The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-29
Declares That Indus trial Warfare Shall Cease and Give Way to Arbitration if Our Gov Tn m e nt Is to , Last.

Last.
 That we reached point in the in dustrial history of our country where the government fails to cope with those elements on which it's life de- pends. v
 That political management of the producing forces within the United States has not kept pace with the ad- vance of science and invention.
 Industrial War Must End.
 That industrial warfare must cease and give way to arbitration if our present form of government is to con tinue.
 That the monkey wrench of the strike and the crowbar of investiga- tion must no longer be thrown into the machinery of national production.
 That the people must not look to Congress or the legislatures for rules of procedure, since the magnitude of our national structure IS beyond the ken of an individual
 These in brief outline the views en- tertained by James Hardness, gov ernor of Vermont recently interview ed by a newspaper man on the sub ject of the industrial pandemonium, the hit and miss combination of cap ital and labor with no fly wheel for balance, that has been driven home to the public through the medium of the coal and railroad strikes.
 The man sought for an opinion on the situation at large was Hartness, republican governor of Vermont, who came into international prominence years ago through his invention of the flat turret lathe, the automatic die. the screw thread comparator and nearly hundred Sother patented de- signs for the advancement of indus try. He is fellow of the Royal As tronomical Society, the American As sociation for the. Advancement of Science and the Royal Society for the Encoura ragement of Arts, and past president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Enough other honors accorded him might well fill this page The point is, however, that he IS progressive American who knows the art of manufacturing from the ground up, industry from the viewpoint of an active participant, and government from the eyes of an executive whose path has been>cross- ways to that of a business-like po1iti- cal boss. An appeal to the people on a platform squaring rather than lodging the issue elected him to the governors chair.
 Lives in Small Town.
 This spectator and actor of the twentieth century was in the observ- atory at his home in Springfield, Yer mont, a small town in the heart of the Green Mountains where the blare of the factory whistle presents an almost startling contrast to the farm ing country for which the state IS known. Here, in his observatory, the governor IS accustomed to scan the skies through an equatorial telescope of his own invention, by which as tronomers the world over have been enabled to study the heavens in we'll located quarters. The telescope re- sembles gun mounted on revolv- ing turret.
 Come this way" said the governor, and leads the interviewer to a series of underground chambers where he is accustomed to wrestle with prob 1ems of state and science without the possibility of interference. Here he may have prepared his inaugural ad- dress in the silence of man-made caverns, like Demosthenes orating by the sea.
 From a governmental viewpoint what is the significance of the indus trial disturbances threatening this country at the present timer" he was asked Governor Hartness grew thoughtful, folded his hands and ap- peared to gaze far over the head of his questioner
 Must Not Look to Congress.
 "If our government is to continue, , he said we must realize that we must not look to Congress or our legislatures for rules of procedure This may be disturbing to some of our ultra-cons people, but a full statement of the case will show that the safety of our government and the welfare of our workers de bends on the popular mind grasping must not be disturbed in their func- tioning. This is not for the protec- tion of capital; it IS not an anti-labor attitude; it is for the maintenance oi conditions whereby labor, capital and other resources are to be employed sc as to produce the greatest value.
 Strikes Needed in Places.
 "We are quarreling over the divi- sion of the products of our country We have strikes, and strikes are nee essary in certain branches of our in dustrial life in order that labor may be given it's share, but these indus trial wars interfere with production not merely for the suspension ofswork for a number of months, but in 2 greater handicap of breaking the spirit of the group. Last but not least comes the reduction of what may be called the group skill The group skill is that welding of brains and labor that attains high efficiency as a result of the special ability oi each individual in the group working