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Show GIVE-AND-TAKE ALL ARO UN DNECESSARY Engineer Point Way to In-. In-. dustrial Peace NEW YORK, Feb. 1 2. Concessions by labor, employers and tha public are necessary to bring about satisfactory Industrial relations, W. R. Basset, a New York Industrial engineer, declared In an address before the Industrial Relatione association or America, here. "One hears a good deal about the Iron heel of capitalistic despotism squeexlng blood profit out of the poor," Mr. Basset added, "but I have yet to discover a company that became really prosperous when operated on tbe lemon aqueeser principle." Speaking of the trend of labor legislation, legis-lation, Walter Gordon Merrltt. associate associ-ate counsel of tha League of Industrial Rights, said twenty. sis states bad. laws preventing employers from refusing refus-ing work to a man solely because he belonged to a labor union. On the other band, ha added, he knew of no state having any law to prohibit employers em-ployers from discriminating against nonunion men. Organised labor, he declared, had discriminated more against nonunion men than had employers em-ployers against union workmen. Hherman Rogers, labor writer and strike adjuster, predicted early elimination elimi-nation of the business agent In organized or-ganized labor. He expressed the belief be-lief that tho American Federation of Labor would drop the business agent and permit the. menJn the shops to settle directly with their employers. ' Thia could be done, he added, if employers em-ployers were willing to "go fifty-fifty" fifty-fifty" in discussing matters with the men without affecting their union standing. |