Selected Articles on the Compulsory Arbitration and Compulsory Investigation of Industrial Disputes (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Articles on the Compulsory Arbitration and Compulsory Investigation of Industrial Disputes Resolved, That Capital and Labor should be compelled to settle their disputes in legally established courts of arbitration. Affirmative Introduction. A. The question presupposes the existence of labor disputes B. The Affirmative merely proposes that these disputes be settled by peaceful adjudication in courts of law, as all other disputes are now settled. C. We must not lose sight of the fact that in addition to the two antagonists in every labor dispute there is always a great third party, the general public, innocent of any blame but injured by every strike. D. The Affirmative does not claim that compulsory industrial arbitration will put an absolute end to all phases of industrial warfare, but we do claim that it will reduce labor disturbances to a minimum, as it has done in New Zealand and in Kansas. I. The existing conditions in our industrial system demand a remedy. A. There are great evils connected with industrial warfare. I. Mobs, riots and other disturbances of the peace. (McClures 23:43. Report of the Industrial Commission 19:877). (a) The Pullman Car strike 1894. (b) The Boston Police strike 1919 (Current History 11:54). (c) The Anthracite Coal strike 1902. (d) Various street car strikes. (e) Homestead strike 1892. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.