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Show SEC. WILSON FoyrcncE Declares Permanent Industrial Peace Must Be Based on Industrial Justice. Philadelphia, Pa.. Nov. 20. "There can be no permanent Industrial peace that is not based on industrial justice." jus-tice." declared William Bj. Wilson secretary of the federal department of labor today, to the delegates 0f the American Federation of Labor. Introducing to the convention bv President Gompers as "our Bill." and addressing the delegates as "fellow trade unionists," Secretary Wilson said that he had been criticised for certain statements he had made at the Federn t ton 'a mnvMifUfi o o m , - - vviiiMiiivu Et I Oca L - tie last year and declared that he reaffirmed re-affirmed what he said there The secretary said he also had been acrused of partisanship in conducting con-ducting his department "If securing justice to those who earn their living liv-ing by the sweat of their face is partisanship." par-tisanship." he exclaimed, "then count me a partisan on the side of the man that labors." Mr Wilson in telling of the work of his department said that the last year and a half it had handled scores Of trade disputes and that all have been settled with the exception of a Pere Marquette strike and the 6trlkos at Calumet and Colorado. Mutual Interests Involved. The department, he added, takes the stand that the employer and the employe em-ploye have mutual interests in creating creat-ing a greater amount of production with a given amount of labor. They differ only as to the share that should go to each and under the method if should be produced When the employer em-ployer and the employe reach this staKC, he said, then It Is the proper thing to sit down and solve the prob- tpm "The department of labor also has been accused of partisanship," Mr Wilson continued, "on the theory that in acting as mediator In labor disputes it is performing a judicial function That is not true. It performs diplomatic diplo-matic functions. There Is no more reason why the department of labor should be barred from handling labor disputes in a diplomatic manner than there is for barring the state department depart-ment from handling International disputes. dis-putes. Level Headed Men Needed "What we want In handling labor disputes is men who are experienced and level headed and who understand the technicalities Involved. In carrying car-rying out Its work the department takes men who are experienced and have the technical knowledge of the employes' side and also men who are experienced and have the knowledge of the employer's side and send6 them out to perform their work." Speaking on industrial justice. Secretary Sec-retary Wilson said there still are extremists ex-tremists who look upon the workmen only as a part of the machinery of the establishment When a piece of machinery ma-chinery is crowded and breaks down from strain. It costs the employers something to repair or replace It. "Not so with the human being.' declared de-clared Mr. Wilson. "When the human hu-man machine Is crowded and breaks down from Btrain It costs nothing to replace It. We contend that the human machine should be treated dif- i ferently from inanimate machinery The human machine is entitled to the l:'f, same consideration as the human be- F- - mg that is not employed." Clayton Bill a Great Step. IPs; , ' Secrotan Wilson declared that the fc'M' lc-bor icatures in the Clayton anti- Mb trust law are the "greatest step taken B'V ' by labor and for labor in the last two R' ' r I generations.'' E:' '. Labor, at last the secretary said, C TvV has been placed where It ought to p ' v- ibe as a part of the community. "We recognize that the employers have the right to own lands, plants and ma-chinery," ma-chinery," he said, "but we contend j that they do not own the man and for the first time in tho historj of this I country labor is declared not to be a commodity or an article of com- ' merce " in concluding Secretary Wilson said that he would use every force 1 to promote the welfare of those v. ho toll; that he would use the most ef-fecUve ef-fecUve measures to that end, and j added that In his experience the most effective force to Improve the condi- j tlons of the working people were the trade unions of this country. ' |