The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-16

We hope that every business man and every worker will find time to read the report made to the President by the Swope committee labor rela- tionS in Great Britain It is the most comprehensive, dspaSsonae and clear exposition of the subject that we have seen and its publication may mark the beginning of in American labor relations.
 For the busy man cul the quotation which appears the start of this editorial The words are quoted by the Swope committee from the report made by Royal Commission on Labor in 1894 These words eptomize Britains experience and the lesson to be drawn from it by our own country.
 This Royal Commission found and the Swope committee implies agreement with those findings that peaceable relations the result of strong and firmly established trade unonism and that trade unionism in weak and struggling condition rather tends to increase the number and bitterness of in- dustrial conflicts"
 In England the Swope committee discovered For the most part the conduct of strikes has been accompanied, at least since collective bargaining became generally accepted by relatively little violence provocation."
 The moral is clear Once the right of collective bargaining is clearly established, strikes grow fewer and less violent.
 This report is all the more impressive because of its unanmity the high repute of the business men who served on the committee and the fact that of the members might remotely be described as radicals Let us have look at that committee
 Gerard SWope is president of General Electric Henry L Hartman is a former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States Charles R. Hook is president of the American Rolling Mills Company. Lloyd K. Garrison is dean of the Univer- slty of Wisconsin Law School. Marion Dickerman IS principal of the Todhunter School for Girls Mrs Anna M. Rosenberg is regional director of Social Security for New York. William H Davis New York attorney, is former deputy NRA administrator William Ellison Chalmers is assistant United States Labor Commissioner at Geneva and Robert Watt is respected official of the American Federation of Labor
 They return with report that dispes the falacies spread about the British Trade Union Disputes Act of 1927 and that clearly points to the organization of both workers and employers in trade unions-the term in Britain, significantly is applied to both en- poyer and employee associations for collective bar gaining.
 So far only one American industry railroading is organized along these lines The value of that pro- cedre is evidenced by the calm which surrounds the present wage controversy the railroads a contro- VerSy that in any other industry would give rise to panicky feelings.
 BTltalns experience shows that what we need is not more laws but more common sense greater Willingness to the other sides point of view and the stability that comes from firm organization on both sides. England is not plagued by labor spies union gangsterism violent methods and the -feeline that IS certain to arise when bargaining must be carried on between individual employers and thelr own employees instead of by great national unions Of both capital and labor.