Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-17
DENOUNCED BY DEPEW.
CHAUNcEY NJ. SAYS HE HAS NO USE FOR
LABOR TRUSTS.


Powderly-CompIiment for Chief Ar
thur-Some Funny Stories.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, on being introduced
was received with round of applause
three times repeated before the audience
would hear him. He advanced up the stage
acknowledging, with repeated bows, the fiatter
ing reception accorded him. In the course OF
| a lengthy speech Mr. Depew said:
Only an invitation of unusual attrsctivenes!
| could induce me to spend TWO nights on the sleep
ing car and deliver address, but your call 10 bt
with you Tor the third time was an indication OF
| the unabated friendship which has existed be.
tween us that demanded an equally cordial recog.
nirion. NV voluble and voinmin0us friend, Mr
Powderr, said recently, that at the meeting of the
addressed in the Opera House at New Haven, lusl
before sailing for Europe, YOUR grand chie1 Mr..
each others arms and kissing. daughter
don't know what kind of kisser Arthur is,
| but while there were many Kodack fends there,
| that event did not take place. am glad now, as
| then. to express the esteem felt by everyone for
the man whose ability and conservatism have
done so much to elevate and dignity labor and to
! win for Its efforts the respect of the country.
! This Is the twenty-seventh annual convention OF
| ing the period of your existence and prosperous
| growth hundreds OF labor organizations have
started to carry out novel theories or to put in
| practice unusual ana untred processes. The
aud answering adherence to the right
principles upon which it was founded.
THE NECESSITIES FOR SUCCESS.
1t is clear that success is impossible unless the
manhood of the individual is secure and his
ability to improve his condition and rise above
his surroundings is conceded. That the fireman
can become locomotive engineer. the LOGON otive
engineer tine master mechanic, the master me-
chanic the superintendent of motive power the
superintendent of motive power the superinIend-
ent or general manager of the railway and posi-
hv its president is the law of oar American de-
vclopment and the source of our national pre-
eminence.
The fundamental idea of your brotherhood is,
first charity In support of the sick or injured,
and contrib utions to the families of the dead Sec
ond. education. which perfects the artisan in the
theory and pr actice of his trade and broadens
him for larger usefulness citizen: and, third.
protection in securing and maintaining your
rights. We lave in this country no accurate re-
ports to the administration of the funds of la
Dor organizations or trade unions. but in England
| these returns made. and from them 1 gather
that for the last year 10 of the leading trade union
organizations of Great Britain expended 81, 300 900
/ in cha rity ana insurance for their members and
| only sI2o. 600 i'm labor disputes.
In the United States our pace is so rapid and
! our DEVELOPMENT so phenomenal that Without
| due consideration we rush rapidly TO extremes
| This IS true both of capital and labor Efforts
have been made to form gigantic Labor trusts but
the scheme is toolarge. No brain yet made could
possibly grasp it.
Within a few wears everything from pine lands
TO peanuts and from sugar to sardnes, has been
organized intasome form of corporation or trust
This universal effort TO absorb the individual to
divide the people into employing companies and
employees and to destroy competition, will in
the laws oftrade will leave only the legitimate en-
terprises surviving. In all such associations of
trades and occupations having nothing in COM
mon, certain qualities OF audacity fuency of
speech and capacity for manipulating caucuses
know little of the great interests conded to their
care.
THE OPERATIONS OF A TRUST,
In the operations Of what l may call the labor
trust have had three experiences. force of 10
men were located at one point on the line and in
common with other trades in that neighborhood
were members of the local assembly. This as
sembly had in it a carpenter, a glassblower. .
piano-tuner, dancing master [Iaughterl and so
on. They were all in it. Ii was like Scotch
haggis. Laughter The master workman of
that assembly was shoemaker who had quarrel
with a passenger conductor and TO get even with
the rar%ad ordered tbt, these ,nH men TO quit
the attendant misery to themselves and their
ou %P have new ever whg g b neS av
sented any statement. A high official In the order
called upon me by an appointment made by his
private secretary In discussing the alleged grev-
ancc which he came to correct, speedily dscOv-
cred that he knew nothing either of the character
of the work. or the wages paid. or the hours of
service of the people whom he represented. He
then confessed that tie never had been in the rail-
way service or worked an hour upon railroad in
his lite.
| said to him, 81 am paid largely for my time,
but not paid for overtime found he did not
know ANYTHING about what lie had come TO talk to
me about.
A committee called upon me last fall with a
series of complaints and demands all of which
were quickly and satisfactorily adjusted. They
then made demand for the Locomotive Engi-
neers. / said to them. gentlemen. that is a
body able TO speak for ITSELF They then said
of Locomotive Engineers and to gather into the
one organization every department of the rail-
way service and that If the manageme ent
of the Central road would recognize the
claims of engineers only through them,
and upon a mucn lower basis than the Brother
hood could admit under their rules. and IL we did
not do SO they would strike and tie up the road.
I TEtin tn hen rnp rh ha fhprhn of TO-
comotive Engineers rs the best labor organiza-
tion in the United states as safeguard both to
reasonable demands or Incorporate violence, and
you NAV do your worst. but in q matter which af-
Them That night the officers of the Brother
hood were informed. and the concession made to
them, and that threat Of strike was never carried
out.
HOW HE WENT ABROAD.
Years of successful trial, of fair, frank and
friendly discussions with the employees Of the Gen.
trail upon questions of differences which arose
from time to time. had led Inc to believe that
strike was impossible upon the line OF that road.
In that trust went abroad on my annual holiday
during the summer to have my hopes roughly
shattered while musng at Oberammergau one
Sunday evening on the happy lesson of peace and
good will among men taught by the Passion PLAY.
by cable announcing that the words .'webster's
thousands to desert their posts. and the greatest
artery of commerce and travel in the United States
to be stopped. But when reached Vienna l
ceived cable that reassured me. 1t read: The
engineers stand firm tApplausel
In the riots Of 1861 when the City of New York
was in the possession OF mob. trains of the Hud-
son River road were stopped and hundreds of
women were in the depot at Thirtieth street un-
able to get TO their homes. The rioters threatened
to kill anyone who tried to move a wheel. An
engineer instantly volunteered, and said: II will
take that train up the river - On either side of
the road were men frenZied with rage and with
drink, ready for murder any desperate deed,
but they were awed by the calm courage of this
engineer that he was permitted to proceed. This
last summer, after 30 years OF service the Cen
tral. this engineer. Henry Millikin. ioined the
silent majority. His name stands among the un-
heralded heroes who are the pride and the glory
of our humanity.
Every difficulty must be solved upon its own
merits. 1t is just here that an intelligent labor
organization, composed only of the occupation
which seeks to secure right or redress a wrong,
can meet its employer upon grounds which will
show their N utual dependence and promote their
common benefit. Il Isl just here that ignorance or
incompetency on the one side produces irritation
and resistance on the other and capital loses Its
earnings and labor its wages. IProlonged ap-
plause.1
MIR. Carnegie was the next speaker. He said
that though he was only manufacturer, he
was always glad to be with railroad organiza-
tions, or telegraphers, because it was in that
service be got his first start in life, He was
near becoming a railroad man. but he reformed
in time. TLaughterl MIR. Carnegie referred to
the system OF paying men on the sliding scale
plan, and advocated it as the most Just that
could be adopted as between labor and capital.
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