The sun., 1902-11-23
NO NEED OF THE COAL STRIKE.
BISHOP POTTER LIKENS IT TO
MAN TREADING on YOUR TOES.
He Says Two Parties would Not Understand
Each Other-Lawyers Delay solution
He Tells Of His Liking for Mtche'l
and OF His sympathy with Miners.

to the League for Political Education In
Mrs. Osborn's Playhouse about Industrial
Arbitration" He said that to solve labor
troubles the parties to the controversy
should get into sympathy. But the pro-
ceedings in Pennsylvania during the last
two weeks had shown that the introduction
Of counsel may embarrass the working out
of problem and indefinitely prolong 1t.
Bishop Potter said that when Ire was a
young man ne was interested In a case IN
which a wealthy woman had left much
property to a charitable institution and her
heirs were fighting the will. he asked
one of the Law yers In the case when he
thought settlement might be looked for
and whether the heirs or the institution
would eventually win.
THE lawyer looked at me. eaid Bishop
Potter, and said in all seriousness: The
fact il, that estates belong & TO the profession
He ,esn't live now, but eventually he
became a Judge. and. SO far as ! know.
was a good Judge
Arbitration has It's part In the industrial
life Of the country. he said where the reia-
tions between employer and employee may
become strained by mutual misapprehen-
sion. This is the case. he said, in the labor
trouble that has occupied the attention OF
the country for half year.
think violate no confidence he said.
when / say that at the first meeting OF the
Civic Federation 1t was made plain TO me
| that the two parties were determined not
| to understand each other. The laborers
| came to the conclusion that their employers
| had determined TO put the screws on them
| and the employers stood out for principle
that they regarded as Of prime importance,
| but which was only theory that the en-
| prvpe was trying to take from them the
| tr Of their own business.
| Il think that IL we, you and I, consent to
| deal in the products Of capitalistic COM
| bination we have no equity OF Judgment
II we don't agree to deal in the products
| Of a combination Of labor.
In the last century. even in august,
sanity, supreme New England, where
every one is noble and virtuous. In the
history of labor conditions since the Revo-
| luton caused by the introduction OF modern
machinery. not concession mas peeh
made to a factory worker that has not been
the result of outside pressure.
Referring to the impatient feeling OF
| the public when the price Of coal went up
he thought that the public was justihed
in its objections. -Supposing, he said,
that tread on your toes in street car
and neither apologized nor get on. lou
| look up at me and say. You great brute,
what do you mean by treading on my
the kind of feeling we have for a situation
that need not have occurred and for which
no apology has been made
Organized bodies OF labor are making
a mist AXE In trying to force men INTO the,r
violence and / hope that they will learn
that their crusade Is only OF value when
it is carried on along great moral lines.
He asked his hearers to notice q coinci-
n, denSe In In the he pending industrial are''ra-
Wayne Macveagh, with his wonderful
skill as a cross-exaniner, tried Tor Gays
with the keen rapier In his skilled pro-
| fessional hand to find some weak JOINT
and being unable to find any he went away.
Then came the testimony Of the doctors
who said that at the age OF 81. when men
should be at their prime, the miner who
tit only TO be taken to a hospital and die
He has contracted asthma from the air
he has breathed and diseases OF the lungs
| and eyes.
Bi shop Potter said that the testimony
taken in the arbitration proceedings has
shown that men hurt in the mines have been
carried away in ambulances wrapped IN
blankets that had never been sterliized
although those blankets had been wrapped
a., una smallpox patients and persons
, | am cltu Nltu OtHtI contagious N''orNc -
that sometimes the injured have contracted
these diseases from the contact with the
, | blankets. .
, These conditions will last he said
? until some one from below makes himself
! unpleasant and continues TO be unpleasant
until he arouses the outsider and forces
those derelict into the reformation Of their
, | methods. Here liz the place for the INDUS
= trial Arbitration 10 act, Tor the iaoorer mas
I neither the time nor the means
ntaka ,l.x,at 1NxAll ~
Of enforced arbitrator.
0 As far as | have been able to learn.
said he. no compulsory state court OF ar
= bitration has ever yet justified Its e1-
: istence." He pointed out that the success
: Of compuls )ry arbitration in New Zealand
is due to the homogenity OF the country
= and that conditions are not analogous
n in this large country. He suppts d that
: the voters plurality. either for or against
a the interests Of capital had its effect upon
. the arbitrator, who usually looks out fol-
r himself
sThe value OF arbitration" said Bishop
Potter, consists largely not so much IN i''
decisions AZ to great moral equities a.
in bringing the classes together.
'. He told Of the Board Of Mediation ant
Cancellation, of which he and DR.. Feli'
!. Adler and others Of this city were mem
bers. -We were a self-appointed body,
3 than you have AZ first had this boart
e meet in the See House in Lafayette place
J. I confess that 1t was modelled after tn
r. House Of Lords and il was beautiful place
l. We met there and IT was very uncom
. Portable. The laboring men wouldn't tall
10 and neither would the capitalists. W
o had brains and capital and labor. but W
2. did not get on. -,
- Finally I had them meet in my hbrar
It and the maid brought in coffee and tea an
"a I-don't be shocked passed around cigar
i, and everybody expressed his views f,ill
"a so that we all got at each others view