Evening star., 1924-09-02
DAVIS WOULD END
]. J RAIL LABOR BOARD
~ ~ ~~s ss
advocates More Flexible
<Machinery for Handling Dis
.' putes of Industry.
By the Associated Press

! by the Associated PRESS.
!. WHEELING, w. Va. September q
!, Abolition of the Railroad Labor Board
I in its present form and the setting
!, up of more flexible machinery under
! governmental direction for the handling
/. of railroad labor disputes was advo
! Gated here yesterday by John w. Davis,
, the Democratic presidential candidate.
!. Moreover. Mr.. Davis subscribed to
; the broad principle that because of the
/, widespread effect Industrial disputes
: have upon commerce and industry it is
! the duty of the Government to lend its
!, aid and encouragement in every pos
! sible way to their settlement.
! He expressed the view that in the
! setting up of machinery through which
! there could be fair and calm dis
! cussion'' of the subjects at issue with
! "thoroughgoing publicity there were
two fundamentals. first that the
/: boards be composed of representatives
; of the employers and of the particular
J crafts concerned-this would leave out
! public representation, such as there now
/ is on the Railroad Labor Board-and.
; second. that such boards, instead OF
, being fixed in their persons, should be
I filled by appointments made from time
, to time as the controversies arise.
! Rail Labor Board.
!: Taking cognizance of question
= aften raised with regard to the Rail
: road Labor Board the Democratic
4. nominee declared that whether legal
!. machinery exists to compel the sub
, mission of labor disputes to such a
: board or whether its decisions could
j be enforced. were of minor import
!. ance if the board itself enjoyed the
! confidence of the parties to the dis
!, pute and if it realized that its chief
: function was to encourage a spirit of
! cooperation and friendship between
!, employer and employe.
j. There was liberal applaudinG as
! the candidate concluded with call
, to the laboring men and women OF
America to lead their countrymen in
8 movement to have America take
:. her rightful pace in the councils OF
u humanity" and to see that she be-
!, comes the first among the nations in
. the service of mankind.
, sees Three Duties.
Mr. Davis told his audience that
. there were three great constructive
, duties before the American people if
/. labor is to hold the ground it has
, gained which. he added, is but
!. another way of saying that If
{; America is to remain American.
! These. he enumerated as: Preserra-
/ tion of the equality of opportunity
+. and making the National secure against
/; any tendency to harden into sys-
!, TEN of caste.
!, Preservation of the equality of
! right with laws so framed and so ap-
i. piled as to leave all men every lib
3; erty consistent with the liberty OF
. others.
!, Adaptation of the political and
commercial policies to the new con-
/ ditions in the modern world so as to
: make the Nation secure against war
! or the threat of war.
= Declaring that the key TO the door
: of opportunity was education, Mr.
4 Davis was applauded when he an
, nounce-d that the public school sys-
+, tenn must he strengthened. He also
: declared that the Nation must not
, "entcr on the fatal path of state
; monopoly OF education.
:, II do not envy the frame of mlnd.
.he said which causes some men.
even some who are candidates Tor
. high Office to charge all who disagree
with them with plotting the destruc-
.tion of the Republic. To judge from
.aone recent uttcrances. there are
those in this country who see con-
,spiracy whenever three Workmen
!. meet together. riot when their num-
Ibers grow to 10 and a revolution if
lit reaches a hundred
/; Liberty Beyond Control.
= The Democratic nominees first in
direct reference to the policies of
iRobert NJ La Toilette. the independ-
,ent candidate came with his decl.ra-
tion that he believed in liberty
that iS above and beyond all govern
mental control" and could not SYM
pathize with those who would givt
TO Congresses and I.egislatur or
even to a popular majority, the power
to do whatever they might see fit
There is no such thing in America
as government al discretion" he said.
.'1t is not the strong who need pro-
tection against unWise and unjust
laws, nor against the encroachment.J
of power; it is the weak or whom
the burden of such things is apt to
fall. They have the right to call
upon the courts to say to every gov
ernmental autocrat, great or small
Thus far shall thou go, and no fur
ther.'"
Here the nominee again declared
against the use of injunctions in la
bor disputes. as he did at Clarksburg
in his acceptance address, and he
added that if legislation already
passed. providing against such use. is
not sufficient guidance IN this mat
ter, we must write it in palmer terms