The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-10
A MANUFACTURERS VIEWS.
The Outcome Will BE Arbitration. and It VIII
Come to Stay.


The Outcome Will Be Arbitration. and It VIII
Come to Stay.
b. F. Jones. Of Pittsburg, is in New York. He
is the comfortable iron manufacturer who gave
his name and his check for $780, 900 to the Repub-
hcan national committee. In Pittspurg Mr..
Jones is regarded as the mutual friend of en-
ployers and employees. In all the great strikes
that have taken place there, the laboring men
have invariably been willing if they would arbi-
trate at all. to make Mr.. Jones the arbitrator
BE is enormously wealthy, having made his
money in iron. He began life at the bottom of
the ladder. and retains his sympathies with labor
in spite of his accumulated wealth. Mr. Jones
is a stout forid gray whiskered, prosperous
looking man Of perhaps fifty Ave or fifty eight
He was in the Windsor Hotel lobby when took
a run through there this morning. I had only
a moment to speak with him before he
went away with his wife The labor strikes
in New York were the uppermost topics. and he
said to me: did not tell you last fall, and a
year ago last fall that our statesmen were not
clear-sighted to the future, and that it was
this labor question that is to overshadow every
thinga Does anyone doubt it nowq The New
York street-car strikes have served to advertise
II to the whole country. Yet as fact, the New
York affair has been only little thing We
have had the same thing double and treble in
size and Importance enacted in Pittsburg time
and again. It is nothing there for single es
Enlistment to have $500 men strike They
throw out 81, 900 to 40, 900 men with the wave Of
O. hand 1t Is astonishing how they can handle
so many men. and do it without endangering the
public peace. They haze longer heads aud brain
Ter men in these labor organizations than most
persons know Of. They will be able to keep
their members from creating any trouble that
will lead to q serious end. They will not be led
into another Pittsburg affair
What is to be the outcone2n
The principle of arbitration will come to stay.
There will he great change in the condition of
labor and capital There will be mutual con-
cessions. do not believe that all that the labor
organizations demand will be acceded to, but
they will be reasoned out of some of their de-
mands and be satisfied with important conces-
sions. If there are conflicts they will be on
different basis from this in New York The
street-car managers made grave mistake that
they did not accede at first to enough of the de-
mands OF the workmen so that strike could be
ayerted and the other issues arbitrated. That is
what they had to come to in the end. The re-
suit OF their failure to the real situation has
placed them completely at the mercy Of the
strikers. The men can demand anything they
want and force the roads to give it to them.
hear considerable talk about men who want to
60 to work at lower wages and on more advan-
tageors terms to the companies than the men
who are at work, but haven't much faith in the
existence of any great number of such men.
have been through that experience at Pittsburg
pretty thoroughly, and it is generally the case
another at lower wages than he has demanded
on strike. This whole labor question must be
taken up in the politics and craftsmanship of
the country In the near future"