Show organized labor in fight to put end to industrial wastage by FRANK L MORRISON secretary american federation of labor T IS impossible to record fundamental IT in gains during tile past year because of organized labors nalta tion or to individualize probable gains B nans during the year to come coine the best wo we can ail do it Is to observe ter tendencies idea prominent among these liose Is the workers seizure of the cry for lire pared pa redness noss to emphasize a danger ln III industry more deadly than battlefields government statistics shaw show that hut we men are arc annually killed and tire are annually injured injure for a period of four weeks or over it lias hns been stated that every year there are over castes of industrial du illness caused mainly by long kours low wages dust bild bad air fumes fumea smoke poisonings poison ings ond poor venti ventilation littlon and tint through typhoid fever and in malaria malarga alone Is annu dily lly lost ta till this nation nough enough E In ough to equip hie t lie largest briny and ail nv navy in tho world nil and then hen have a bt liance dent to pay the me tuition of every hoy now in college A system of national preparedness that lint oca toes not recognition of this frightful and preventable wastage la Is the he preparedness urged ly big bial bit l ness A that ignores these fuels find condemns war Is 19 based on phrases another predent dily tendency la Is tile lie acceptance of organized labors lii bors position on immigration restriction during the lie past the lie net nold test of experience peri ence lina verified erl led the of trade unions that american institutions crin not nor amerlan Americ nn living standards resist the flood flifle q of induced immigration flint lins hns been tho policy of captains cap taInt of industry another element clement among employ employers ern who ho talk of the scarcity of 0 labor does go BO to entice a number of idle workers to their factory gates as a menace to those employed and who ore lore liable to 0 o better conditions condition 8 these employers oppose restriction of restriction will defeat their policy of having two or more men inen for crery every Job joh another tendency Is ii the growing opposition to callor which class labor imbor power nt nn property the congress of the santes hils voiced till this opposition in to the lie antitrust laws iowa judicial latr ions of tile tha term ann cnn property tn in the like fourteenth amendment to tile ho federal constitution nrc are losing their heir force want wits originally intended to end elli slavery hns has been used to thwart tile the enactment of social legislation but courts have failed to check tile the swelling tide lido of democracy the trade union movement Is conscious of tile the part it lias has played in the tendencies above referred to and this consciousness willbe au an inspiration to greater effort luring during the coming year |