Show Organized Labor in Fight to Put Iut End to Industrial Wastage BYI FRANK L L. MORRISON Secretary American Federation of of Labor T IS Impossible to record fundamental fundamental funda fonda I IT mental gains during the past year because of organized labors labor's agitation tion or to Individualize probable gains during the year to come corne The best we wc can do o Is to observe cies des Prominent among these Is the workers workers' seizure of the cr cry for preparedness pre lire s to emphasize a danger In Industry more deadly than titan battlefields Government statistics show that 30 flO- flO men are arc annually killed and are annually Injured for n a period of four weeks or over It has been stated that every year there are over cases of Industrial Industrial industrial In In- Illness caused mainly by long hours low wages dust bad air fumes I smoke e poisonings and 1101 poor ventilation and that through t typhoid fever and malaria alone Is annually lost to this nation notion Enough to equip the largest army filmy and md navy In the world and then have hac a balance sufficient sufficient dent to pay the tuition of or every boy now In college A system of national preparedness that does doCs not recognition of this frightful and preventable wastage Is the preparedness ur urged ed by big busi husi- ness A morality that l Ignores these facts and condemns war Is based on m meaningless phrases Another present day tendency Is the acceptance of organized labors labor's posItion position JOSi- JOSi tion on Immigration restriction During Dur Dur- ing lag the past year ear the acid test of or experience Cx ex has verified the claim of trade unions that American Institutions cannot cannot cannot can can- not assimilate nor nOI American living standards resist the flood tides titles of In Induced Induced induced In- In Immigration that him hns been the policy of captains of Industry Another element among employers who talk of the scarcity of labor does so to entice enUce a sufficient number of Idle hUe workers to their factory gates ns as a menace to those employed and who are liable to demand better conditions These employers ers oppose restriction of Immigration because restriction will defeat their policy of having two or more more mor men for every job Another tendency Is the growing opposition opposition op op- op- op position to labor Injunctions which class labor power us property The congress of the United d States his has voiced this opposition In amendments to the time antitrust laws Judicial Interpretations Interpretations Interpretations Inter Inter- of the term tenn property In Inthe Inthe inthe the fourteenth amendment to the federal fed eral constitution are losing their force What was originally intended to end I slavery ely has hns been used to thwart the time enactment of social legislation but courts have failed to check the swellIng swell- swell In lag Ing tide of democracy The trade union movement Is conscious conscious con con- of the part It hU has played In the time theten ten tendencies above referred to and this consciousness will be an nn Inspiration to greater effort during the time coming year |