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mediator and conciliator aims to impress upon parties to employment controversies a lively sense of the human virtue of fair-dealing and a vivid realization of the importance to each party and to the general public of amicable industrial relationships.
The success of this mediation and conciliation work during the past eight years has been significant. Told in commonplace figures, amicable adjustments have been secured in over three thousand employment controversies, out of about four thousand which involved a third of a million wage-earners. With that legacy of accomplishment, Secretary Davis, with his conciliatory disposition and mediatorial faculties, supplemented by his extensive experience in friendly intercourse with all manner and conditions of- men, will doubtless find the mediatorial-leadership part of his job congenial in performance and gratifying in results, alike to himself, to his as sociates and to the country.
It is, however, the whole broad sweep of his job that offers to a man of Mr. Davis’ impulses the most inviting opportunities for public usefulness. The Department of which he is the responsible leader and manager was created in the special interest of wage-earners, “To foster, promote and develop the welfare of the wage-earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment,” is the exact language of the purpose-clause of the Act of Congress which created this Department. Its duty is to serve the wage-earning class—a corresponding duty to that of the Department of Commerce to serve the interests of the business or employing class. For, deplore the fact as we may, it is a fact nevertheless that we have these two classes in our industries, and that their interests are not always harmonious. This service must be permeated with an element of sympathetic and intelligent fairness. Between wage-earners and employers, between wage-earners and wage-earners, and between each and the public as a whole, the spirit of fairness must rule or the primary purpose will fail. The prime objective of Secretary Davis’ job is the promotion of the welfare of wage-earners, the improvement of their working conditions and the advancement of their opportunities for profitable employment, in harmony with the welfare of all legitimate interests, and by methods tending to foster industrial peace through progressively nearer realizations of the highest ideals of industrial justice.
It is a stupendous job. It is a job which no man can accomplish over night. It׳ is a job the performance of which should be observed by the public with sympathetic care, criticised with considerable reserve, encouraged with good sense and good feeling. It is a job the accomplishment of which, step by step, should be acknowledged wiJ־h generous acclaim.
adverse judgment is readily available at a central point.
An Americanization division is one of the features of the naturalization bureau. As soon as an alien makes a declaration of his intention to become a citizen, thereby releasing this government from its obligations of comity to the government of his present allegiance, the Bureau of Naturalization sets its Americanization processes in motion in his direction. He is at once advised of the public schools in his vicinity where he may go to learn English and otherwise to qualify for the American citizenship which he has declared his intention to seek. This function of the Department of Labor, an important part of Secretary Davis’ job, is co-operating with over three thousand public school systems representing every State in the Union.
Last in the list of statutory bureaus over which Secretary Davis has .authority, and for which he is responsible, is theWomen’sBureau. It was created when the great number of women employed in war industries made such a bureau indispensable. It is still indispensable. A dozen or more subordinate organizations in the Department of Labor during the war were dissolved soon after the armistice, but three were retained and of these the Women’s is the only one that has been given bureau rank by Congress. Its functions are to formulate standards and policies for promoting the welfare of wage-earning women. The standards and policies it formulates are within Secretary Davis’ job for approval or disapproval, and if approved, then for advancement.
His activities and responsibilities in connection with the bureaus under his supervision would be a task in themselves, but it is in the office of the Secretary that Mr. Davis’ job will be constantly at its utmost tension. Here he is confronted with the gigantic as well as exacting work of making the Employment Service capable of offering a job to every jobless man so long as a manless job can be found. Here also he is confronted with the delicate work of helping the Division of Negro Economics to develop amicable relations between Negro wage-earners and white, and between both and employers. Here, too, he will be in the midst of employment controversies, almost always complex, often replete with industrial peril, and sometimes nation-wide in disturbing influences and obstructive effects.
For dealing with those controversies, the Secretary’s already established agency is the Division of Mediation. It operates under his immediate direction and supervision, as, from its inception, it operated under that of Secretary Davis’ predecessor—Secretary Wilson. The officials in this division have no authority, and the Secretary can give them none, except to mediate and conciliate. They cannot arbitrate, though they may advise arbitration. Their functions are neither judicial nor administrative; they are diplomatic. Dealing with both sides, the
Mooseheart Legion for Men and Women
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faction of doing our best and greatest. Most of our Legionaires are great boosters for a ‘bigger’ and better lodge, and l am one of them, heart and soul. It is my keenest desire to do for humanity and give a helping hand where it is needed. Wishing you all the greatest success in your undertakings.”
In closing her letter, the Recorder of Rock Springs, Wyo., Chapter No. 40, W. O. M. L., states: “I am sixty years of age and have accepted the position of Recorder because I am the grandmother and mother-in-law of Ben Smith’s four children and wife who are now at MOOSEHEART, and I feel that I should do all I can.”
Charles Lodge No. 1368 decided that the institution of a Chapter of the Women of Mooseheart Legion would prove a valuable adjunct to _ their Lodge, and Past Regent Legionaire Anna L. Hickey was recommended to undertake the work. She received her supplies and started work on Friday and the list was completed the following Monday and turned in to the Grand Regent’s office. We are wondering how often the record established by Legionaire Hickey can be duplicated.
In a letter from the Recorder of Oneonta, N. Y., Chapter she says: “It isn’t likely that we will be fortunate enough to win a trip to MOOSEHEART, but we will have the satis-
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