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...This is the fundamental principle that applies in the case in hand." There has been no uniformity of decisions and sometimes injustice has been done to one side sometimes to the other. Formed, as the usual arbitration board is, with an equal number of members representing labor and capital and a third neutral party, usually some man of local prominence who has little or no comprehension of labor requirements, it is not strange that its decisions have been hit or miss. Furthermore, it was brought out that after a neutral member had once decided a case he was never chosen...
...committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland has drawn up what is said to be the first definite declaration of labor relations for a community. The plan embodies the sound principles of collective bargaining, the eight-hour day, non-compulsion in regard to the open and closed shop, and the cost of living as the basis of wage scales. This plan is a most constructive effort to found an industrial cods upon which standard labor decisions may be handed down. It should spread throughout the country and as it does so it will gradually solidify into the needed code...
...destroys those institutions which do not lend to the greatest public good" and erects those which do serve this purpose--all through state intervention--is no more true of Liberal than of Socialist principles. On the other hand, that Liberalism believes in justice for all and in helping labor, being itself concerned with society as a whole--is as obvious a plank in the Conservative platform as could...
...Judge Gary and his associates enabled them to stand off the insistent efforts of the employees to get their union recognized; and now the strength of the mammoth combine before the law has been reinforced by the highest court in the United States. Assaulted from one quarter by labor and from another by the government, organized capital ("big business") stands firm and continues production...
...into contact with the industrial world. He comes to know, through practical experience, the mode of life and the problems of what might be called the proletariat. The world in its perplexed state is sorely in need of men with understanding, with broad views, with experience and knowledge of labor problems. There is nothing so effective to promote this end as Social Service...