The examiner., 1885-06-13
COL. R. J. HINTON.

WHAT AN OLD LABOR VET
 FRAN THINKS OF THE
 WAY IN WHICH LABOR
 IS REPRESENTED
 Bureaus in General, and rhe COnnecti-
 cut Labor Bureau i'm Particular.
 EDITOR EXAMINER-I have been in re- ceipt of your valuable paper for some time. want to say, as one who for over twenty years has been careful reader of every Labor paper he could lay his hands upon, that in my judgement THE EXAMINER is in spirit aud purpose, and very muchl in effect also, the very best one of it's order l have ever seen and read. I have been an American journalist for over thirty years, so do not speak without knowledge.
 But what set out to write about was this Your attitude towards Gov. Harrison and Professor Hadley, on the Bureau of Labor business is not only entirely right but is generously and clearly expressed, with a temper that is both kind and just, and spirit that honestly understands.
 Is it not a gross insult that is put upon Labor when it is assumed that none of it's representative men are capable of filling properly such an office as that of Commissioaaer s Bureau of Labor statis- ticsP There are over 9,WO,OW skilled craftsmen in this country. There are mil lions more of skilled s'muscle'' 1aborers. I mean now, the wage earners. There are men among them like John Jarrett, who welded over GO different metal-working occupations into one; or like Isaac Cline of the Window glass workers, who has SO shaped affairs that his fellows have con quered, to it's own advantage, the capital of their trade; or like Edward King of the Type Founders, who as orator, writer, pub- licist, has compelled men like fIeber New ton, Courtland Palmer, Andrew H. Carne- gie, and Prof. Adler to recognize his value i; or like Peter J.. Mcclure of the Carpent- ers' Brotherhood, or like T. V. Powderly, general master workman of the Knights Of Labor-not to indicate scores of others whose names easily spring to ones pen, that are recognized as in every way worthy. They have trained brains and sympathetic hearts, with actual knowledge won by hard experience. These men are American and Republican 1T use that term philosophic- ally and in no party sense) and can in every honest way be trusted fully. You have unquestionably such men in Connec- ticut. need not go any further than Rob- ert Pyne himself.
 Let me point the moral of all this to Gov Harrison and his ilk. If the wage earners are not to be trusted, if they must always be patronized by some middle class ''statist'' or sophomorical professor" if the class that has given at all times the bulk of the nations soldiery; from whom it's police are largely recruited; out of whose ranks always come the defenders of order and whose occupations are all preservative and peaceful and never destructive; from whose ranks have always sprung the "cap. tains'' of industry, as we'll as the rank and file also-if, say, these men are not to be trusted with representative position within this government, always cooperative for and with the people, when decently ad- ministered, tiff, as citizens they are when power is to be conferred, to be relegated to the untender sciolism of the college pro- lessor, or the cynical sympathy of the pro- fessional middleman-trimmer and exploit CT by occupation-why should the dis pensers of power,-the men who acquire it by votes whose wielders they pe1 sistent- ly ignore-expect those who are untrusted to be any other than enemies of t1eir order, contemners of their interests, despisers of their actions, haters of their course 7?
 In this government and its administra- tion, state and national, every great inter- est but that of Labor, is directly represent ed It will be said that all represents Labor. What is everybody's interest is nobody's duty. Labor demands because it needs direct representation. In the nation al government, the land-owning agricul- tnrist is represented by department; the physical scientists and all the great mon etary consequences that wait upon them have half dozen finely equipped offices or bureaus Education has it's bureau; Inven- tion it's patent office; Medicine it's direct encouragement and representation; the merchant, capitalis4, banker, another nec- oi bureaus. Law has it's department; there are special libraries and particular offices with bureaus and divisions for statistical inquiry in their behalf;-yet Labor has been denied the paltrY satisfaction of having representative of the wage earners at the head of it's Bureau, I say nothing of the able statistician who is now commissioner of Labor, for know in fact that he sym pathizes with the spirit of wha: write. We are told when urging representative man here or elsewhere that we are intro ducing class politics. What shall be said of the animus which can find no suitable man from the ranks of 3,OOO,0 900 craftsmen and 1, 4,OOO,O00 other wage-earners, to fill a position designed for their especial benefit ? RICHARD T. HINTON,
 It is not on the mass of wealth, but upon it's just distribution, that the prosperity of country dep ends Chicago Express. VOlCE FROM BRISTOL