The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-16

CecQ1nSS as substitute tor tT1aI bN Jury,' the council said.
 "Congress has proved that only those who are well-to-do or contro
 great interests can induce 1t to lis ten," the council said, in detailing the
 reason why it asked the Federation
 to enter the campaign for satisfactory
 candidates. These facts are slowly penetrating the minds of the people They are beginning to realize the change they thought they wanted has been an injury instead of benefit i Unless there is a change in the per
 sonnel (of the house and senate) people can prepare themselves for still greater and greater suffering and i injustice"
 l 'The idea seems to prevail that the
 outcome of the 1920 elections means
 that every liberty of the people can
 be taken away provided some in
 dividual or group of individuals rep
 resenting the privileged few desire it
 for their benefit" the report con- l tinued. "The statement IS often made
 that if the United States capitol
 could be transported to the England
 of the 18th century, half the members
 of Congress would be to the manner born'"
 State legislative bodies also were
 taken to task in some cases, chiefly , in the mattenr of compulsory arbitra- toin laws. The Kansas industrial court was described as "an utter
 failure" and similar legislation nj
 Colorado was said to be "equally as
 absurd and fully as dangerous" i President Harding was accused of having contemplated "a system of industrial laws similar to those which
 prevail in Kansas" when in his mes sage to Congress last December he
 declared that ''in case of labor or ganizations we might we'll apply simi- lar and equally well-defned principles of regulation and supervision Gas he i had just previously recommended for corporations) in order to conserve the public's interests as affected by their operations"
 Tt is hardly believed possible" the report adds. "that the President inn piled that the present administration intends to further policy which will deny Americas workers the right to cease working collectively and to de termine for themselves the conditions under which they will give service Yet the language used leaves little room fer a different conclusion"
 The decisions of the Railroad La bor Board have given satisfaction neither to the workers or the man agement," the report remarked in considering the compulsory arbitra ton subject as demonstrated in transportation fields "They have tended toward a more genera 1de- moralization of morale-of mechanical forces The Esch-Cummins law, through the board, has practi- cally destroyed the concept of volun- tary agreements between employers and workers and the subject of com pensation for services has become a constant source of litigation and ir ritation."
 Returning to direct labor matters, organized labor scores victory, the report said, "against organized cam paigns for the establishment of the so-called open shop"
 "Combers of Commerce through out the country, with certain notable exceptions, have lent themselves to this disruptive propaganda" the re- port stated. "The United States Chamber of Commerce is about to be- gin construction of a $3,ooo, 900 head quarters building in Washington on
  iment to be tried in the capital of 1 vii undoubtedly be watched with i great interest by the workers and en- | ployers alike.
 "There Is but one answer to the en- tire campaign of employers for the ] disruption and destruction of the la Dor movement, and that IS continued eternal vigilance and ! the highest degree of solidarity"
 Banks have lent assistance to busi- ness organizations Ito compel em plovers who desired to deal fairly with the trade unions to alter their course" the report further asserted Tn this connection 1t was suggested hat the boycott was available.
 Savings and deposits of wage workers in banks must be so con rolled by workers as to protect fullv he wage earner's interest in this ,onrcst." was the proposal advanced,
 Operations of the Federation of La DOT in manifcld directions were dis ,usscd in brief paraoraphs in the re- port Out of more than 100 bills in in congress" during the present session, it was said, ''oo per cent. are inimical to the interests or labor and the people"
 A period of declining prices bavin:- set in, the theory of ''cost of living as argument forwage increases in .erested the federation greatly, the report said. Studies initiated for de of a new formula were de scribed, and a tentative proposal ad vanced in the statement that the rule should now be: "In every indus try and gainful occupation a wage l based upon human need and aspira toins." Some criticism was implied