Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-01-15


fused to help it.
Another false sentiment that had
currency in the peace conference was
that capitalists invest their wealth to
help labor. A man needn't be put down
as the enemy of all rich men simply be-
cause he refuses to take any stock in
that piece of arrant nonsense. Bus-
ness men, from the blacksmith with
one helper to the employer of thou
sands of workingmen, know that it is
nonsense. Men invest their capital for
the purpose of adding to it. If they
fail to make fair profit, they get
their money out as quickly as they can.
If they can't get out. they shut up
shop unless it costs them more to shut
up than to keep open. There are kind
hearted employers-a few-who sym
pathize with the workmen they are
obliged to throw out of work, but char
lty begins at home, and business Is
business" That is the motto of the
commercial age in which we live, and
the intelligent workingman knows it
and lives up to it, in his small way,
just as the employer does.
And what was the result of the labor
peace conference? you ask. Well, sirs,
after 'the public" and the nonpublic
had dragged the old pool into which so
many wise men have fallen head first
they raised their tongs and cried out:
Here's your oyster! Come and open
it, And they proceeded to open it
right there. In fact, they opened three
dozen, but l can't say they served them
on the half shell raw. Some of them
have been on the iron and in these
same stews before.
A committee of thirty-six was ap-
pointed by the conference. Twelve
were selected from the capitalists,
twelve from the labor representatives
and twelve from the whole of creation.
otherwise 'the public" Following are
the names of the thirty-six gentlemen
who have undertaken the biggest con-
tract on record the job of keeping la
Dor from striking and inducing employ
ers to treat their employees as broth
ers:
REPRESENTATIVE EMPLOYERS.
Senator Marcus A. Hanna, Cleveland.
Charles NJ. Schwab, president United States
Steel corporation
S. r.. Caaway, American Locomotive works
Charles Moore, president National Tool COM
pany
j. d. Rockefeller Jr.
II. II. Vreeland, Metropolitan Street Railway
company
Lewis Nixon, Crescent shipyard, Elizabethport,
N. ].
James A. Chambers, president American Glass
company Pittsburg
william H. Pfahler, president National Associa.
tion Stove Manufacturers, Philadelphia
E. p. Ripley, president Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railway.
Marcus NJ Marks, president National Associa-
tion Clothing Manufacturers.
j. Kruttschnitt, president Southern Pacific Rail-
way company.
REPRESENTATIVES OF ORGANIZED LABOR.
Samuel Gompers president American Federation
Of Labor
John Mitchell, president United Mine Workers.
f. r. Sargent, grand master Brotherhood of Lo-
comotiye Frcmen.
T. j. Shaifer, president Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
James Duncan, secretary Granite Cutters asso-
citation.
Daniel J. Keefc, president International Associa-
tion Of Longshoremen.
Martin Fox, president National Iron Molders'
union.
James E, Lynch, president international Typo
graphical union.
Edward +. Clarke, grand conductor brotherhood
OF Railway Conductors.
Henry White, secretary Garment Workers of
America.
Walter Macarthur, editor of The Coast seaman's
journal, San Francisco
James O'Conncl president International Asso-
citation OF Machinists.
Al u on,
Grover Cleveland.
Cornelius n Bliss
Charles Francis Adams.
Archbishop John Ireland.
Bishop Henry C. Potter.
Charles W. Eliot, president Harvard university.
Franklin MacNeagh, Chicago.
James II. ECkels.
John j. McCook.
John G. Milburn, Buffalo.
Charles j. Bonaparte, Baltimore,
Oscars. S,raus, New York.
1t is not worth while to criticise the
personnel Of the committee. Probably
the only fellow hat has any kick COM
ing is the public" and he be - What
was it Vanderbilt once said? The
employers and organized labor are well
represented in the committeeman
chosen, though it may occasion some
question to note that the largest wing
of the wageworzing army is practical
ly ignored, the building trades. Dun
can of the granite cutters doesn't fill
the bill under that head, though he is
an able and representative labor man.
However, Mr.. Straus, who appointed
the members of the committee, isn't
supposed to know about the labor or
ganizations. Peace, with a big p, is
his long suit.
The committee is to act as board
of concilstion and arbitration. 1t is to
bring the labor representatives and the
employees together for the adjustment
of difficulties that may arise as to
wages and conditions of employment
and to effect settlements without re-
course to strikes or lockouts. All friends
of labor wish it might succeed.
If | may be allowed to offer some
thing for the good of the cause, l
would like to suggest that, inasmuch
as the arrangement is made between
employers and organized labor, Charles
NJ Schwab and other employers Of