Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — LABOR TROUBLES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR TROUBLES.

What Secretary Straus Ha* to Say on Important Subject. Oscar 8. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, has nothing to say concerning the status of the telegraphers’

strike,..but he ex-, presses him%elf plainly as not regarding compulsory arbitration as the solutioh of difficulties between capital and labor. He belyieves that differ- ' ent cases require different remedies, ’ and that there is no hard and fast rule by which differences that arise

between capital and labor can be adjudicated. “The importance of establishing good relations between capital and labor,”’ he •says, “is recognized in all civilized lands. Economic conditions within a country, especially such as arise between industrial forces, have a far reaching effect and are often the cause of embarrassing international relations. More than one-half of the troubles in this' world arise from misunflerstandihgsi Especially is that true when classes are concerned, such as are brought about through labor disturbances growing out of disagreements between employers and wage earners. No one has recognized the importance of promoting industrial peace, both with a view of preserving continued peace at home and avoiding conflicts abroad, better than

President Roosevelt, who devoted the world’s peace prize awarded him last year for the promotion of industrial peace.’ Secretary Straus believes the trouble between Japan and America on the Pacific to be more, economic than racial. He says that what might be called a Japanese situation docs not exist.

OSCAR S. STRAUS.