Handbook And Proceedings Of The Annual Convention PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...of discretion. That may come to pass when my term has expired. But viewing and realizing the problem as I do, I hope the time will not come when any organization will have direct representation on such a board. I know some States are doing that, and they think they are on the right track, but I doubt it. In such a case as that a labor organization would have a representative on the board and the employers' organization would have a representative on the board, and both of those members would naturally advocate the cause which they represent. Now, 'as I view an industrial commission, I view it with about the same degree of importance that I would view a court. I do not think our judges should ever be elected to represent any class of society. Cnce they hold a position like that, they represent, and should represent and be able to see, the viewpoint of every contending and class element that comes under their jurisdiction. A person who is not big enough to see matters in that light I do not believe ought to hold the job. If he is there primarily to keep before his e e the people who sent him there, so that he can go back with a clean report, he loses the judicial turn of mind necessary to solve those questions and sit impartially on the many perplexing questions that he is asked to pass on judicially. So what I would like to see in connection with a board of that kind would be the biggest men and women the State can produce named on the board, men of broad vision and sympathy, people who can see both sides of controverted questions that come up.. The way we have organized-our board in Wisconsin is as follows: It-is called the industrial commission, and iscomposed of three commissioners, one being appointed every two years, and the term being...