THE OMAHA DAILY UlSEi SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1003.
15
Both Sides of the Present Labor Controversy
The attempted overthrow of organised
labor In the city of Omaha by an organisa
tion called the Iluslneas Men's association,
while not Involving nearly ss many per
sons ;a some previous struggle that have
taken rlace in the induatrinl world, etlll
haa been quit costly, not only on account
of the loss of time of hundred of men,
but further on account of the stagnation
of business In Omaha for months. The
unique character of the controversy, the
desperate, wily and cruel method adopted
to not only crush the unions and punish
the participants and their sympathizers and
deprive the members of the means of sup
porting themselves, forms a highly Inter
esting chapter In the progress of modern
commercialism. The beginning of this con
flict may be said to have commenced about
March 16, when the hod cnrrlers made a
demand for 2H cents per hour raise In
wages. I am Informed that quite a num
ber of Jobs paid the scale and the men
were gradually getting work under the new
conditions, when the supply of building
material, except lumber, was shut off to
men employing union labor. This continued
for weeks, or until the Bricklayers' union
undertook the role of strike breakers by
going to work, June 15.
This action on the part of the material
men resulted In an almost complete sus
pension of all union work In the city. Its
use was a new method of lockout and boy
cott combined, enforcing Idleness upon the
men and almost complete paralyzatlon of
the building Industry. The bricklayers,,
hod carriers, carpenters, plumbers, plas
terers and electricians were federated In a
body known as a Building Trades council,
organised for mutual assistance. The
plasterers had made a demand upon their
employers, but had, I am told, withdrawn
such demand, to later reinstate it upon
the advent of the lockout. The carpenters
had made a demand for a minimum scale
of wages of GO cents per hour, an increase
of 10 cents over the previous year, to cover
In part the Increased cost of living. The
demand was made some time In January
and was to go Into effect May 1, thus giving
the employers four months' time In which
to apply the scale to all new estimates.
The contractors did not reply until about
the middle of April, and then submitted
a counter proposition with terms substan
tially as follows: x
First A sliding scale of wages ranging,
from 86 cents to SO cents per hour.
Second Eight hours a day, four hours
Saturday.
Third Time and a half for overtime.
Kourth Each trade to settle Its own dis
putes without the Intervention of other
trades. Sympathetic strikes forbidden.
Fifth The employment of nonunion men
at the same scale of wages as union men.
Blxth Arbitration between the Journey
men carpenters and their bosses.
Seventh An apprentice system.
Several conferences were held between
committees representing the builders and
journeymen prior to my arrival upon the
field May 13. I Immediately arranged for
a conference between the two organisa
tions, which waa held at the Builders' ex
change May 15. After discussing the mat
ter at considerable length, I proposed a
Joint arbitration, board, consisting of rep
resentatives from the two federations, the
Builders' exchange and the Allied Build
ing Trades council, to settle all disputes
In the building trades then pending. This
waa agreed to and the two committees ad-
Two Papers on Strike Questions-One by Na- workm(in lo to work wlth an nM
tional Orjranizcr Sidney J. Kent Spcakinir for the obnoxious to them. The union is opposed
Carpenters of Omaha The Other Condensed from
an Article Contributed to the New York Inde
pendent by President John S. Stevens of the Na
tional Association of Builders.
have been easy. The bricklayer was raised
to $S per day. The carpenter with his big
kit of tools, was only asking for $4 or H
less than the bricklayer. Under a Just
system the carpenter ought to get more
wages than the bricklayer. Tear by year,
under the specialisation of the trade and
the use of the labor-saving machine, his
employment is less steady, the loss of life
and limb greater. He works faster. The
labor cost of his product Is less today than
ever before. Through organisation tils per
diem compensation In some cases Is more
and the strike Is broken. It Is because the
nonunion man Is a negative force that the
bcr'cs love him so well, because he pulls
down rather than builds up. Not many
years ago women pulled tne cars Instead of
mules In the coal mines of Great Britain.
Did the nonunion man raise his hand to
rescue them? No. He was too busy look
ing after self. Did the business man rescue
them? rfo. Indeed. He put them there be
cause there was money In It. The physical,
moral or spiritual welfare of men, wonyn
and children cut but a sorry figure when
to the sliding scale of wages scheme be
cause experience shows them that the scale
always slides downward. They stand ever
ready to accept arbitration, providing It Is
not of the Hon and lamb kind, when they
are expected lo be the lamb. They wel
come an apprentice system, and were the
contractors left free ,to deal with them
without the Interference of outside parties
a settlement could hsve been effected long
ago. SIDNEY J. KENT.
National Organiser Amalgamated Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners.
than formerly, but his annual earnings are .wrlrrhed alongside of profits by business
less. Rent and living expenses Increase
faster than his per diem wages. Even at
M per day seven months In the year, he will
not wear many diamonds, own many brick
blocks, take many trips to the seashore
or Europe or buy many automobiles.
The contractors of Omaha had ample
notice of the men's demands and no doubt
figured the Increase of wages on ail new
Jobs. The nature of our trade Is such that
our men can employ themselves If they
can secure the material. Our men were
employing themselves when all at once
they found the doors of the lumber yards
closed against them. The lumber men had
temporarily gone out of business, and yet
lumber finds Its way to friends of the
Business Men's association. Never In the
world's history was there a more despotic
boycott than that now used to prevent our
men from honestly earning their bread by
working for themselves.
The purpose of this boycott is in my opin
ion. Just as much to destroy the small con
tractor and business man and build up a
business men's and contractors' monopoly,
as It Is to starve our member Into sub
jection until they give up their organisa
tion and become slaves of the combine. -
Much has been said during the contro
versy about the nonunion man and how
the Business Men's association wants to
protect his Intsrests. I notice, however,
' they seldom raise his wages, only when
they can use him in time of strikes and
usually his wages are reduced when he
hss pulled their chestnuts out of the fire
men's associations, and they love the non
union man because he can be used as a
tool to stlflo the ambitions of the worker
who seeks by association to be something
more than a hewer of wood or drawer of
water. The trade union Is the only true
friend of the nonunion man. We took 50,000
of them Into our organization last year.
We raised their wages, helped to educate
their children and made them broader and
better cltfxens. What did the Business
Men's association do for them?
It Is not my purpose to say that trades
unions are perfect, for nothing formed by
human hands is. They are, however, essen
tial to our civilization and have come to
stay. They may perhaps be destroyed In
Omaha, but more powerful ones will rise In
their stend. Nor will I say that all em
ployers want to reduce wages- Some of
our carpenter contractors are fair-minded
men, and if left free to act we could settle
with them. Our men, citizens of Omaha,
most of them with wives and children,
deeply deplore this condition of affairs that
has proved so disastrous to the material In
terests of your city. It shows to what ex
tent some of these men will go who think
they have the working men on the run.
Read their articles In "the country press.
Like Shylock, how they gloat when they
have brought the union man to his kneea
and compelled him to return to work as an
Individual.
The Carpenters' union of Omaha has
never questioned the right of the employer
to hire nonunion men. Its members simply
reserve the right, inherent to the free
PRATTLE OF THE TOl' FOSTERS,
"Tommy." said a father to hla Incor
rigible offspring, "I didn't know until today
that the teacher whipped you last week."
"Why, I knew It all the time," said
Tommy.
"Tommy," said the mother of a preco
cious youth, "why did you take two pieces
of cake Instead of one, ss I told you?"
"Because," replied Tommy, "I was playln'
make believe I was twins."
A S-year-old youngster csme home from
Sunday school, and, upon being asked whom
he saw, said promptly:
"I saw ever'body I knew 'cep'n God."
"Papa," said small Tommy, "does
mamma love you more than she does me?"
"Of course not, Tommy," replied the
father.
"Well, I think she ought to." rejoined the
small philosopher, " 'cause there Is so much
more of you to love."
"What a beautiful mamma you've got,"
ssid Governor Richard Yates of Illinois to
the little daughter of his host.
"Yes. When there's a party," replied the
golden-haired one as she settled In his lap
and listened to his watch tick.
"Mamma, has Mr. Brown's eyes got feet?"
asked little Elmer.
"Certainly not, deHr," replied the mother.
"But why did you ask?"
" 'Cause I hesrd sister say Mr. Brown's
eyes followed her all around the room at
the party last night," replied Elmer.
As Viewed by Employers
'Til have to call a strike on you," said
an uninvited visitor to the office of one of
my New York building trade friends while
I was there-vlsltlhg him the other day.
"Oh, what's tile use?" said my host, with
a half humorous smile, which, as I thought,
seemed to take little account of the serious
ness of the situation. '
"Well, our union ain't satisfied with some
of the conditions on your work. We are
going to call out our men."
I did not hear more of the conversation,
but I noticed, oh returning to Philadelphia,
Joumed with the understanding that each "that there was no report of any strike on
side waa to do Its best to secure tne
adoption of arbitration as outlined. In
the course of several days our union re
ceived a very curt letter from the secretary
of the Builders' exchange stating that the
exchange refused to . recognise or treat
with the Allied Building Trades council,
but would treat with each trade separately.
Thus they refused to recognise the right
of the workmen to Join In a federation of
trades for mutual protection while exer
cising the right themselves. Later on a
' number of employes, representing the va
rious trades, met a committee from the
Allied Building Trades council, but could
not reach an understanding as to the
method 'of arbitration. I again resolved to
make an effort at settlement and about
June 17 I arranged for another conference
between the carpenter contractors, myself
and a committee of three conservative
Journeymen. We met Friday forenoon.
June 1. We had a very pleasant meeting
and each side seemed to be willing to
make concessions. I am sure we were.
We adjourned to meet the evening of June
30. our committee fully expe'-tln to ef
fect a settlement, when to our surprise
Mr. John 'Hart, who had not takes prt
In our previous conferences, stated that
they, the committee, would not treat with
the union as a un'on. but would treat with
Individuals. I asked If that was Intended
as an ultimatum and he replied "Yes.". I
told him that I was not surprised that we
had believed from the first that their pur-
to break up the union, ana nert
his work. Asking him About It a few days
afterward, he smiled even more broadly
than when he received the call of the
"business agent,"1 who was the uninvited
guest.
' "You didn't hear all the conversation
that day," he Said. "He added, after his
threat of a strike: 'But 1100 will settle It.'
No, I didn't have a strike. That 1100 In
his pocket was cheaper than a strike would
have been." .
sides. Indeed, It has sometimes been the
attempt of one union organization to force
upon, others the acceptance of the sym
pathetic strike. The building trades are,
perhaps, the beat example of far reaching
ramifications In business. Upon their good
or ill fortune depends the welfare of mil
lions of capital and of hundreds of thou
sands of men beyond their boundaries. The
railroads, brlckmakers, lumbermen, stone
men, the lime Industry, structural Iron
and steel mills, metal roofers and cornice
men, the hardware trades all must feel
any disturbance In the operations of the
builders. On Its other side, the crafts
-which build homes touch the people more
nearly than almost any others. The amount
Invested In building has been estimated by
statisticians as being greater than that In
any other Industry. The very vulnerability
which these facts suggosts has Invited the
attacks of trades unions.
The position of the building Industry as
to the agitator Is similar to that of real
estate In the presence of the tax gatherer;
The late Rev. Hyatt Smith of Brooklyn
used to tell this story of his little daughter:
While walking along the street one day the
child, who had the happy faculty of look
ing on the sunny side of things, saw a
wagonload of sheepskins. '
"What are those things, papa?" she asked.
"Sheepskins, my dear." v
"But where are the sheep, papa?"
The father explained that the sheep had
been killed for food.' Looking after the
wagon, with the tails of the sheepskins
wagging as they dangled over the side, the
child remarked:
"Well, papa, the sheep may be dead, but
the tails seem to be having a good time."
When Appendicitis Pays.
"I don't understand how E. H. Harrlman
got' up about two weeks after his opera
tion for appendicitis," said one of a group
at the club, "when It took me six weeks to
get on my feet."
"Oh, well, your time was not so valu
able." etc., from the crowd. Meanwhile the
doctor In the group had been silent.
.VYou heard, of course, what they found?"
he ventured. General Interest
"Why, the appendix was full of un
digested securities, and all they had to da
was to cut the coupons off." New York
Times.
rcfaard & Wilhem.
June Rug and (Carpet Selling
will bz interesting here for it's the last month of the spring season, and we propose crowd
ing it full of quick carpet selling we propose unloading the major portion of this stock. We
are well aware that it's the price that interests and we are meeting you on this, then it's the
best the superior qualities, that you secure here and that's a feature it's well to keep in mind.
TURKISH BATH MATS.
22x25
2t'.x42 11.25
Blues, greens and
reds to match your tile
Japanese cotton
wash rugs. Blues,
greens and pinks, very
suitable for chamber
or bath mats.
3x feet ,5.25
2x4 feet $2.60
2x8 feet I1.26
4-6x4-6 15.75
4x7 feet $8.00
Kashmer large rugs
warranted fust colors.
Grass matting rugs.
13x36 60c
30x60 $1.25
36x72 tl.
6x9 1 $4 50
9x12 $9.00
Fibre carpet rugs.
18x36
26x54
36x63
9x12
75c
$1.00
'.$2.00
$12.00
9x12 .
9x10-
..$12.60
..$11.00
Smyrna rugs.
16x31 75c
18x38 11.15
21x48 $1.60
26x64 ... $2.00
30x60 .,.$2 50
36x72 $3 50
Carpet sizes in Im
perial quality Smyrna
rugs, the best Amer
ican made rye.
4x4-6 $.1.50
4x7 $s.00
6x8 v $13.00
6x6 I12.I6
6x9 $17. !K
8-3x10-$ $26.00
9x12 .60
Navajo 8myrna. pat
terns copied from
Navajo Blankets, nil
wool fast colors and
slzna, $1.60, $2.00, $2 50.
$300 and $4.00
AXMINSTER RUGS.
Smith's Axminster
8-3xl0- $22.50
8x12 $25.00
Sanford Axminster
6x9 $1800
8-3x10-6 (no seams). .$'J7.()
9x12 $-750
Reed's Axminster
8-3x10-6 1-6.S0
9x12 W W
Blgelow Axminster
18x36 Inch
30x60 Inch
3t72 Inch
8-Jxl0-6
. $2.00
. $4.35
. $8.60
.$35.00
9x12 feet $40.00
Electra Axminster
ixx.36 inch $1.25
27xr,4 Inch $2.75
36x72 inch $4.25
WILTON RUGS.
912
English Wilton
18x36 Inch '. $3.50
27x64 Inch $6.25
36x63 inch $9.00
French Wilton
27x 54 Inch $5.75
36x63 Inch $8.60
4-6x7-6 $21.00
8-3x10-6 $45.00
Ventnor Wilton
18x36 lpch
27x54 Inch
Brussels Rugs
7x9 feet
9x12 feet
9x10-6
9x12 feet .
,.$50.00
..- $2.W
'.. $3.50
$12.60
$20.00
$12.00
.$15.00 $17.50
RUGS MADE FROM REMNANTS OF CARPETS.
Body Brussels Rugs
8-3x11-10 Extra Axminster $-4.50
8-3x9-2 Wilton Velvet $---50
8-3x10-4 Axminster $-2 50
8-3x10-10 Body Brussels $J3.00
8-8x11-2 Wilton Velvet $2100
8-3x10-7 Extra Axminster $:i "0
8-3x10 Savonerlo Axminster fcM.au
8-3x13-6 Axminster $22.00
8-3x13-3 HrusHi-ls $25.00
8-3x13-6 Extra Axminster $24.00
8-3x12-9 Axminster $22.00
8-3x12-5 Body Brussels $23.50
9x11-3 Body Brussels $19.00
9x10-4 iirUHsels
9x11 Brussels
104ix)2 Brussels ...
10-6x11-9 Velvet ...
10-iixll-4 Brussels .
8-3x10-6 Brussels ..
10-ISX13-8 Brussels .
10-6x12-7 Moquette
.$14.50
.$13.60
$18. 00
$17.50
$20.00
,. $16.00
$19.00
$24.60
8-3x10-6 $24.00
6x9 feet , $20.00
9xJ2 feet ......$28.50
9x15 foet ' .50
10-6x12 $38.60
10-6x13-6 ..: $12.60
10-6x16 $t5.00
INGRAIN CARPET
Warranted by us to be equal to any wool Ingrain made,
LINOLEUM
Made of long fibre wool
cotton warp. 60c a lard.
tilling and extra heavy twisted
Genuine ground cork and linseed oil. Nothing else so good
for service, t5c. Extra hesvy quality, 95c. Best inlaid pat
tern, will not wear off, $1.25 and $1.50.
BIG SALE OF IRON BEDS
Monday morning we place on special sale all iron beds in the late
fancy designs and colorings, brass trimmed, of a certain make that we
fi desire to close out on account of our not going to handle this line next
jfall. These beds we have taken from our regular stock and placed
them all conveniently on the first floor. There are about 25 designs
in various colors and combination of colors. It is our desire to close these beds out at once
at a sacrifice of price and we have made the prices so low that anyone in need of an iron
bed cannot afford to miss tliis opportunity. A positive bonafide reduction on high grade
goods and you save from 33 1-3 to 50 per cent. On sale Monday at 8 o'clock.
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MAKES PIKE BLOOD .
And helps you to stand the hot weather; It
makes you strong and keeps the liver and
kidneys in proper condition. Thirty days'
treatment, 25c. All druggists.
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The time' came at last when - timorous it cannot escape attack. Assaults upon It
assent to the demands of blackmailers in
the guise of walking delegates couni no
longer serve even as a palliative of labor's
exactions. Union of labor could be effect
tlvely encountered only by union of em
ployers. The great, grim struggle so long
Impending had become a set battle.
"Labor's unrest,", of which we hear so
much today. Is not an unrest at all; It Is
a mere expression of two unjust phases of
- the labor question. One Is the , walking
delegate, the other Is the tntoxtcatlon of
power felt by trades unions, an Intoxication
which. In the building trades at least, has
reached Its climax.
Labor has never been better paid- In the
history of the human family than it is In
the United States today; yet there has
rarely been suoh "unrest." The two facts
must be taken together If we desire any
Just estimate of the situation.' We have
labor threatened with starvation "In the
midst .of unexampled plenty, while capital
Is without earnings, lying Idle by the tens
... of It. and uDon that ground we -pf millions, afraid to go Into operations
would meet the Issue.
Since the last conference, at which our
committee received from the contractors
their ultimatum, a number of our mem
ber have received communloatlons read
ing aa follows:
Mr sir: I have some work on hand
now and If you wish to work for me, as an
individual. In future I will give
cents per hour,
I will give you
this is what you are
Controlled by trades unions. Such are the
most obvious results of the "unrest" that
exists In the time of the greatest pros
peilty. The weapons which labor Is wielding are
themselves undergoing a change. Most
men have a quiet, often unacknowledged,
sympathy for the workingman who is mak
ing a fair fight for better conditions by
using the old-fashioned strike; but the old
fashioned, fair and sq':re strike has be
come obsolete. - In Its place we have some
thing else the so-called "sympathetic
strike." If Jones strike against Smith In
Georgia. Brown and Roblnvm must have
rated at by the' contractors of Omaha, and
we have agreed to pay you no less, but we
will not settle witn me union.
spectfully.
la not this communication proof uor.ltlve
that the purpose of the Business Men's as
sociation Is not only to crusn tne union a uarr,i )n New Tork or Ban Fr4ncUco.
but to dictate the terms under which the Tnat , tne ,0f;c of the ,ympathetlc Btrke.
men shall work? We were told by the con- The attltude of the building trades Is best
in-nri that they purposed making a Hat
w. " . -a - aaasan,. a. ( V I . nui allien HUUIU WCI V fj I'
of all the carpenters in the city ana as- o( a we known comc paper, where an can wages, they deny to American youth
signing them eucn wag "-w - employer calls up his workmen and shows
are mischievous for reasons little thought
of. Such attacks oje really directed upon
the business of Investing and saving the
products of Industry. This age is In ad
vance of almost every other in that It
offers unrivaled opportunities and safety
for the Investment of accumulated earn
ings. Land and buildings are a recognised
form for such safe keeping; and a course
of action which renders It more costly or
less safe is really an attack upon the best
results of civilisation.
In still another form Is the mischief suf
fered by the building trades felt by the
community, though the community Is to a
great extent unconscious of its cause. It
Is In the encouragement ' given to stock
speculation by the temporary uncertain
ties or dangers of safer forms of Invest
ment. I am of the opinion that much of
the vast stock Inflation of recent months
and the Injurious collapse of values were
due to the overwhelming desire for Invest
ments for money, which have been turned
aside from the building field In the course
of the attacks made upon It by strikes.
The present stage of the danger Is dif
ferent from almost all others In that It haa
passed all questions of wages, of Just
treatment, hours of labor, or any other
matter properly within the purview of
trades union action. The agitation of today
Ignores the vary groundwork of men's
rights to their property and labor. The or
ganizations existing among master builders
In the various cities have come to the con
clusion that a crisis Is at hand; that 'Jlx
weeks' or six months' cessation of work Is
bettor,ythan the endurance of present con
ditions. They are acting accordingly.
Trades unlms are helping, In more di
rect ways. In the work of turning over our
Industries to foreigners. Declaring that
American workmen should receive Amerl-
thera. worth, starting wun jo i:c..i
hour. I was iot Informed wnetMr eacn
man was to be numbered, as are the con
victs In a penitentiary, buv like the ox or
mule to all Intent and purposes he was to
be labeled. He. the worker, waa to have
them' the words, written on a placard:
"The sympathetlo lockout Is as logical
aa the sympathetic strike."
The sympathetic strike Is our only ef- .
fectlve weapon," say its advocates. The
statement is Itself sn abandonment of all
as fur as lies In their power, the right and
opportunity to learn trades. The limita
tions on the number of apprentices allowed
la a familiar example. It is not so gen
erally known that they Insist upon periods
of apprenticeship that are arbitrarily fixed,
with no reference to the capacity of the
learner. The youth who, by natural skill
or Intense application, can learn the trade
nless he can be a party to the terms under
which he labors. The ckattei siave per
formed coerced labor. His master fixed the
tondltlons under which he should labor
without the slave s consent, and whenever
the employer can fix my wages and my
conditions of employment arbitrarily then
1 am a slave n amount of sophistry can
change It. Thus the labor unions can
chargo thut the Omaha Business Men's as
sociation and Its agents and allies are In-
ito voice In the conditions unaer wnicn n justification. It Is merely an extenuation,
m,.. .mnlnvad. The only essential difference an ostensible excuse not an innui ih.
between the free man ana me siave uaa 1.1 rlgnt Tna mn admt howvei that If ' within two years Is obliged to spend a full
term as a pupil along with the most stupid
or most Indolent of his fellows. Em
ployers, too, are at one with their most
unreasonable workmen In enforcing the
rule.
The present outlook In relation to trades
unions is serious. No assault is Intended
up-m the principle of unionism;' but no one
knows where power unrestrained will lead.
Business men in union are far more power
ful than laboring men, and can defeat
their most formidable uprisings. The con
sciousness of power which the demon
stration affords will cause. In some minds,
a desire for reprisals for Injuries Inflicted
by brutal and unjust strikes In the past.
Should they come It will be Justification to
say that the workmen, by their arbitrary
acts, have brought retribution upon them-
The thing to be considered will
then te whether the very Independence of
American labor Is not Itself In danger.
The backward swing of the pendulum, from
the present excesses of the unions, ma
be far; those who wish well for their coun
try and JIM people must hope sincerely
that it will not result In a permanent
lowering of the tone of labor In the United
States.
The unions, by meeting the situation In
a spirit of fairness, by the abolition of vio
lence, of boycotts and the sympathetic
strike, can avert their danger.
JOHN 8. STEVENS.
the right of the free man to refuse to work employers were organised as thoroughly
as they, the workers would be powerless.
The , admission is Impressive; It Is now
being acted upon.
Chicago bull for, two years ago, recog
nised he danger involved In the sympa
thetic strike, and, by Joining hands, sup
pressed formidable revolts and proctrej
the abrogation of some highly mischievous
and unjust rules. The lesson appears to
have been loat upon workmen elsewhere.
Demands acceded to a-rew hv wh.i
troducing Into Omaha a system of despotlo fM upon. no rat, of no prlnr)p(J of
slavery, as subversive 01 numan uufru - Duslnesa management, appeared ever to
waa ever chattel slavery In the south. It br,na. .ttlexj conditions. In 18S8. the second
Is the same old battle of the dollar versus y.ar of the Master Builders' National as-
the man. The trade union has Incurred .oclatlon. that body took Its first step
tl displeasure of the business world be- iooi,na- to the formation of permanently
m it hua undertaken to establish a high organised bodies whose obtm-t ahrmM v,.
standard of living for Its members and to conciliation.. Everything that could be dono selves.
secure for them ample remuneraimn. mm t0 MCure some fixed principle or method
trade union hss brought God s sunshine Into ,f dealing with labor haa since been tried.
the sweater's aen ana hm " one year ago the National Association of
Builders made a most careful and thor
oughgoing effort to organise conciliation In
New Tork. employing Its secretary. Wil
liam H.- Hayward of Boston, for the pur
pose. He formed a complete plan, but It
fell through. The men would not give It
their adherence. The situation has since
grown steadily worse.
"Betterment of labor" la no longer the
pretense In many of the difficulties forced
threw down the other traaes ana oir '"i""Jr'a. n is onen a war between
obligations and pledges to them as the unions. In which the employer Is between President of the National Association af
v. . . ... . n.,K ..ttl.m.nt would the Ilnea and recelvaa .
bodies and souls of our cnuaren irora
slavieh cnd!Uona In shop, factorv and
store all this Interfering with unlimited
profits, and this Is at the very bottom Of
the crusade against the labor unions.
The matter ot wages has never been a
serious Issue between contractors and our
men. We have ever stood ready to make
reasonable cones
bosses half way.
Ions, and to meet tne
Had w been willing to
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