The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-25

cases In which small groups have re-
sorted to practices which no one could
approve, but these instances are so
few as to be unworthy of considera-
ton.
1T is argued that there is a public
necessity which is paramount to the
right of the workers to cease work.
Much is made Of that alleged neees-
sity. No one will contend that an
avoidable stoppage of work is desir-
able, but America can never afford to
contend that the restoration of slave
labor, or involuntary servitude in any
form, is desirable. There Is no such
thing as a detached ana unfnterested
general public. Our where population
is divided as employers and employed.
There is none with normal faculties
who is not numbered either among
the employed or the employers. Every
one must be interested either in the
securing of justice or in the imposi-
ton agreed upon By both parties to
labor dispute is always a principle to
be supported. There IS nothing in
common between this and arbitrary
DEGREES by a government tribunal
EaVing power of compulsion which
carries with it enforced labor. The
fact is that the state tribunal puts an
end to Cancellation and makes both
employers and workers iitigants, each
contending for maximum, each
1tdEA1lH u dpRI04CIl LIE OllCE III a
spirit of Cancellation, each in constant
preparation for suit instead Of in
the development of mutual trust and
respect"
In the current number of 1.-THE Re-
tartan" is also an expression from w.
L. Higgins, presiding judge of the
Kansas court. and author Of the in
dustrial law.
Judge Higgins says: 81 am firm in
the faith that congress will soon en-
act a federal law of similar import to
the Kansas law creating a tribunal of
high judicial nature (ner an arbitra-
ton board) and giving it jurisdiction
over commerce and the production
of fuel, believe the commerce
clause of the constitution is broad
enough to cover both, FOR fuel under
modern conditions is as necessary to
the flow of commerce as is transport
tation. 1t should, as the Kansas act
does, protect labor from the agrees
sion OF employers by recognizing the
right Of collective bargaining and by
guaranteeing q fair wage and moral
and healthful surroundings 1t should
protect capital from sabotage in the
way of unfair rules ana regulations,
the strike, the boycott, and all other
forms of economic pressure and it
should protect the public by provid-
ing for the administration of indus
trial justice by the orderly tprocess of
the law and thus insure industrial
peace. To pirate of democracy and
loyalty to the constitution while we
deny the humblest American citizen
ample and permanent protection of
his right to labor at his chosen avoca-
ton whenever and wherever he
chooses is to indulge IN the most
shameless hypocrisy"
Mr.. GompeFs sees strife, distrust
and hostility as a result of the Kansas
industrial court law.
AS a matter of fact the Kansas in
dustrial court was created because
of "strife, distrust and hostility" 1t
was formed as a remedy for such
evils. 1t is the only body that func-
tions which is bumper between the
labor capital rows and the general
PUBLIC.
Labor does not like the industrial
court. And there is suspicion on the
part of capital, Therefore it is ap-
parent that the court was created and
is functioning for the, good of the
general public.