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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1903)
TTTE OMAHA DAILY STTNDAT, JUHE 7, 1!03. flOKBC INTO THE FUTURE t Jen of , Bsines aWt Association Figuring on Things Ahead. "E WOULD COPY AFTER TRADES UNIONS rheMe of ierrrcr ! Alio Rrromlig More and Mort Irksome, Well Dlntaatefal t Manx Member. i ' "What In the future of our Business t'ns association? I think it Is hers to ..y and stow, at least (or soma time to cme." The speaker was one of the active rents In the organisation of the Omaha association, though naturally, not being on the press committee, was not talking In rt official capacity. "The Business Men's ftaspclatlon has demonstrated Its usefulness 1 the employers of labor who have prevl r :sly been compelled to deal, each by them r Ives, with the organised employes and und themselves too often unable to cope 1th the unions on anything like equal rms. We don't want any more strikes an we have to have, but I think that -- existence of a strong organisation of nployers Will have a tendency to repress rlkes and force the peaceable adjustment - differences, with strikes only as a last i sort. "I was talking to another member of our association the other day who had been entertaining a Denver man a leader In the Business Men's alliance there and he ad vocated the adoption by us of some of the yvnlldoe pursued In Denver. The Denver idllance Is formed on the same lines as a trades union. Each member has a num bered membership card which Is required for admission to the meetings and for par ticipation in the benefits. Out In Denver ihny have even Imitated the trades unions to the extent of trying to force everybody nto the alliance who Is eligible to admis sion. As a result they have over 2.400 mem bers and a business man who refuses to loin occupies the, same position as a scab oes In the labor world. 'Wut to Spread Oat. ; "Here in Omaha we have not been ag gressive at all In extending the member ship of our Business Men's association, and have even shut out a few who have applied for admission. I don't know as I would want to go so far as to compel anybody to Join with us by us of the boycott or simi lar means, but I think we will have to broaden out over the whole business field and make our organization include all the minor organizations of separate lines of business already in existence here. V' Another thing that Is subjecting us to Olltlclsm and may have to be changed is the secrecy with which all our doings have been invested. As a matter of fact, a whole lot of us were against this secrecy business from the start. Ve didn't see why we should have to put padlocks on our mouths when most of our proceedings might Just as well be taken out in the open and would strengthen us by being done publicly, while anything, that had to be kept under cover rould be sent to an executive session.' I i think there has been a meeting held y.i a thing done by the Business Men s as soclatlon since It waa organised that was not tipped off to the labor representatives In short order and the newspapers must have had pretty good sources of Informa tlon, for they got more things right than wrong and kept pretty close tab on the whole situation. I believe that If we want to keep the public on our side we will have to take the public Into our confidence. That's why the trades unions cultivate the press so persistently, and many of our members are gradually seeing the matter In the same light." Recognition of the Trades Unions iBy Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, in Collier's Weekly. In nearly all the recent tabor disturb ances the public has heard much of the de mand of trade unions for their recognition by employers, but the public understands one thing by recognition and the unionists another. The popular impression is that the demand simply relates to the recogni tion of the existence Of the union by the employers; that the employers shall treat. by argument, reasoning and other methods Ith the committees of the union when the question of wages or other conditions of labor are Involved, and. further, that the employer shall make no objection to his employes organizing Into a trade union. If this were all, there would be little or no difficulty in the demand. . The union, on the other hand. Insists that recognition means a trade agreement with It, by which the union shall take part In fixing the conditions, and, to a certain ex tent, shall dictate the terms, under which' labor Is employed. As Mr. Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor, announced during the hearings of the Anthracite Coal Strike commission, recognition of the trade union means enter ing Into trade agreements with It, and this. It must be conceded, is practically what the trade union means by recognition when it demands it of the employer. The question arises at once whether this recognition, as Interpreted by the union, means the welfare of both the wage re ceivers and the wage payers. Fortunately, It is no longer a question of theory or a proposition for something new, for It has been thoroughly tried, and on the whole, with great success. Here and there, there have been some failures, some misunder standing of the terms of the agreement, and In a very few Instances their violation, but, as a rule, trade agreements entered Into between employer and employes have been religiously adhered to by both parties. A trade agreement, such as Is under con sideration, is an agreement of specifications entered into between a company or other employer, and the union comprising the employes of the employer, under which all the terms of employment are clearly de fined after djie and careful consideration by committees of the union and of the em ployer, and this agreement Is generally for a term of years, or, as Is generally the case in this country, for one year. The inherent difficulty which arises when trade agreements! are sugtrestej, lies in the fear on the part of employers that the union Is not and cat not be responsible In damages for any violation of the com pact, and yet experience shows that with out this responsibility the unions have, as has been ua4d, almost universally adhered to the terms of the agreements. A notable Instance of this occurred last year during the anthracite coal miners strike, when the United Mine Workers of America con sidered in their convention at Indianapolis the question of whether they would con tinue under the agreement which they had already made with the bituminous opera tors, and when the vote waa unanimous that the agreement should be adhered to and all its terms carried out. Another difficulty which arises when such an agreement is proposed, is the fact that some portion of the employes are not mem bers of the union, but in practice these non union men comply with the terms of the agreement the same as If they were mem bers of the union. This difficulty will be overcome when the unions contain aft ir nearly all of the employes of an estab lishment, and when the employers are more thoroughly organized than at present for the very purpose of dealing with the sub ject of wages and other conditions of labor. This is being done gradually in many in dustries, as in the Iron founders' assoclav tlon, the publishing business. In some of the building trades and In many others, the result being that the trade agreements are thoroughly systematized and strikes almost entirely avoided. In some of these trades no strike has occurred for a period of eight, ten or even twelve or fifteen years. Still another difficulty is now presenting Itself where two or more factions or unions exist In a single Industry- The country has witnessed recently some of the sword-point issues between labor organisations, notably In Lynn, Mass.; the city of New Tork and the city of Washington. This Is most un fortunate for labor. Two unions In the same Industry are the result of disagree ment as to views of how to treat the labor question from the union standpoint. When this unfortunate condition arises, employers must necessarily be at sea. If they deal with one, they Incur the antagonism of the other, and no agreement can then be made that will be binding upon either party. Labor as well as capital must be harmoni ous in Its action if the beet conditions are to be secured. The experience of England In the matter of trade agreements Is very Instructive. In' England, where manufacturers and work men recognise more than they do here at present the futility of Industrial wars, they have set about devising ways to avoid, if possible, trade disputes, and, if impossible to do that, to arbitrate and settle them in peaceful ways. Packed full of industries as Great Britain Is, there have been, neces sarily, many efforts to secure industrial peace. Long continued contests there, as here, have caused great loss and much suf fering, and since I860, and perhaps earlier, the doctrine of conciliation and arbitration has been taking root and haa grown until at present there is scarcely a trade or a trade center in England which has not its voluntary and private boards and commit tees, organized for the very purpose of bringing about quiet and reasonable con tentment. , v In response to this sentiment, very many of the more Important Industries of that country are organized for the purpose of making agreements providing for all con ditions of employment, and, further, that when disagreements arise and they can not be settled by the committees under the agreement, the whole matter shall be left to a board of conciliation and finally arbitrated. Experiment after experiment In this direction has proved the wisdom of the course, and there are industries which for twenty-five of thirty years have been free from strife. This practice haa ex tended to the mining of coal;' to the en gineering trade, or, as we would say, to machinists; to the boot and shoe Industry; to the manufacture of Iron and steel; to Iron ore mining; to the lace trade, one of the eallcst to adopt this method; to the cotton trade; to the potteries trade; to the dyeing trade; to the brass workers' trade, and to very many others. One of thev stipulations In some of the agreements In England ought to be recognized arid copied In this country. It is to the effect that when a trade union makes a demand for an increase of wages, the board of conciliation and arbitration shall grant the whole of the demand or nothing. This is a very wise provision. It prevents fanciful demands, say, for 20 per cent, with the Ida of getting 10 per cent. Under suck a stipulation the wage-receiver knows very well that if he makes a request for 10 per cent Increase, he will get that or nothing. He can not propose a com promise, as Is the too frequent custom in arbitration. Buch a provision not only secures care and conservatism in present ing demands, but It also requires knowledge on the part of both parties In the consider ation of the request Trade agreements will be more frequent when employers understand that a trade union, Incorporated or not, is responsible In damages for its violation of the terms of the contract. We have heard much of late about the decision of the law lords of England In the celebrated Taff Vale case, the decision being that an association. In corporated or unincorporated, which can work an Injury must be held responsible In the damages growing out of that Injury, and under this decision of the law lords the Taff Vale railway, which had sustained some injury through the action of a union, brought suit against the union and secured a judgment of something over 1100,000. This action of the House of Lords fright ened the unionists of England, and they felt that unionism was on the road to de struction. Calmer thought, however, has convinced the more Intelligent men In labor leadership that the doctrine established by the decision will strengthen the unions, be cause employers will prefer to deal with an association rather than with individual em ployes. Really, this is not a new doctrine. The courts of the United States in several instances have held Just the doctrine pro claimed by the House of Lords, so that in this country an association, whether in corporated or not, can be held responsible in damages for any of Its overt acts. The difficulty, of course, lies in the collection of damages from a large number of indi viduals, but here, as in England, they are responsible, like the members of a co-partnership, for the wrong-doing of the associa tion, and their funds are subject to attach ment in the same way as the funds of a. firm. There should be nothing to cause alarm to unionists under such construction of the law, for It will work' here, as It Is now. working in England, to strengthen the unions, to Induce nonunion men to join them, and, further and which is the great est benefit to Induce employers of labor to treat with the unions through trade agree ments. So, again, under this new revela tion of the doctrine of the courts aa em phasized by the House of Lords, the trade agreement holds out more hope for Indus trial peace and for the just and proper dis tribution of the profits of production than any method that is now before the public LABOR AND INDUSTRY". One In every eight of the patents granted by the United States last year was to a foreigner. The trades unions of the state of New Tork have Increased in membership 63,000 In twelve months. - It Is said that the children of labor en- taged In the various occupations of the nlted States number 1.750,000. The movement of grain for export through New Orleans last month amounted to more than 6.000,000 bushels, and fifty-two large ocean-going steamers were required to handle the shipment. The Independent American Mechanics' as sociation Is the name of a new society that has been formed at Petersburg, Ind. The purpose of the society is to put an end to all strikes and to prevent boycotts. The highest wage in the world, $78.30 a minute for a stx-nour any, u received by the czar of Russia. The next highest, 113.62, Is less than half as much, and la col lected by the emperor oi Austria-Hungary. apti order to get a pound of the new i vimnous metal raaium. auu tons or mineral formations must be treated. The present quotation of radium Is $2,700,000 a 1 pound, and the world's stock amounts to two and a half pounds. A carpet Industry waa started a few years ago In a poor district In Donegal, Ire land, and commencing with a dozen women workera It has crown to such an extent that it now finds employment for several hundred people. The longest strike on record Is not yet nded. The 2,8(10 men and boys employed It Lord Penrhyn's slate quarries, in Wales, I tut out two and a half years ago. and the sVf'lement of the strike is now a question In British party pontics. Australian locomotive drivers and flre tnan. who were recently on strike, are in tensely dissatisfied at the surrender of their executive committee to the conditions Im toeed by the government. The men have formed a strong committee to arrange tor a resumption of the strike unless better con- aitlons are conceoea toe kim in mm V?u so match for the microbe. GLanto It might slzr but this microscopic at giniam defied him, and in many a casa jaign more men were destroyed nj camp diseases than by the enemy's sword. The one way to aim against micro trie disease is to Ikeep the blood pore. Impure blood both breeds and feeds disease. . The signs of im pure blood are easy to read. Pimples, jboila, and eruptions generally proclaim the blood to be im ap u r s . Scrofulous cores and swellings, salt-rheum, eczema, jetc, are other signs jof s corrupt condi tion of the blood. Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery purifies the blood snd cures dis eases caused by the blood's impurity. It cures scrofulous sores, boils, pimples, eczema and other dealing and disfigur ing diseases. ex. .lug fit rives me gnat pleasure) to express my iith iu the virtu of Dr. here Goldea Med ical Discovery," writes Mi. Ksekicl Horo, of Greytoara, Ottawa Co., Ohio. " I suffered every thing fur two years with humor on my (ace. which baffled the skill of mk of th moat sated physician. Wee al once adetsed to so to the hospital ; was doctored there for three months without success. Cam home disrour isetd. Then began to doctor with a 'chemist.' Me also failed to hels sue. The I bearaa Dr. r'leroe'e Ooliiea Medical Discovery, with ao faith whatever in it. Did It only to please my J" : but I am happy to tell you that after tasv f t are bottles I am entirely cured. I Fas. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense ' Medical Adviser is sent re on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. oena at one-cent stamps tor the book in iper covers, or 31 stamps lor tne clow ound volume. Address hf. K, V. Pierce. tfiufialo, M. Y. pap boo Incorporation of Unions jtjijtj Editorial Discussion in The Outlook. Tho flint Issue of the National Clvio Fed eration Monthly Review contains an ex tremely ; important symposium upon the , question whether trades unions should in corporate. The opinions printed are the well considered views of men who have a right to speak upon the subject leaders of thought and action, representing, first, employers; second, employes; third, the general public; and, fourth, the members of the bar. Bumming up the discussion i a. llna. It maT bft mild that 111 vu " - - the employers, with several exceptions. favor the Incorporation or the unions; .v.. ninmra. with fewer exceptions. oppose It; the representatives of the gen eral public' are more evently aiviaea, dui, as a rule, think Incorporation unwise for the unions under present laws; while the members of the bar, dividing somewhat similarly as to the wisdom of Incorporation, are practically a unit In declaring that even without Incorporation unions may be held legally responsible for any wrongs they Inflict. The argument of employers for the In corporation of trades unions Is substan tially the same In all the opinions. The lncorooratlon of trades unions, it is arguea. and the consequent liability of the orders to damage suits, would make them more responsible and more conservative. "If." says Mr. Eldlltx, the bead or uie new building trades employers' federation in New York, "a union felt that its treasury and standing might be Jeopardized. It would tend to make It see that its actions were strictly within the law." "Conserva tism." says General Manager Kruttachmitt of the Southern Pacific company, "must necessarily follow responsibility, and. how ever this can be brought about, whether by Incorporation of the unions or by decisions of the courts against members, I am firmly of the belief that establishing the principle that a party Inflicting an Injury must pay the resulting damages will confine the efforts of labor leaders to their legitimate functions and will dis courage the present practice of declaring actual war on persons and property as soon as any contention arises on any Industrial question." Of the employers who do not advocate the Incorporation of trades unions. Senator Hanna takes the position that Incorporation is unnecessary to make unions keep their agreements, and President Callaway of the American Locomotive company takes the position that Incorporation promises few benefits and that the thing needed is fair- minded men to represent both unions and employers in their conferences. One em ployer, however. E. F. Du Brul. commis sioner of the National Metal Trades asso ciation, declares that Incorporation would not Increase the responsibility of the unions and would probably relieve their members of their present personal liability. The objections offered by trsdes unionists to Incorporation are many and varied, but usually center about two points: (1) fear of litigation; (2) distrust of the sympathies of the Judiciary. President James M. Lynch of the International Typographical union puts both of these points succinctly in the following sentences: "It would take a trade union antagonist with money at his com mand but a short time to wreck a labor organisation through Judicial procedure. Where the toller is able to con tribute 1 cent the corporation can without strain put up a dollar. We must continue to depend upon public sympathy and public support, and not on courts, the course of which In the past displays corporation and capitalistic sympathy. If not dictation." Secretary Henry White of the United Gar ment Workers, In urging the same points, rites the experience of his own organisa tion when it has appealed to the courts. "Our own national union," he writes, "has hundreds of agreements with manufactur ers In which bonds were given to insure their faithful performance, and In every case where the union sued for the for feiture of the bonds it failed, although the violation of the contract was not ques tioned. It was held by the courts that the agreement was not valid because obtained under duress, that the employer waa not free to refuse to sign the contract pre sented, as it would be impossible for him to . continue In business otherwise." President Daniel J. Keefe of the Inter national Longshoremen's union, concludes his opinion with the declaration that "more ample redress Is obtainable today for dam ages where liability of labor organizations can be proved than can be hoped to be ob tained by labor organisations where corpo rations have violated the law." The fear of litigation expressed la not merely the fear of suits directly instituted by employers, but of those Instituted by dissatisfied members of the union. This point In a most striking fashion Is urged not only by unionists,, but by representa tives of the general public and of the bar. J. W. Sullivan of the New Tork Typo graphical union, writes that the union la now a "big, self-governing family," which settles all Its Internal disputes according to the will of the majority. Incorporation would "admit non-kinsfolk at the head of the family table." George Fred Williams of the Boston bar writes: ''As It Is now, trades unions are domestic bodies depend ing upon the Immediate and ready willing ness of their members to act In unison. Incorporation of trades unions would be fatal because It would take away the democratic character of the organiza tion." Mr. Frankenhelmer of the New Tork bar says that he would no mora ad vise a trades union to Incorporate than he would advise the New Tork Stock ex change to Incorporate. The courts have re peatedly held "that their power over vol untary associations was not as great as It is over corporations. Were a trades union to be Incorporated, every member who may have been disciplined, suspended or expelled would appeal to the courts for redress, and the organization would be con stantly embroiled In litigation of this kind. Moreover, sinister influences might be brought to bear upon a sufficiently strong minority to Justify interference by the courts in the Internal affairs of the associa tion, if Incorporated, which would not be Justified, however strong ths minority, if the association were a voluntary one." Dr. Adaona Weber of the New Tork labor bureau, who writes of the subject with perhaps the largest knowledge of any Individual contributor, fears the same result, unless the law for the incorporation of the union distinctly relieves it of responsibility for the unauthorized acts of Individual members. "The field," he writes, "for intrigues between designing employers and avaricious members would be very large. The unions might find it impossible to maintain any funds what ever, and that would, of course, spell th death of unionism .tnd of collective bar gaining." Indeed, Dr. Weber's opinion upon this point and that of the lawyers In warmest sympathy with trades union ism practically sustains the position taken by President Perkins of the Intvnntlonal Cigar Makers' union, who sums up the attitude of one of the beat managed unloi,s In the country as follows: We object to being placed in a position where we cannot do business that Is strictly lawful without the consent of the Judiciary. We will nevnr Incorporate until our legal status Is well established and laws enacted that fully protect the rights we have se cured aa the result of years of trade union activity. If wa were Incorporated, a board of directors would have a legal right to transact all of our business between ccn. ventlons. We are too Jealous of our liber ties, our rights, and the initiative nnd referendum to surrender them to a board of directors, even 11 it was composed of impels. This brings us to what may be called the constructive , part of the symposium. Under the present laws, the unions are practically a unit against incorporation though the Knights of Labor and a few minor unions have Incorporated. The rep resentatives of the general public are prac tically a unit in declaring that Incorpora tlon should not be forced upon the unions. As President Eliot of Harvard expresses it, "I am not in favor of compulsory in corporation for unions, or for anybody else. because Incorporation is to my mind a privilege, and not a duty to which the people should be forced." Nevertheless, among the representatives of the general public, as well as among employers, there Is a strong sentiment that unions today exercise too vast a power to remain irre sponsible, and that Incorporation would Increase their responsibility, and enable the publlo to prevent acts hostile to the public welfare. What Is needed, therefore, Is, on the one hand, the holding of unin corporated unions liable for the damages they inflict, and, on the other hand, the of fering of terms of Incorporation as favora ble to labor ulons as are the present laws to unions of capitalists. Along the first line of action, Mr, F. J. BUmaon of Boston the highest authority on American statute law and American labor laws writes that no new statute Is needed In this country to prosi cute unions for damages lnfllcteS by their illegal acta. 80 far as damages for such acts are concerned, he writes, "the dangers of incorporation are certainly no greater than at present." The unions, says Presi dent Eliot, are likely to desire Incorpora tion If under present laws they are held strictly accountable for their acts. But it Is agreed that unions should not be forced to Incorporate under the same laws aa business corporations. New statutes should be framed. Henry D. Lloyd, speaking from his Australian observation, writes: "The trade unions of New Zealand and Australia have Incorporated almost universally, be cause by doing so they have been given valuable privileges, such aa the power to hold real estate, sue members for dues, punish officers most of all, to secure arbl tratlon in case of dispute with employers. If the leaders of the American world desire our trade unions to incorporate, let them offer them Inducements which will make it worth their while to do so." James A. Mil ler, the chairman of the legal committee of the Building Contractors' councils, makes a suggestion along a similar line. He writes: "A law might pass the scrutiny of the courts that would make criminal cer tain acta done by a combination (unln corporated) that would not be so If done by a corporation having capital stock, or, per haps, having bonds on file with the secre tiry of state that could be reached for damages. In this way the unions might de clde It to be to their advantage to In corporate."- Apparently in a hundred way an Incorporated union, financially responsi ble for Its acts, might be relieved from processes now directed against Its officers and members, upon the ground that suits at law could afford no relief to thoae in Jured by their action. All laws on this sub Ject must be drafted with extreme con servatlsm, and the final statute must be growth rather than a creation. But the time for considering new legislation Is cer talnly at hand. 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Incorporated Mar 6th, 1899, Under the Lawi of New York State. NOTE All readers of Ths Bee are Invited to eall at ths Cranttonlc Hair and Scalp Institute when In New York and sea their heir under the Micro scope and get an Illustrated book of the Cars of ths Hstr. It's "Hair Education." Thoae la Kurope should call or write Cranl Toalqua Hair Food Co., 67 Holborn Viaduct. London, or S Rue da la FarU. Paris. . 526 West Broadway New York 9 'a&flfl nnfH IF! OSIU'eFS !.$5.00 each to be given to UUUjUUU n&E&tiU the School Children off America School Children's Competitive Advertising Contest No. 251 This sketch was made by Helen Foster, age 12, Greenwood School, Des Moines, la. Wt give a cash 'prize of C5.00 for any drawing of this character which we accept and nse. All sohool children can compete. Full Instructions will be found on inside of each package of Egg-0-See telling what to do to get the prize and how to make the drawings. The largest and most complete and modern food mill in the world equipped with the most approved sanitary devices, enables us to make the purest and most wholesome flaked wheat food on the market today. Crisp, delicious, strengthening and digestible. Note The price of Egg-O-See is IO cents for a full size package, such as is usually sold for 15 cents. The largest food mill in the world, with the most approved enables us to make the best flaked wheat food at this lower price. A A e-o- attle Mad by the ATTIC CREEK BREAKTAiT POOD CO. Crak, Mesh. Qutnoy. IS labor saving machinery AK YOUR GROCER FOR TUG ORCEIN PACKAGE . If your grocer does not keep It, send us his name and 10 cents and wo will send you a package, prepaid, i Xddrsea all communications to Battle Cieek Brtaktaat Food Co., Qulncy, IU.