The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-24

once q quarter, and discuss questions or wages,
LOUIS Of labor, al, Ia fact affecting the rela-
lions OF employer and employed. We then
employed committee OF inquiry, two OF
privately any quarrel Ia the initiative state and II
possible, crush the thing out there Well, YOU mey
Judge under what feelings we entered that room
The first lime-seven employers. and seven men re-
garded as their bitterest enemies. However, cour-
tesy and kinkness begat reciprocal feeling, and
We commenced 10y eieeting a president ! was
elected The first President, and we elected a work
inemap Vice-President, in order that We might not
he outdone In courtesy ny the workingmen. | have
sat for ten years at the head OF that bible, and that
same worstngman as wv Vice President, has SAT
from each party, and we have kept
a. record Of our proceedings from tnat
ments and difficult times TO pass through-a great
deal Of vhatswoIktt Rmen in England call Jaw
struggles and bitter snimosties that used to exist
between us. We have never lost one days labor
from that day to this. The change that has come
throughout England; and thank God! the harchst
Is so buried that, u dug up tomorrow, It would be
tlDued patiently on our way with our
experiment. some OF the employers OF
the other towns would not have anything 10 do with
II. "What," they said. "sib dDTn with the trades
union leaders? Never! never!" However, we told
them tie trades union leaders had enlightened us
some questions, and on some questions we had
enlightened them. Gradually they fell In until all
the unions and all the employers are in, a1d we are
larly tight plaee-a difficulty which we can
not set'e : both parties agree upou an
This has only occurred once with US, when
q reduction OF wages deemed absolutely neces
saTy and just nv tue manufacturers. and the unions
wopld only agree to half the reduction. Aa umpire
was call, d In, ard he split the difference between
said, eve VIII not stand 10; We VIII stike." rney
tired to get the other men to strike. what, they
sao "call in an umpire and not abide his decsion7"
And the suit was the workmen Kept faltn, and
every went pack to his work. Finding
our system worked so well, other trades followed
example. The first was the lace trade, and they
have had no strike since. Then the Stafordshire
potteres and they report enthusiastically OF It, Last
Of ALL after eleven mon hs of terrible strike among
the irun-wOrkers, whicn reduced the people until
they were without beds or furniture, sleeping on
women haTrg sold sae cndPa" Shoes e
get bread to maintain the strike-all on the verge
Of starvaion-t through the warm, earnest advocacy
thing. What happened? They have worked with
out days cessation from then to this
call in Ju dge Eckel as an umpire and after
he got t. hem concluded tney could
and did &C without his intervention. Again, my
friend M. Hughes was called upon to act as um-
Cleveland district The second day OF the argu-
ment be fore him botn parties were reasonable. In
nall Sa an hour then all WAS Was settled; they
wages f6r the succeeding year. In the
which Mr.. Garth is the head there are more tau
twenty boards OF arbitration at work the different
towns oi England In some there Is composite
board OF Tlumbers, stonenasons, carpenters, ETC.,
who SIT down together once u quarter or once
month, and by talking things over ike men and
Christians, with a kinoly feeling towards
each other, they arrive at a proper solu-
tlon OF all their dl1icutIes. And now, gentlemen,
have exp aimed to you what THIS Isl ana It is very
simple, and something which can DE intro 1uced
everywhere. What can be done In Qld Engiand eau
either done III the iron and coal districts OF
Pennsy sylvania, or anywhere else.
The following additional testimony IL favor OF this
system Is from speech delivered Dy Mr.. Morley q
large manufacturer aC meeting OF the National
Association for the Promotion Of Social science in
halI I'm md 70 .haIh hy
plOyeTs ana worhiDgmen:
MIR. Morley said-''I ri,e % express my conviction
OF the exceeding great value OF arbitration IL Is no
mere dneitantlsn: IT is sound, honest graphing
with great difficulty Our tirm employ four thou-
SAND persons, aid therefore am personally and
practically Interested III the matter. As the RESULT
OF experience OF eight years. we are now working
in the most perfect harmony with our employees
twenty-five years ago our machinery was
i'll danger, and trade was SUD-
ject to constant Interruptions, from differences
between us and workpeope; and worse than eth sr,
there feeling OF bitterness between employe ers
and employed or which We now know nothing SO
far nom the NE ling any prejudice or thinking
that any advantage Was taken Of them venture To
| say that among the thousands OF wOrkpeople who
| have submitted to the decisions OF the Board OF
| Arbitration IN Nottingham, there are not nfty who
do Lot regard it as existing IN their Interest," and as
one OF the greatest blessings ever conferred upon
| tht m. Nothing In this movement touches
either the existence Of trades unions the right to
strike. having been accustomed as manuiac-
facturer to act With my brother manuf acturers-l
| v III Say, If Won please, TO combine with them
| claim for the wOrkInen equal right to do the same
|
test. Men have the right 10 meet and 10 sell theii
| labor, as the result OF their conference, for
| the highest price they can get
III it sho5d be objected that boards of arbitration
might break up traces UNIONS and thus eventually
leave the men without organization 20 protect them
selves in case employers refused To be bound by ths
| decisions Of board OF arbitration, the answer Il
| that without union OF some Kind boards OF arbi
| I8tioD could not be organized and Kept working
Tie union represents the men just AZ the boards o
| trade, etc, represent operators or employers. Il
would be difficult 10 Introduce boards of arbitration
| In district where union OF huy KIND eX
| isttd among The worktngmen. Besides, thiS
| system is advoc ted by almost every trade union
in England. AT the meeting in 6s, already referred
to, Mr.. Greer, chairman OF the Birmingham Trades
| Council, said that coneillation alone would no
| remedy existing evils He coud not understand 81
| many men meeting and discussing points aG issue
unless they had some mode of finally settling thu
matters in dispute, and therefore ne TOOK it tina
arbitration, p opery applied and conducted, was no
arbitration enforced by act or Parliament with
Judge legally appointed but arbitration III whicl
there was mutual gel, ction of gentleman TO act "A
mplre and that he was very much In favor OF. 81
lar as his experience went worklngmen as a clas
were much more ready for arbitration ana conciis
ton than employers were. On the same occa
sion Mr.. Williamson, cretary OF the United Glas
Trade Society, said time Of the leading
ideas OF arbitration was the cultivation or a Con
ciliatOTy spirit between the parties concerned
Therefore he felt convinced that the voluntary p
advocated by Mr.. MunSelia was far preferable G
the plan that could be legally enforced Arbitratlo
immediate disputes, but 1t also important 4
that IL promoted better feelings between employer
ana workmen, II led the mast. to acknowledge tina
| the wOIkn an had right 30 discuss disputes on a
equal fOOliDg with his employer"
ALd now In view OF the immense interests
PENNSYLVANIA ami elsewhere depending upon tn
steany and harmonious working OF the anthractt
coal trade, The COMMITTEE are OF the opinion that
sYbtem which has produced such valuable results 1
England should be given an immediate trial by II
application to the entire anthracite coal region.
BaItInsro Frodlos MsFkes.
BALTIMoRB. March 24-Cotton quiet; low mid
ding, lac. Flour-high grades dull; low grade
nIm and wanted. CloveIseea aull az SleSI y