The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-25
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II. IS HOPED FOR
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ested in industry because consumption is
the root of all productions; because the
captain or industry is, indirectly, the
agent or society, and because the work.
ing mans standard Of living determines
the character of our civilization; and the
public may be compelled to assume certain
industries for the satisfaction Of human
wants, AS capital and labor are depend
ent upon the public for their rewards, the
public has the right to control the condi-
lions under which these rewards may be
sought"
Roast for President Baer. .:
Referring to conditions in the anthracite
coal fields, DR.. Zueblin became very en-
phatic. THE leader of the anthracite
operators" said he, "proclaims himself the
chosen of; God. The impudence of this
olasphemous and Inefficient representative
repuke We're 1t not that the great natural
resources of America and the tradition
that there is always enough and a super
abundance for all prevents proper apDre-
clat1on of the attitude of anarchists who
nave peen granted by society the privilege
or owning the anthracite coal beds. The
right OF eminent domain, the necessities or
convenience of the public, will ultimately
connrm what is already embodied in the
constitution and the statute books-that
the captain of industry Is indirectly the
agent Of society,"" !
professor Iueblin argued that labor or
CARNATIONS operated to raise the working
mans standard of living, and hence are of
vast benefit to society at large, as the
welfare of the state rests upon good citi-
zenship.
Coming to the problem Of government
ownership of public utilities Professor
Zueblin said such step would provide
tor the coming generation and thus full
I'LL the community's law Of life. He re-
garded the most serious difficulty in pri-
Vate ownership, the fact that the individ-
ual in possession has no incentive to make
provisions for posterity. "Franchises,"
said he, which exetnd beyond one gem
GRAFTON are utterly indefensible. There
is an abundance of experience to prove
that the life of one generation is long
enough to provide adequate remunera ton
for such Investments, and the numerous
injust1ces worked by any greater extern
sion of such franchises furnish sufficient
evidence in favor of short franchises and
subsequent public ownership
McEwen Looks Ahead.
w. e. McEwen, secretary treasurer of
the Minnesota Federation of Labor spoke
of the Future Relations'o of Labor to Cap
ital." He said that an exposition of his
ideas along the line of his subject would
Of course, be largely theoretically; but ex-
pressed the opinion that labor leaders gen.
orally, and labor organizations with them,
were becoming less and less visionary.
He said that the object of organization
was twofold: First, to secure immediate
returns, and, second, ito do something
for posterity. He argued that both labor
organizations and trusts were natural out
groWths Of modern conditions, and added
that any effort to destroy them would
prove futile and reactiOnary.
More or less friction between capital
and labor, he thought, would be inevita-
BILE until some plan was adopted for bring
ing the trusts and labor 'organizat tons to-
gether; and in the holding Of such con-
vention as that of the employers and
employees, he foresaW5: the beginning of
such a plan. ~ '' ia ~.
There is little hope, he said, ''of re-
turning to the days Of Keen competi-
ton and the small industry as the factor
in our commercial Iife.' @aIabor he de-
fined as the active Source of productions;
capital, as accumulated labor.
''In healthy economic condition of at
fairs said he, ''these5t forms of labor
must come together and help each other;
otherwise both must languish and die.
There has been, much folly in antagonism
of labor and capital, which can only result
in mutual injuriesS' :7er =. .,. ....ir
From the "Claim Departments of, large
corporations Mr. McEwen got the idea
that. an industrial department of similar
character, designed to- consider and deal
with the difficulties between laborers and
their employers, might do much toward
obviating strikes, although he readily adj
nnitted that such an institution would not
be a cure all. He expressed the opinion
that conditions are steadily improving,
and that some satisfactory solution of the
difficulties now existing will be discovered
and employed. -
The convention closed with "discus-
sion meeting,' in the Exposition building
this afternoon. ) q ~ -.