Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-01-21 | Page 4 | Industrial Disputes

to v n INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES The Canadian Industrial disputes act actIs actis Is being discussed In soine the eastern east ern rn states at the present time with the prospect that similar legislation will wUl be enacted The only compulsory fe feature ture of the Canadian act is that which requires re quires the parties to a labor dispute to have haye their differences fully Investigated ed It If unable to settle th m themselves and to refrain from locking out or striking until after atter the inv has taken place Too little of the spirit of conciliation Is manifested In this country when capital and labor take issue It Is probable the strIke of the switchmen on an the Hlll Hill roads could have been averted u it the managers and the themen themen men could have borne patiently with each other a little while longer The same is probably also o true truo of many other disastrous conflicts between employer em emlo lo et and empl e The strike ques question ques question tion has occupIed the attention of thinking men and women for several years rears past and every effort has been made to provide some system of arbi arbitration b by which such disputes could be settled Some success has bas attended the endeavor The case of the telegraphers telegraphers raphers of the Big Four railroad Is now before belore an arbitration board and the themen themen men are working at theIr keys await awaiting awaiting ing the tho result A strike of tM the switch men men on the th roads ro ad t o ago cago Ms h a abeen s been prevented forthe for g time being at least by the same u ency Strikes dont pa pay It ts is to be hoPed this his cOun cOuntry country try has h ls seen its last great industrial