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Show A SINCIULAIt ltKl'OHT What Is called the report of. the Interchurch World Movement on tho steel strlko o'f last autumn Is now published at. great length. Tho reason for such action Is not very clear unless it Is to be associated In somo way with tho recent announcement an-nouncement attributed to Wllllnm 2 Foster that thero would bo a renewal of tho strlko at some comparatively com-paratively early-date. At any rate the controversy over tho steel strike is now renewed and with the backing back-ing of various persons whose names are cited In the evident endeavor to give support to tho conclusions reached. And yet thero is reason to believe be-lieve that tho public will not bo moved by these names, but will rather heed the substance of tno document. It was out sympathy with the stleel strlko and refused to support It las autumn and it would probably pursuo tho samo course ngaln. The report admits that sdeh was tho case, and attempts to explain ex-plain tho fact by citing various reasons rea-sons which are alleged as duo to public fear or prejudice. As re-j nu-dles for tho existing situation' In the steel mills, tho chief suggesi tlons put forward aro the adoption of tho -e!ghtBour day, tho rccognli tion of tho right of collectlvo bar,-galnnig, bar,-galnnig, the creation of minimum wage commissions and tho Introduction Introduc-tion of valuntnry arbitration. From tho sldn of labor It Is recommended that the restriction of production as a d6ctrlne;be abandoned nnd that some substitute for the closed shop be found. There Is a queer nilxturo of com-monylaccncss, com-monylaccncss, basils and soundness In all this. Nobody denies tho desirability de-sirability of reasonable hours ot labor. To recommend tho recognition recogni-tion of the unions, however, means tho admlsson of the closed shop idea, with Its cruel exclusion of all except iho admitted union members. In curious contrndlclon, however, Is tho suggestion that a substitute for the closed shop bo found, though "what It could bo, savo tho right to work freely and contract freely, it would bo difficult to Bay-As Bay-As for minimum" wage commissions and minimum wages In general, the notion Is nlready discredited, since no concern can pay wages, cltier minimum or maximum, unless they aro earned. Thero ts no reasonable (loid for tho intervention of outsiders out-siders without knowledgo of nn Industry In-dustry who establish tho wages Io bo paid In tho plants of' that Industry. Tho Interchurch World Movo-mont Movo-mont will havo to got a good deal closer to tho facts of Industrial llfo nnd will havo to tako much closer account of pJbllo opinion if it ex-pecta ex-pecta to mako much progress with its effort to devolor opinion on the steel strlko or, on conditions in tho labor world In general. About tho best that can bo said ot tho document docu-ment ns objectlonablo to organized labor as It is to tho employes In tho stcol Industry. i |