Evening star., 1922-12-12
DAVIS URGES LABOR
SCHEME IN REPORT
Secretary Suggests Exten.
sion of Cancellation Service
to Prevent Strikes.
WOULD EDUCATE ALIENS
Recommends All Immigrants in
America Register With
Government.
WOULD EDUCATE ALIENS

Six recommendations, comprising
! labor program and revision of the
immigration and child labor laws.
were made in the annual report of
,, Secretary of Labor Davis. made pub
lie today The report reviews the
| labor history Of the year. points out
| the industrial lessons OF the coal and
| rail strikes and makes the following
recommendations:
Extension and expansion ,of the
| conciliation service of tho Labor De-
partment to provide it with facilities
to permit it to deal with nationwide
industrial disturbances.
Strengthening of the United States
employment service to enable 1t to
meet the problem OF unemployment.
Would Educate Aliens.
Provision for the education abroad
OF all aliens seeking admission to
the United states for rigid physical.
| mental. moral and blood tests.
Enrolment by tho government Of
United States and provision for edu-
| cation in Americanism of such as are
eligible for naturalization.
a federal constitutional amendment
to prohibit the employment OF chill
dren and federal juvenile court
system.
Discussing the Industrial conflicts
OF the year and means for preventing
similar clashes in the future. the Sec
retary's report said: I'VE must find
way to avert those futile. fatal APP
peaiS to force in industry, with their
vast losses to the worker. the en-
ployer and to the public. which is to-
day so vitality dependent upon in.
dustry in it's daily life. We must and
viii hnd way to settle these dis
Justice before the appeal to force is
made. Instead OF conference after
morths of industrial bate, would
have council before the strike Is
called.
Urges More Cancellation.
1T has been the experience of the
Department of Labor that dfsinter-
ested, intelligent, practical concilia-
tion Is capable OF ending many Of
these disputes. In the less than ten
years that the department has been
IN existence, the conciliation service
hampered by limitations in personnel
and equipment. has accomplished
much in these disputes.
1T Seems to me that before enact
ing ans radical legislation or chang
ing the administrative scheme for
dealing with these strikes. we might
well consider the perfecting and ex-
tension Of the machinery which has
proved SO effective in the past.
have no doubt that by improving and
increasing the facilities of the con-
ciliation service We can materially
increase its effectiveness in dealing
with the 10 per cent Of industrial
disputes In which 1t apparently fails.
Touches on Employment.
RegardinE unemployment. the re-
meet to prevent a recurrence of the
employment depression which threw
out OF work between FIVE and six mil
lion men, and to reduce the number
OF workmen who are daily without
means OF livelihood. The United
port said. is powerful agency in
meeting both of these problems
The causes Of idleness among our
workmen, call for instant remedy.
offer opportunities to the enemy Of
government too favorable for US to
overlook them. Wherever worker
and employer clash and wherever
men are in enforced idleness there is
the opportunity for the unscrupulous
mercenary plug.ugly: There. too, the
ultra-red radical finds conditions ripe
for his efforts Both threaten the
subversion Of all government. as they
and by stirring the passions and hate
Of men bring to fruition their gospel
of violence and bloodshed. These
things are menace to our whole
national existence. They threaten
the fundamentals of our government.
No duty is more pressing upon US to-
day than that OF safeguarding our
selves from these Dangers
Explains immigration.
The report explained the Secre-
tary's immigration and naturalization
proposals briefly as follows:
ut seems clear to me that tho place
to determine whether an alien Is fit
for America-whether he is mentally.
physically. morally and by blood
capable of exercising tho rights and