticizeu
Turning next to courts. the executive
council protested most eWpndtlcallS
AGAINST such unjust and inhumane de-
cisions' as that Of the Supreme Court
voiding the act intended to abolish child
labor in the United States. Congress
by this decision must keep its hands
o6 when the health and life and we'll
bG1ng Of the Nations children are con-
cefned. The Supreme Court Of today
10 far more lesalistic and less humane
State legislative bodies also were
taken to task in some cases, chiefly IN
the matter OF compulsory arbitration
laws. The Kansas Industrial Court
was described as IAN utter failure"
sald to be equally as absurd and, fully
al dangerous.
I. President Harding was accused OF
having contemplated "a system of in
dustrial laws similar 10 those which
prevail in Kansas when in his mes
sage to Congress last December he
declared that Tin the case of labor
organizations we might we'll apply SIM
liar and equally we'll defined principles
Of regulation and supervision tas be
had just previously recommended for
eorporations) in order TO conserve the
public's interests as affected by their
operations.
.'It Ia hardly believed possible that
the President implied that the present
Administration intends to further II
policy which will deny America = work.
ers the right to cease work collectively
and to determine for themselves the
conditions under which they will give
service. Yet the language used leaves
little room for a different conclusion.
v.u D..,s,.,s I,,s.,,.,.c,orv
The decisions OF thc itaiiroaa l.apor
Board have gwen satisfaction heithrr
20 the workers nor the management
They have tended toward mere gen
eral demoraiization OF morale o. me
cnanical forces anu tne nupJeTt VI .om
pensauon lor services nhs oec1n;r 1
constant source OF iit'gaIio' una 'rr''
tauon. ,,... ,.ho. ..,o..
returning 10 uire", ihooi n"'',rs, IT,
organized ,aoor ,toreu ,'ntois ,I'e
report sald. aeaihsr orsnh'Zea "an
pcSgns tor 'hs es'aoi's"N'eH' VI 'H' 'o
ceMeG open nhop' xr..s,.
Chamoefs %, 'on..'e;.e a.a;n ,o.anIa s"o" %
INC couu'I!, WIN ,haot,. '.nm " ,o ~,
ceptIons, nav ienn ., ;s oo,,nI o
dlsruptive pIopasuhus ,i.'
Inere Is ont ohs answti 10 h W. a;,n rn,,ne
caMpAlsn OF eihpioseIss ,t ~, - ,no ',si"p
tion sna aestruc'ioh oI mv ,aDV. "rvi,e mT,
ment' anu Una, so''a"Iet nd ,ho f;nh"at
uon, eternai yisnah',s anu '"e "'s"es'
deTee o5 u soiiuar,,k, ,r Man, p.uu
Inc Admih's.r",non p Ok D;,a n;; mom, ntiy
ooVerhor Oh Ior.o m.e "as ~,
dorseo ih rsport snpni,etu I ~ ,ne
convsntion py san,iako isies"s' pres
dent OF tne free rearrnuon OF orh
ers OF r9rto h1cc. ne sala prghhtHea
labor IN fSrto hico naa oeeh Gealt MItn