Word: coded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of the President's second industrial conference marks an epoch. It is the first attempt on the part of a central representative authority in the United States to draw up a code of industrial relations. By asking for suggestions from the country, the conference obtained the opinions of numbers of men and organizations who did not actually participate, so that the report may fairly be considered representative of the best that the country can contribute...
...every previous war and is not waranted by present social and economic conditions inthe United States. Moreover, federal nd state legislation now existing is sufficient to cover all propaganda which creates a clear and present danger to the government. Such direct incitation is adequately covered by the federal Penal Code. Those other utterances and propaganda having a remote tendencey to overthrow the government by force, fall within the field of free speech and are not punishable as such. The issue is further concerned now with the adoption of punitive measures but with the sppression of propaganda, with the advocacy...
...industrial conference at Washington, although a failure as regards any tangible results, disclosed the need of an industrial code founded on some such basis as the common law practice of today. It was shown that there is no standard which an arbitration board can fall back on and say, "This is the fundamental principle that applies in the case in hand." There has been no uniformity of decisions and sometimes injustice has been done to one side sometimes to the other. Formed, as the usual arbitration board is, with an equal number of members representing labor and capital...
...cost of living as the basis of wage scales. This plan is a most constructive effort to found an industrial cods upon which standard labor decisions may be handed down. It should spread throughout the country and as it does so it will gradually solidify into the needed code of industrial relations. The document of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce committee is likely to become historic as the first declaration of Industrial Democracy...
...some permanent settlement should be uppermost on the nation's conscience. There are utilities in which strikes cannot be tolerated. But the employees must be given some new guarantees if we are to take away their right, to strike. Above all, there is the need for a sound industrial code, applicable to the whole country, and for immediate machinery to decide disputes fairly and enforce decisions. If the nation has not demanded results, it is vital that it should do so. There has been enough blundering about in the dark...