The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1919, Page 4

‘your heen You light blacl blote gone fine your behir blem Cale grea the puri XC Wat 50 ¢ be - thei FOUR [HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE eat SE SON SSDNA Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Cl Matter, GEORGE D, MANN, Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, - - : - DETROIT, Marquette Bldg. - - - Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, - - : Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise | credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hereim are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RAT: PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per y i (in ‘ATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER _ (Established 1873) FOR A COURT OF INDUSTRY One of the greatest needs of the United States today is some American plan for the settlement of industrial disputes. Organized capital and organized labor fight and | the public is hurt every time. In modern life one of the greatest influences is that of public opinion. It is for the purpose of bringing it to bear upon the contending parties in any industrial dispute of nation-wide consequence that the following | plan is suggested: | Establish a court of industry. Permit every industrial dispute of magnitude} to be taken to its for adjustment. Have a decision rendered, and, most important | of all, make it possible for either party, dissatis-| fied by the award, to take the case direct to the people for a vote. Now to get down to details: Suppose the court to consist of seven men, one} named by the President of the United States, one each by the senate and house, and four elected by the people, just as the people elect the Presi-| dent. The tribunal would consider only cases affect- ing the whole people. Railroad strikes and dis- putes would be under the court’s jurisdiction. Disputes between coal miners and the operators would be under its jurisdiction. Possibily, too, all} disputes in the steel and the meat packing in- dustry would come in the same class. But this would be a matter for the court itself to decide. At no stage of the proceedings would there be} any attempt to prevent workmen from striking, or to prevent employers from closing their plants. The only compulsion ‘finally would be the com- pulsion of concentrated public opinion. Now assuming the court of industry has been} named and the rules of procedure have been| formulated. Let’s take a concrete case and sce) how it would work out. Suppose there was a dis-| pute in a great basic industry, the men demand-| ing 50 per cent increase in their wages and the! employers offering 10 per cent. They are at a| deadlock. They are not compelled to take their case to the court of industry, but either side or both may do so if desired. Let us suppose that the men file their complaint before the court. The court, clothed with the power, summons the | employers to appear. If they refuse, they would be in the position of defying public opinion. They would array against them the mass of the people | of the country who would then side with the workers. If the employers took the case to the court and the men, before the hearing, went on strike, they in turn would be in the position of defying public opinion. The chances are that neither side would ignore the court, because neither side would want it said that it had such a bad case that it feared a pub- lic hearing. Once a trial was arranged before the court, the whole plan would be to speed things up so as to avoid the long delay that attends important litiga- . tion in our ordinary tribunals. After the court had heard ‘all the witnesses, it would render a de- cision at once. “In the case cited, the court might hold that the 50 per cent increase demanded by the men was too much and the 10 per cent offered by the employers was too little. It might decide that a 25 per cent in- - crease would be fair to both sides. If both sides accepted this the entire dispute would be settled. But suppose either side was dissatisfied. Then it would have an appeal to the whole American voting public through a nation-wide referendum. The decision made by the referendum would not be compulsory upon either side, but the chances are that no one would ever ignore or defy it. ‘ Take the coal mine dispute. The opposing sides would know that the public had formally pro- nounced judgment. Furthermore; such a verdict would strengthen the arms of the government to take such steps as it deemed wise. Congress would feel free to pass such legislation as was needed, because it would know, through the ref- erendum, that it-had the mass of the American public in back of it. But the biggest benefit would be that it would largely due away with strikes brought on by a ~| punitive measure so far as the public is concerned, WITH THE EDITORS | aL eka onomerares eae! BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE not only injure the parties to the dispute, but the rest of the 100,000,000 Americans as well. The plan is adaptable to sectional, state and city needs. If these foreigners do not like our form of gov- ernment, let them hasten back to the cootie-ridden filth from which they came. Albert doubtless understands that our prover- bial hatred of kings does not apply to kings of countries to small to risk offending us. When Wilson writes a note that jars the country © its finger tips, we don’t need Grayson’s assur- ance that he has had a very good day. Railroad men want.time and a half pay as a ‘punitive measure.” Every increase in pay is a A family conference concerning ways and means to cut expenditures will do more than any govern- ment activity or promise to reduce the cost of iving. When a man must choose between his theoreti- cal rights and his immediate and urgent needs, it doesn’t take him long to get his coat off and go to work. oe - A THE LABOR-AGRARIAN ALLIANCE What ails the farmers? Extremists were argu- ing recently that the Nonpartisan league meant a labor-agrarian party that would sweep wide sections with radicalism. But yesterday 1,500 delegates to the Farmers’ National congress, in Maryland, vigorously cheered speakers who de- labor demands. Is this the embattled union of manual workers that was predicted? The truth is that the farmer is eager to join hands with labor for one object—the destruction of pofiteer- ing middlemen who fatten on both. Beyond this he is cautious. He has no intention of working 12 hours to send raw materials to employes’ who work six and charge a double price for the manu- factures they send back. As for his attitude to- ward the political and economic order, he is not! the farmer of 1895. Some leaders apparently think he can still be induced in the words of “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” to “raise hell and let the corn go to weeds.” The difference be- tween now and then is the difference between | $25 and $300 land, between corn that is burnt for, fuel and corn sold at record prices, between mort- gages and automobiles—New York Evening Post. LABOR’S RESPONSIBILITY As unauthorized after unauthorized strikes follow each other in éver-increasing succession, bringing the paralysis of destructive radicalism nearer and nearer to the heart of the business prosperity of the nation, it is high time that the reputable and responsible element within the ranks of organizations of labor denounce the pre- vailing spirit of brigandage in no uncertain terms. In the light of recent events, it is a case of labor | run riot. Agreements are made only to be broken; no guaranty is good over night; no promise is worth the breath used to make it; no compact of the value of a grain of sand. Employers are un- able to figure their labor costs from day to day or know what the morrow will bring forth. Confus- ion and disorganization reign in the marts of trade and centers of commerce where peace and prosperity should ‘obtain through a fixed and understandable relationship between the man who works and the man who pays. Nearly two decades ago, before the Bolshevism of the present had been defined and I. W. W.-ism was in its infancy, this publication suggested as a means of stabilizing the relationship between. organizations of labor and the employers a form. of contract containing a stipulation for collectable damages in the event of forfeiture. The wisdom of this suggestion must be-plainly apparent at’ this time, when disregard of contract or obliga-' tion on the part of the membership of an increas- ing number of the organizations is becoming the rule rather than the exception, and the constituted authorities of the unions are apparently powerless to enforce the provisions of agreements entered. into in good faith and with the full approval of the membership. In the situation that at present confronts us, it ig not to be expected that moral suasion or cdld logic will present a solution. The lesson will hive to be driven in and the public, which in the final analysis endures most and suffers most, will have to do the driving. j It should be brought about through national legislative enactment that no organization of whatever scope or description shall be accorded | recognition that cannot or will not, through its, membership collectively and individually, enter into a wage agreement which, if unduly or iflegally broken, would involve financial as well ag moral responsibility, whereby the individual members would-be held equally liable with the employer, handful of operators on the one hand or’ small percentage of the American people on the other. _it would do away with industrial wars which ‘not ee and property or funds in their possessign subject to seizure under due {process of law.—-Railroad Employee, Newark, N.. J. I i Dr. LOGAN IMPROVING Word has just been received here , = i that Dr. James Logan, who has been nounced “irresponsible” labor leaders and “preach-|ill_for many months ‘and who went ers of anarchy.” They voted resolutions attack- ng “radical elements” and invoking “the conser- re" \vatism of the American farmer.” On Monday the \Illinois Agricultural association assailed undue OW, HUM- THEY = eee STAYED PRETTY LATE - OH, ME FoR THE OLD HAY- SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 1919 Te eee | ral yreakta ngoy tar er | healthy Sdar6: ported to be gaining strength rapidly. THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME | ‘roam aed ttre tenn OW - HUM - H \ MOREE | YA 5 : Giz ——————— — APTER THE tA ; DINNER GUESTS HAVE. GONE — Yes, AND’ I?’ me. FoR THE OLD Dish PAN! Mrs. J. °i; Bankston and children will leave today for Chicago, where they will have an extended visit Ad with Mrs. Bankston’s parents,’ Mrs. Bankston does not expect to return to Bismarck until after the Christ- mag holidays, VISITING IN MINNESOTA left here Wednesday; is visiting friends in Minnesota, Mrs, Jones in- tends’ visiting friends and relatives in Wisconsin points before returning home and expects to be gone two weeks, ON WAY TO AFRICA Miss Mary Ganertsfelder, mission- ary of the Evangelical church, will be in Bismarck en route to African points to resume her work there after a furlough in this country. Miss Ganertsfelder will occupy the pulpit of the Evangelical church here Sun- day at both morning and evening ser- vices, The missionary has spent ten years in Africa among the native tribes there. MAN'S BEST AGE 4 man.is as old as his organs; he can be as vigorous and healthy at 70 as'at 35 if he dids his organs in performing their functions. Keep your vital organs healthy with Mrs. W. A. Jones of this city, who * to Colorado Springs for his health, is' able to get around. Miss Erma Lo- improving greatly since moving there. Dr. Logan is attended by his mother, Mrs. Lucinda Logan and he is now Halloran, who went to that place sev- she is teaching school and Mrs. James Does America Face Industrial Revolution ? Just before the Civil War William H. Seward told the nation that an “irre- pressible conflict” was at hand over slavery, and Abraham Lincoln warned the people that their nation could not endure “half slave and half free.” ‘So, today, we find editors in both the conservative and radical camps who see unmistak- able signs that the conflict between labor and capital can neither be compro- mised nor arbitrated, but must be fought out, perhaps to a finish. They point to the complete collapse of the President’s industrial conference at Washing- ton; to the persistence of the soft coal miners in going ahead with the strike policy which the President of the United States has declared “immoral” and “illegal”; to the existence of the irregular and unauthorized strikes in New York which labor’s own leaders have been unable to stop;:to the steel strike, in which the United States Steel Corporation welcomed the fight to the finish “and seems to be winning it. They also note that President Gompers has:called together all the labor union heads of the country to take counsel with regard to “grave dangers” which confront labor and are “affecting the very founda- tion of its structure.” are: Other striking news-articles in this especially fine number of the “Digest” How Uneven Justice is Dealt Out to Rich and Poor in Our Courts _An Impartial Summary of the Defects of our Present Judicial System as Exposed" by the : Three Years’ Investigation of the Carnegie Foundation To Beat German Competition The Bouncing of Berger Can the Kaiser Come Back? Beating the “H. C. L.” in Bohemia Preparing for the Next War Health Campaign to Increase China’s Population ; How Roosevelt Made His Body Strong How to Tell a Cow’s Age German Opera Under Difficulties The College Cry for Funds Red Threats Against America Methodist Fund for Aged Ministers The Japanese in the United States— Where They Are Settled—Their Social Organization—Students How Wages Have Increased The Men Behind the Labor ‘Con- ference ; A Business Man Who Did What “Isn’t Done” Final Figures on American Air Vic- tories and Casualties Why an Old Mexican Land-owner Hates Villa ‘ Many Striking Illustrations, Including Humorous Cartoons _ Big Improvements in This Week’s “Digest’’ Since our first experiment a month ago. in printing the “Digest” from typewritten copy and elimin- ating our typesetters, an innovation made necessary by their uncalled for ‘ vacation, marked improve- ments have been made in the appearance of the publication each week. This week’s number is particu- larly satisfactory. 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