The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
His own Experiences in Strikes Re-
lated and Cancellation Urged as N
Means of Settling Disputes.
ANTHRACITE CASE HOPELESS
BECAUSE BOTH SIDES MUST FIRST
CONSENT TO ARBITRATION.
Agreement Between Bituminous
Miners and Operators Pointed Ont
as u Way of Avoiding Strikes.

| Hanna addressed the Urbana Chautauqua
to-day the topic, Labor and its Rela-
ton to Capital" The senator was met at
| Springfield. o., by a large escort made up
of prominent citizens Of Urbana and Spring
field and President George w. Hit, of the
| Chautauqua Association, and taken by spe-
| cial trolley into the camp grounds near
! Urbana. An audience of nearly 5000 greet
| ed him at the tabernacle when he arose
| TO speak. The senator was introduced by
Col w. r. Warnock member of Congress
| from this district. He was first given the
| Chautauqua salute-a waving Of handker-
chiefs-and then by hearty applause. His
address was frequently and vigorously ap-
plauded 1t was purely eXtempOraneOus
and was largely devoted TO an explanation
of the origin, aims and accomplishments of
the Civic Federation, of which Senator
Hanna is the president. Senator Hanna
said in part
II feel like beginning my address by
| apologizins for having the temerity to ad-
dress a Chautauqua circle. l told some of
my friends that to take up one who was a
| politician, who is accustomed to barn
storming in politics. and ask him to address
an audience like this seemed a bit OF cor
pOral punishment. And the next thing, l
will be invited to fill some vacant pulpit
occasionally. [Laughter.l That welcome,
my friends, disposes of all temerity and
makes me feel perfectly at home with you.
The subject which has been announced is
not a new one in this country nor the world
over. 1t has grown in Importance as our
country has developed; it has grown in
favor our country has become educated,
and it is growing in Importance every day.
We now witness an object lesson which
tells us that something must be done.
MY friends Judge Warnock has told you
that in my business life l had been con-
nected with industries employing a large
number of men. That is true. From the
miner under the ground to the man that
works in nearly every vocation in life in
our industries L have had to do. Thirty
years ago | was a witness and participated
in one of the most serious strikes that ever
occurred in Ohio. 1t the miners strike
OF the TuScaraWaS valley. After it had
been settled after property had been de-
stroyed and blood shed, there came time
TO think 1t over and L made up my mind
that there was a better way to settle such
disputes than that. And from that hour
until this it has been the thought and
theme uppermost in my mind. And as
years of experience have passed and
have noticed and studied every feature of
the question, every trait of character,
every question that moves men, I have been
formed in the opinion that it was possible
TO settle disputes in different way. [Great
applause
ECONOMIC AND MORAL.
ut is not a political question. but an
economic one. 1t is that and more 1t is
a moral one The best way to reach mems
minds and mems hearts is to appeal first
to the heart and then reason with the mind
Who knows better the great good that can
be accomplished through education? And
it is that work that am devoted to per-
sonally. 1t is to that work that l want
to enlist the sympathies of all such people
as sit before me, and with Gods blessing
may ii spread through every circle in the
land. If / can enlist sympathy and CO.
operation of the good women and men who
unite for weeks in every year i'm a combined
effort first to learn how to do il and ther
y | TO do 1T every day and in every action OF
your lives, then l will feel that the slight
effort that / have made that the work sc
begun will never be abandoned until the
| millennium comes"
The senator then spoke of the National
| Civic Federation, of its origin and its work
a | He said the object of the organization i:
to better the conditions of labor to brins
them in closer contact with capital and Il
possible by effort and education to make i
impossible to have strikes. Continuing ht
said In every instance but one in a ter
months life we have settled every labor
difficulty that has come to us. This one in
Z ! stance where the organization failed wa.
= | the anthracite coal strike. / admit tina
a., the Civic Federation has failed in its eff
forts there. 1t is hard to conciliate, it il
Y hard TO arbitrate question when only on,
T | side will consider it. But in that cOnnec
ton 1 want to call your attention to an
other incident in my efforts in that strik
r and others.
!, when appealing to the employers to con
slider some things in connection with tn
Il situation that l did not think they full!
Il appreciated or understood | told Of the eX
O perience Of myself and associates recent,
: in connection with the coal mining of west
= ern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Hi
e nois / have said that I thought there i
: a better way to settle differences, and afte
= twenty years of experience the operator
controlling the mines of the States men
o toned have found better way.
e THE INTERSTATE AGREEMENT
after days and nights of negotiation
:; four years ago we organized what wa
4 termed the Interstate Association com
Is posed of the operatives and operators O
y the coal mines of these States. We agree
:, upon a scale of wages, flexible enough L
d adapt itself to different physical conditions
d That scale once agreed upon, all that becam
s. necessary was to fix the basis price. Tha
. was four years ago. The contract wa
3. made. The operators went into market an
n sold their coal and the coal miners abide
IS by their contracts and delivered it. Tn
a next year it was renewed by a horizonta
y advance OF price, the next yea
d it was renewed, and then last yea
is it was renewed. Peace and harmony
IF good and successful business operation
IS have succeeded that policy. In using tina
ID argument with others il was said TO me
lie Why, what is your contract worth with
l. labor organization? If il don't want {
lie keep ii, ii won't and you can't make it
Is That is true, but when that remark cal
ried with it the insinuation that men {
N that class had no honor in carrying out
e contract, 1 want to say that / deny it, an
Or now l have the proof.
" THE ANTHRACITE STRIKE.
10 1.-THE prolonged strike in the anthracit
v country has brought about a condition tina
IS is alarming not only to the peaC
- of society, but to the material il
rs terests of the people. There is
ne the constitution of the United Mir
n Workers of America a provision ths
s. If five districts make application of III
"a president he shall call together CONVEX
p ton and settle that question. Arbitratio
Of had been unsuccessfully tried, when me
c. became desperate from their situation
when they saw hunger and starvation b'
ed for them, il not natural that the
Of would be desperate? They then resolved
ed call that national convention and five d
ne visions asked the president 10 call il. tt
ly object to decide the question wheth,
IS, the bituminous men belonging TO that o
Mt ganization would go out and strike in syn
I'd pathy. Those Of you who may De familis
with the great railroad and industrial II
no terests OF this country can appreciate VIII.
in that meant. 1t would stop the wheels
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