Show I I MANITOBA HAS INDUSTRIAL PEACE Joint Council of Industry Industry Industry Indus Indus- try Prevents Possible Strikes r aper r Enterprise A S Special dal Correspondence WINNIPEG AUf Aup 21 Has Has Manitoba Manitoba Mani Mani- toba evolved a panacea for Cor IndustrIal in industrial In- In ills In the Joint council of Industry that t has been operating In this province for three months fulfilling ful ful- filling tilling the purpose for tor which it was created bringing the tho gulf between between be be- tween capital and labor Ten potential l strikes have Jave been averted by the council to roo o far tar 1 It has arbitrated that number of disputes over o wages and working conditions Not a n Strike Whether significant or not It Isa is isa isa a fact tact that there has not been one strike In the tho province since the tho board started functioning and 1 It began belan business at the time timo when the strike season sason usually is a aIts at Its height heigh t In May Ia It may be due as some citizens Insist to the thc fact that during tho the corresponding period one year ago Winnipeg was paralyzed Industrially Industrially Indus Indus- for six weeks by a general Jeneral I strike the tho most disastrous labor upheaval In Canadian history Council Works t. The Tho council whose creation was wasa a 0 direct result of ot that strike op- op crates under the Industrial conditions conditions condi condl- lions act designed by the legislature legis leg lature latura to prevent the tho recurrence of such lIuch a 1 cataclysm It consists of ot five members member appointed b by tho the provincial pro government government Alderman Alderman W W. B. B Simpson and Alderman Ernest Robinson representing la labor labor la- la bor H. H B. B Lyall and John Stove I representing employers and Rev C. C W. W better known under under under un un- un- un der his pen name Ralph Connor who Is chairman Is Passive The only criticism directed d against the tho board so far tar Is s that It has taken only a n passive e part that It has dealt only with Industrial disputes dispute which havo have been brought before It and has not taken ken the Initiative in an attempt to get et atthe at atthe atthe the causes of ot the unrest that pervades per per- des vades not only or organized labor but the tho great unorganized middle class According According- to Captain J. J WWilton V W. Wilton Illon after of ot the tho act under which It operates It has used less than 10 per cent of ot the thc powers power pow pow- er ers era with which It Is endowed The Thc one thing that It has done has been to In Investigate ate and settle industrial when the thc disputes were Vcra current Among tho the many things It is empowered to do but that It has baa not done dont are to Unused Initiate action whatever the council has rea reason on to believe that an Industrial disputes seems lIkel likely to arise Investigate the cost of ot living and publish monthly reports of ot ln 11 living costs Investigate the thc cost of any commodity of service vice necessary to maintain a n fair Call standard of ot livin living liv liv- InS ing whenever such cas cost seems more than is fair and reason reason- able L bl c. c II Make take Industrial surveys to as ascertain ascertain as- as certain the thc numbers of or union and nonunion en engaged aged the thc wages paid and the conditions under under un un- un- un der dor which they work Encourage the tho formation of ot or organizations organizations or- or of ot employee May lInT In- In tt Investigate whenever it has reason rca rea son to believe that an any employer or group roup of or employers Is making makina unfair profits or paying unfair wa wages Investigate to complaints by em em- alleging breach of contract on tho the part of any employer or of oC unfair or oppressive treatment or dl discrimination Investigate any complaint of agreements or arrangements ari made by employers Injuriously affecting thc the public SlUm Sit 0 OK as C Court urt To make its work effective the council Is la Invested with all the powers rl rights and privileges ofa of ot ota ofa a court of ot Kings King's bench in civil cases in enforcing the tho attendance of witnesses examining them Under under under un un- der oath and compelling the tho production production production pro pro- of ot documents and punishIng punishing punishing punish punish- ing Ing- persons guilty of contempt of-contempt of ot iho thu council Since the thc first week of ot its ex exIstence existence ex- ex the thc council has had bad b before toro it a complaint of ot rent profiteering in tho form of ot an application filed tiled b by the tho Women's Auxiliary of at tho Great War Yar Veterans Veterans' association for tor an nn investigation into house rents but to date nothing has been done with It It also has hasben been ben requested b by different labor organizations to Investigate the thc cost of or living profiteering and complaints of unfair wages but it has done nothing as yet et with these matters |