Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-08-11
4 ADMINISTRATION MUST RESPOND
10 THIS, WHEN PRESENT BIG
STRIKES ARE ENDED.
VARIOUS PROGRAMS OFFERED
Plan of The Industrial Conference of
1920, Providing for National Board
and Local Regional Conferences
For Adjustment.
JAMES 2. HoRNAnAY


manent industrial peace. Following
tDe settlement Of the strikes that are
low giving the country so much con-
Germ, the Harding administration viii
nave to respond to this demand. Since
the signing OF the arInistice which
brought the World war to an end.
nearly 1900 strikes have taken place
IN the United States. Every one of
these affects the public adversely in
some degree. No wonder then that
the general public is demanding that
the best minds undertake to find d
way that leads to Industrial peace.
When the administration is ready
to take up the subject 1t will have at
hand some well thought out plans.
First of all the church people have,
since the end of the war, repeatedly
proposed that the golden rule receive
more consideration than employers
and employees have been inclined to
give it. Everybody who has given any
thought TO the present strike situation
is impressed with the fact that the
employers and the employees mine
and railroad-are seeking some par
| heular advantage. There seems to be
utter absence of the spirit which
would seek common ground 'Let us
do the other fellow If we can" seems
to be the governing spirit.
The national Industrial conference
which met here in March, 1920. sub
mitted definite program for indus
trial peace which up to this time has
been ignored, Undoubtedly the report
of that conference will receive care
full consideration when the subject is
taken up again.
Industrial Conferences Plan.
The guiding thought of the 1920
conference was that the right relation
ship between employer and employee
can be best promoted by the deliber-
ate organization of that relationship.
The system of settlement proposed by
the conference consists Of a plan, ma
4 tionwide in scope, with national in
dustrlaI board, local regional con-
ferences and boards of inquiry, to be
created as follows
1.-THE parties to the dispute may
voluntarily submit their differences
for settlement 20 a board, known as
regional adjustment conference. This
board consists Of four representatives
selected by the parties, and four
others in their Industry chosen by
them and familiar with their problems
The board is presided over by
trained government official, the region
al chairman. who acts as a coneiliator.
If a unanimous agreement is reached,
1t results in a collective bargain hav-
Ing the same effect as if reached by
joint organization in the shop
2.--If the regional conference fails
to agree unanimously, the matter.
with certain restrictions, goes, under
the agreement Of submission, to the
national industrial board, unless the
parties prefer the decision OF an UNI
pire selected by them.
3.-The voluntary submission to
regional adjustment conference carries
with it an agreement by both parties
that there shall be no interference
with production pending the processes
Of adjustment.
II Submission Of Dispute lie Refused.
4.-n the parties, or either of them,
refuse voluntarily to submit the dis
pute to the processes of the plan of
adjustment. q regional board Of in
quiry is IormeI ~ the regional chair
man. OF two employers and two en-
ployees from the industry, and not
parties 70 t.he dispute. This board has
the right, under proper safeguards, to
subpoena witnesses .lnd records, and
the duty 10 nuhii:ii its findings as a
guide 10 public opinion. Either Of the
parties at conflict may join the board
Of inquiry on giving an undertaking
that, so far as it's side Is concerned, Ii
will agree to submit Its contention TO
a regional adjustment conference, and
If both join a regional adjustment con-
ference is automatically created
5.-The national industrial board in
Washington has general oversight of
fhe working of the plan.
6.-The plan Is applicable also to
public utilities, but in such cases the
government agency having power 10
regulate the service has two repre-
sentatiyes in the adjustment confer
ence. Provision q made for prompt
report of it's findings 10 the rate regu-
lating body.
THE plan provides machinery for
prompt ard fair adjustment of wages
and working conditions Of government
employees. 1t is especially necessary
for this class OF employees who
should not be permitted to strike.
S.-The plan involves no penalties
other than those imposed by public
opinion. It does not impose compul-
sorry arbitration. II does not deny the
right to strike. It does not submit
to arbitration the policy Of the
closed or "open" shop
Decentraiizing Post Office Work.
Decentralization Of post Office work
IS being put into effect by the
present administration. The funda.