The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-10
provided one should be representative of

provided one should be representative Of
labor and the other should be a represent
ative of capital and an employer of la
bor. 1t said in effect that anybody VINO
makes political capital out of the sweat
and blood of labor is an enemy of his coun-
try and of his kind. 1t took the labor COM
mission out of politics. 1t provided that
the judge of the Circuit Court can sit at
the head of the commission, and two other
commissioners may be appointed, making
a body of five men, so that when differences
are submitted to this board the judge of the
Circuit Court may issue the proper order,
and enforce his order by proceedings Pr Il in
1.-THE people of Indiana are to be congrat-
ulated that there has yet been no resort
to the last method-the submission of the
questions to the judge of the Circuit Court,
within the last five years, In this State.
This Board of Arbitration has gone about
settling differences between labor and cap.
ital, not only in the coal mines, but
throughout the State.
There is to-day not a single striking
miner in Indiana. This Board of Arbitra-
tion has gone up and down the State and
through their endeavors more than 10000
men have gone back to work, who had eth
er gone out a strike or were on the
point of striking.
1--WE did not stop here. We passed the
child labor law. The Republican party said
that no boy under fourteen nor girl under
sixteen should go into a mine in this state;
that childhood should have a green back
ground and not be driven into the dark re-
cesses of the earth.
THE Republican party of Indiana has
thrown around the miner the protecting
shield of the law. Annually through the
efficiency of this legislation, every line of
which is the product of Republican legisla-
lures, the miner and the operal2r. not only
of Indiana, but of the entire soft coal dis
meet and make contracts like men, each
with the other and, like men, they keep
their contracts for the ensuing year.
There are three parties interested in the
agreement-the miner the operator and the
public. All three have profited not only by
the Indiana legislation, but by the annual
meetings of the operator and the miner
and the settlement of their differences by
contract. No one would wish to go back
to the old system. Neither the operator
nor the public. nor the miner can per-
manently prosper at the expense of the
other.
Let the anthracite coal miner and the
anthracite operator take the public into ac-
count in Pennsylvania. Let the operator
there. the operator here. meet his men
on the level. Let the operator there as he
does here, contract for the years product.
called to-day and the Indiana method was
adopted in that State the strike in my
judgment, would cease.
Public sentiment should demand there,
as 1t demanded here, that the miner should
have his share of the prosperity which we
all enjoy. Let those who administer the
affairs of state there, as those who admin
istered the affairs of state here aid in that
demand. Let the demand be made effective
by legislation, as we did here.
Our system has come and has come to
stay, and from IT we will not recede: and if
in the anthracite field the operator refuses
to obey the mandate Of the law give the
courts power to enforce its mandates, as
we gave the courts here power to enforce
the mandate Of the commission, and the
strike will have ended.
I'VE have a President of the United
States who has the courage and the con-
science to do his duty. and we may rest
has met every question. state and national.
and has solved them. and solved them
rightly. 1t will grasp this question and will
solve 1t. and solve Ii rightly for the Re-
has the courage and ability to solve these
problems rightly"