The Connecticut labor news., 1924-11-22
sive, democratic, and constructive effort"
American Labor for Democracy.

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 American Labor for Democracy | In a section of the report devoted to "Industry's Path of Progress" the ex- ecutive council says
 "We take pride in calling attention in this report to the declaration in c1uded in our report to the Portland convention in which was set forth the pathway along which, we are con vinced, the development of industry and of industrial freedom must be sought.
 We pointed out the fact that American labor has from the begin ming been committed to the ways of democracy and that its effort always has been to develop democratic prac- tices In so far as autocracy in in
 dustry has given way to- democracy 1 there has been development of hu-
 man freedom and right adjustment of human relations. In so far, also, there has been an approach to the SOlutiOH Oi HupOlt tdllt pIODiSIIlS Ol production.
 Again we repeat, there is no other way by which we may approach the ideal which all labor holds up as it's goal
 Industry Must Solve Own Problems.
 Industry must find its own way through the difficulties with which it is beset. There is no magic wand with which barriers may be waved aside There is no outside agency, govern mental or otherwise, which may be called in as a physician to cut away the entanglements- Industry. we re- peat must solve its own problems, or we face the alternative of state in trusion which must inevitably lead to bureaucracy and breakdown. Demo cracy can not come into industry through the state. Any effort in that direction results in bureaucracy and destruction of democracy.
 But we must point out-and we wish to emphasize the point beyond mistake-the road to democracy in in dustry is not road that labor alone can travel. Democracy in industry implies and involves the participation of every useful element in industry.
 While there are large groups of employers that still hold to the des- potic attitude which denies to labor even its most elemental and funda- mental rights, progress toward de mocracy is being made.
 Labor Body to Move Forward.
 "We have pledged our faith in the principle of democracy in industry, as in political life. We have gone for ward as rapidly as 1t has been pos sib1e to move. But labor can move onward only as rapidly as 1t can con- vince others to move.
 Labor is ready to move forward as rapidly as the whole of industry is ready to move But while reactionary and bourbon employers stand across the pathway, labor must meet condi- tions as they are. This 1t will do, and reaffirming it's faith in the future, 1t lays the responsibility for deray square ly upon those groups of employers that will not see the light, that cling in darkness to the, brutalities of the past, that still do homage to the tyran nica1 idea of divine right to rule ar bitrarily and that are unmoved by 1abors appeal for justice, progress, freedom and democracy"
 Many Subjects Are Taken Up.
 Subjects discussed in the report in c1ude the child labor amendment, labor and the courts, banking and credit, convict labor competition, railroad la bor legislation workmen's compensa- ton laws, old age pensions, labor conditions in the Panama Canal zone, workers education, labor and the farm CTS, women in industry, insurance and Dan-American relations