LABOR'S VOICE IN THE CABINET

...The conventional, hackneyed charge has been raised that the organized labor movement is confined to a narrow group of workers and is hostile to all laborers who are not of the unions, and hence should not dominate the Department...

...He must know these things because he is of them, because upon his mind have been registered associations and kinship that bind him to the rank and file of the workers, making him a heart-brother to the burden bearers...

...It is difficult to conceive of more misleading statements...

...and walked on.—Youth's Companion...

...He was made chairman of the House Committee on Labor of the Sixty-second Congress, a position which, because of his conspicuous ability as a parliamentarian and a legislator, enabled him to further the cause of Labor...

...Wo want to go to Boston...

...The head of the new Department is appointed in the same way and for the same tenure as all other s of departments...

...Wilson a Toiler SUCH a representative of the working people President Wilson has selected to serve as the first head of the new department—William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania...

...It is true, as has been frequently asserted, that the American Federation of Labor has been helpful in suggesting the name of William B. Wilson for Secretary of Labor...

...THAT the new Secretary is deemed by some opponents an extreme labor unionist involves nothing that in any way would jeopardize the security, welfare, or interests of the American people of today or tomorrow...

...A Spokesman for Labor HITHERTO the legal profession and the business interests of the country have been permitted the exclusive privilege of controlling these offices of high influence, although the interests of the working people involved the lives and happiness of the vast majority of the population...

...Organized labor can not isolate its problems and welfare and selfishly forward them alone...

...He stopped his car, and called out to her: "I say Hey...

...None realizes more completely than do we that the welfare and interest of all workers are bound together, and that, would we gain advantages for ourselves, we must share them with even those who, unfortunately for themselves, are unorganized...

...his genial, democratic disposition and unfailing poise won for him scores of warm friends and admirers...

...The working people of the country respect him and have confidence and faith in him...

...Yet, the very characteristics which won for Mr...

...The bill which secured for Labor the justice of a representative within the President's cabinet authorized to speak in the name of Labor was one of the last bills signed by President Taft...

...It is a method found useful by those not classified as workmen, as the word is commonly used...

...Scope of the New Department of Labor THE LAW divided the Department of Commerce and Labor creating in addition to the Department of Commerce, the Department of Labor...

...As Good as He Sent That the request discourteous is very likely to be followed by a discourteous reply, is the moral of the following little story from the Now York Sun: Mr...

...The name of the Bureau of Labor was changed to Bureau of Labor Statistics...

...The name of Mr...

...the name of its chief, who retains all of his former powers and duties, was changed to Commissioner of Labor Statistics...

...Wilson had been endorsed by the organized labor movement of the country...

...Wilson was first elected to Congress and has just completed his third term...

...Labor sought to have this department placed on an equality with the other administrative departments of the Government...

...Wilson the confidence and respect of all those "upon whom the dead weight and burden of industrial achievement have fallen pit-eously the years through," are those which are deprecated and feared by the vested interests that have so long monopolized places of authority...

...These are the powers that control the perennially hostile press criticisms of the new Secretary of Labor because he is regarded as an "extreme labor unionist" and "will be dominated by men who have the union labor point of view...

...Of the 1,258,538 persons engaged in professional work, practically all are organized...

...The organized labor movement does not stand for anarchy, lawlessness, mere individual gain, but it is urging and working that the avowed ideals of social, economic, and political justice be made effective and real, and that equitable laws be enacted and then honestly and consistently administered...

...After four years this bureau was made an independent department under the title "Department of Labor...

...The old woman put down her basket, and stood at indignant attention...

...His experience as a workingman, as an official of the organized labor movement, as a member of the House of Representatives and as chairman of the Committee on Labor, all combined to fit him for this most responsible and difficult position created by the new law...

...This function will enable the Secretary to exert effective influence for industrial peace and the creation of intelligent public opinion...

...of the 10,381,-765 persons engaged in agricultural pursuits, about 3,000,000, or 30 per cent, belong to the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of America or to the American Society of Equity, or to some other form of mutual or co-operative effort as agriculturalists...

...Two years later he joined the labor movement with which he has since been actively and prominently associated...

...It is, madam," said the captain...

...It is superficial and untrue to say that organized labor is hostile to those outside the movement...

...An aged country woman with a basket was the only person in sight...

...of the 5,580,657 persons in domestic and personal services, for obvious reasons few have adopted organized or united action for self-protection...

...In addition to the Secretary of Labor the act provides for an Assistant Secretary, one chief clerk, a disbursing clerk, a solicitor, and such clerical assistants and special agents as may, from time to time, be designated by Congress...

...It is confidently expected that the new Department under the guidance of Secretary Wilson shall forward the interests of Labor, thereby forwarding the interests of the people of the whole nation, and shall create a better understanding of labor problems and ideals...

...At last it is realized that when around the President's cabinet table issues of great moment affecting the rights and interests of Labor are to be determined, a bona fide representative of Labor should be one of the President's cabinet to say the right word to present the wage-earners' interests and to call attention to the effects of policies upon those who perform the labor of the world...

...of the 11,852,273 engaged in trade, transportation, manufacturing and mechanical pursuits, about 18 per cent are organized...

...Organization is a question of necessity and development...

...Beguiling theories avowing that Labor's interests were identical with those Of business, sought to lull into quietude all misgivings...

...Because they have never known the world of the toilers, never faced the hard, concrete problems of dire necessity and grinding toil, have not felt the iron of uncontrolled and overpowering authority and oppression sinking down into the depths of their being and corroding all the sweetness and light—because they do not know these things, they are unable to know what labor organizations mean to the working people...

...There, also, the executive ability and the intellectual power of the man were recognized and respected...

...In 1871 he went to work in the coal mines...

...The United Mine Workers selected him to serve as their secretary-treasurer in recognition of the efficient service he had given the organization, la 1906 Mr...

...Wilson was born in Blantyre, Scotland, and came to this country with his parents and settled in Tioga County, Pennsylvania...

...Labor demands that the interests of the toilers be given consideration and weight, at least equal to that given to the interests of "business," and will be satisfied with nothing else...

...On the contrary, it is an earnest that they will be protected against lawless, predatory forces and interests, that the Department will be conducted along broad and comprehensive policies, that our national strength will be protected and conserved...

...Labor's Voice in the Cabinet What the New Department Means, and What Secretary William B. Wilson Stands For By SAMUEL GOMPERS President of the American Federation of Labor THE CONVENTION of the American Federation of La- bor meeting in New York in 1883 adopted a resolution directing the Legislative Committee to present to Congress a bill to establish a Department of Industry and Statistics...

...Is He an "Extremist...

...These critics are forming their conclusion from a personal viewpoint, interested solely in those factors which are conducive to increased profits...

...It is only necessary to refer to avowed policies of certain corporations toward organizations among their employees, to the blacklisting and penalizing of all those who make the slightest effort to that end, to show that the number of those enrolled on union lists does not adequately represent the prevailing desire and sympathy with the organized labor movement...

...In 1884 the Federal Bureau of Labor was created at the request of organized labor...

...Every fair-minded employer, every one of his fellow-Congressmen, every open-minded citizen of our country who has come in contact with him and has learned to know the character, calibre, and high purpose of William B. Wilson, pays him the due meed of respect and confidence...

...They are unable to comprehend that labor organization is the one means by which the toilers may make their lives more independent, wholesome, happy...

...Couldn't Fool Her "Is that really the Rock of Gibraltar," inquired the lady tourist of the captain as the ship from New York was entering the Mediterranean...

...Through it all he has remained Wilson, the labor man...

...This bureau shall report statistical information of the conditions of labor, the products of labor and their distribution and administer the Compensation Act of 1908...

...To them a labor organization is only a vicious instrument for disturbing the employers' "fair" determination of the laborers' share in distribution...

...he has not "risen" from the ranks of Labor, but his heart has grown bigger, his nature has developed greater depth, breadth of feeling and comprehension...

...Legislative and administrative policies must be founded upon actual conditions as well as correct theories...

...The effort was temporarily checkmated by the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor to which the former independent Department of Labor became a subordinate bureau...

...A representative must be of a group and in a group in order to know and interpret truly its developing needs and temper...

...not merely a man familiar with the problems and needs of the working people, but a man for whom the toilers' world, with its physical weariness and pain, its injustice and oppression, its hopes and ideals, has the effectiveness of reality...

...But Labor has been made to realize that its interests are not identical with those of business, though they are often reconciliable...

...The Commissioner General and Commissioners of Immigration, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, the Divisions of Information and Naturalization, the Immigration Service at Large, the Bureau and the Commissioner of Labor, the Children's Bureau, were transferred to the new Department...

...With every evidence of resentment she picked up her basket, and screamed back: "Well, who's a-hinderin' ye...

...he cried...

...This representative of Labor must be a bona fide labor man...

...The Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization was divided into two bureaus...

...Saturday Evening Post...

...In those places and occupations where organization has been permitted to follow normal inclinations, the percentage of those affiliated runs from 60 to 100 per cent...

...They fail to grasp any conception of the real purposes and services of the organized labor movement...

...Thirty years of unremitting, consistent effort have won reward...

...At a cross-road some miles from Boston he became uncertain of his route...

...The Secretary of Labor is authorized to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever he deems the interests of industrial peace require such actions...

...Then where is the insurance sign...

...L. was touring with his family through one of the Eastern States...

...she demanded...