Union Labor Bulletin

BETTER SOCIAL ORDER
IS GERM IN UNIONISM

Toronto, Ontario, -- Organized
labor inherently contains within
itself the seed of a new and better
industrial order, declared Otto S.
Beyer, consulting engineer Railway
Employees' Department, in an address
to the A. F. of L. convention.
Mr. Beyer explained the so-called
"union management co-operation"
between organized shopmen and
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and
the Canadian National Railways,
owned by the Dominion government.

"If you study what has been happening,
not only in the United States but the
world over," said Mr. Beyer "you will
detect evidence of this new concept
coming home to people in important
positions in industry, be they with labor,
management, capital or statesmen.

"More and more people are recognizing
that the solution for our so-called
industrial problem lies in taking a stand
for the regular organizations of labor
and bringing into being relations between
them and managements, whereby the
spokesmen for the organizations of
labor counsel with management, not
only on wages and working conditions,
but in respect to the whole gamut of
subjects which affect the control and
conduct of industry. "Such is the meaning
of the conferences we have read about
in England, in Germany under the German
Federation of Workers, and such is the
meaning that we get from report from
Australia, France, Great Britain and the
International Labor Office of the League
of Nations. We see this idea spreading
in industry today."