Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-01-26
AN ANALYSIS OF The MILLS
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION BILL

Use any judgment he viii he expect.
81 ana he vii teel thar il ls his par
ueoiar duty - protect the existing
status, Where tile question is one OF
the condition - the iahonefs ar me.
ehanlcs, his very humanity will in.
daee HIM 10 err, II at al. On the size
Of the employer, because half a loaf
IS better than 10 bread, ana
Section IL provides fer review of
his action. hls procedure and his
award, If Il should he leaning too
much 10 the side Of Weakness. IL may
he set aside y those Who have she
money 70 provide the cost Of the pro.
cess, together With the attorneys
fees. rhe bill seems To provide Tor
all eyeutaalities. Il Is evidently
drawn with great care ant BY lawyers
Of great ahliiliesi but its purpose Is
terrible, If il ever should lnndcr the
displeasure of God, visited upon the
American peoplel become the law il
viii destroy all that We cherish as
American ideals II uses the individ.
uai freedom and sovereignty OF the
American citizen 10 destroy all real
human freedom in America.
This Is not intended 10 be COM
nlete analysis. II endeaNars TO COW
Ct some q the principal points and
may serve as guide 10 some Of
those who desire to study the bill.
Resolution on the Mills Bili
I'll. X. lSa22).
lnder the caption Compulsory
Labor the convention of the Inter.
national Seamens Union, having the
Mills Bill under consideration, adopt.
ed the following in addition TO the
detailed analysis of the bill;
Compulsory Labor.
With reference TO Compulsory
Labor" we have before US n, X.
1892, introduced by Mr.. Mills of
New York. bill to make valid and
agreements for arbitration and dis.
pates arising out Of contracts. mari.
time transactions or commerce among
the States and Territories, or with
foreign nations.
With reference TO this bill which
provides for compulsory labor, we
recommend the adoption of the analy.
sis Of the bin submitted by the Presi-
dent
We aurther recommend the adop-
tion of the following resolution,
Resolved, That any form of compul.
sorry labor except as punishment for
crime is destructive of Fundamental
American principles in the fact that
II denied the equal right of all men,
and that II recognizes and establishes
bondage of one citizen TO another
citizen. Let the American people
beware of creating bondmen. The
bondmen can feel no responsibility;
he can have no sense of morality, OF
self-respect or of honor because he
has no individual will He Is alone,
Association for mutual aid is unthink-
able. Deprived OF his human estate,
he Is degraded below the animal or
vegetable Kingdoms. In having
thoughts that he cannot utter TO men,
he is like an animal; in having im-
pulses that he cannot follow, he IL
less. In his lack of mobility he Is
like tree; in his inability to obey
the laws of his being he is less. His
imagination Is corrupted; his thoughts
darkened. He hates his work because
il Is forced from without and not In.
dueed from within. The feeling of
his bondage expresses itself In sab
otage, in hatred TO his master or mas.
ters: In selhshness that knows naught
of moderation or restraint, except as
ii arises from fear Fear removed,
his passions become like rush of
mighty waters With barriers dc.
stroyed. Any policy that pretends to
save individual liberty through the
adoption Of any form of group bond
age. Is either conscious fraud of self
deception on the part of its advo-
Gates. Group. bondage Is individual
bondage with all its dangers and It's
betrayal Of fundamental American
principles. To use the necessities of
men as in II. X. 1892, whether such
necessities be individual or arising
out of family relations is especially
reprehensibe because IL makes need,
hunger and want, the basis of con-
tracts which the American Sovereign
may legally be able TO make, and
which a misused equity power will
enforce but which is an abdication
of such sovereignty for the purpose
of obtaining bread for self or family,
and further be ii
Resolved, That we condemn any
policy be ii of a State or National
scope, the purpose Of which is to
create bondage in any form or for any
purpose, except as punishment, for
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