Proceedings of the Annual Meeting Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...and I take pleasure now in presenting to the Conference Governor Cornwell of West Virginia. The Chairman--Inasmuch as it has been announced that at four o'clock the Governors are to review the cadets at the Naval Academy, I take it you will want to begin business right away. It seems that the first thing on the program this afternoon is an address by Governor Boyle of Nevada on "State Labor Policy" State Labor Policy Governor Emmet D. Boyle Of Nevada Gentlemen: In the multiplicity of problems confronting the governments of the world, the nation and the states today, it may be said that the problem of establishing proper social and economic relationship between employer and employe is at once the most urgent and the most difficult. On its solution may depend the lives, as such, of new democracies abroad Into it enter, at home, the passionate hopes of millions of men and women in every social group that the inherent morality of a great Democracy may so assert itself as to give living and immediate proof of the ability of a Republic to automatically provide in practice the social justice which it professes as one of the articles of its creed. With it comes the call for sharp differentiation (after a period of artificial control of the natural law governing barter and trade) in the consideration of human effort and that of the insensible agencies and commodities in all of our plans that go to the proper utilization of both. It comes at a time when America no longer may claim position at the apparent forefront in the humanitarian movement of people from lower to higher stages through the instrumentality of government, for half the world is aflame with the fiery outburst of long suppressed passion for the right to live as free peoples are presumed to li...