Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...does labor strike? Figures published by the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration in New York show that of the 240 industrial disputes in that state for one year, 139 were for higher wages, 21 for shorter hours and 37 were on the question of trade unionism. The most noticeable, feature of these statistics is that the number of demands for higher wages was 52 percent greater than in the previous report. It indicates clearly the attitude of labor to force its demands without reasoning matters out. For the idea of settling higher wages in proportion to greater production never appeared...
...Sheldon will present his views on the different aspects of the labor situation, particularly in regard to the open shop, collective bargaining and compulsory arbitration. He is a strong defender of the first two principles, but believes that the last does more to cultivate the striking habit than to restrain it. He lays this fault principally to the impossibility of enforcing the strike-prevention law. While America is in a stage of industrial upheaval, Australia has already gone through this development, and in Mr. Sheldon's speech its experience should be valuable in the settling of problems here...
...strong advocate of close relations between employer and employer and favors the principle of the open shop, which he considers as necessary to the success of the industrial system as the right of collective bargaining. Australia, he believes has found that compulsory arbitration is a fruitful breeder of strikes rather than a preventive of them. Australian industrial experience has shown that rather than stake their claims on a court which may quite likely decide against them, union leaders find it more advantageous to strike directly, knowing that the law can not be adequately enforced against them. Since Australia has already...
Throughout the meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor last week, a pronounced trend toward conservatism was to be noticed. Mr. Tobin, Treasurer of the A. F. of L., scored the general strike. Mr. Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., says that present standards of living and working conditions must be maintained, but he does not stand for the policy of fighting the tendency to lower wages that springs from natural causes. The council even went so far as to call Mr. Hoover to its session to obtain his advice...
Holmes: Is Violence the Way Out? Report on the Steel Strike...