Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-07
Address Largely Devoted to tx
planning Civic Federation
THE QUESTION OF STRIKES.
"a. declares That his Not Poi''ica''
nut Rather an Economical ana
Moral One.

rrbaua. O., Aug. Ex-senator Hah"a
saarsssed the Urbana chatauqua TO-
Sov on the topic, Labor and Its Rela-
.,or TO Capital" The address was
largely devoted to an explanation Oh
,he civic Federation, Of which Senator
Wanna is the president. Senator Han
ma said, In part
oMy friend, Judge Wanrek mas told
,.or That in my business life | had been
connected with industries employing
largo number Of men. That is true
r.om the miner under the ground to
.he men who work In nearly every Vo-
sa,lon In business In our industries. l
have 10 uo ma, ,,,i,nass
Ia participated in one Of the most
a strikes that ever occurred In
0hio II was the miners strike Of the
Trscarawas valley. After II had been
Ia,,led after property had been de-
sStroyed and blood shed, there came q
. s,r,e to think Il over, and | made W
a,r mind that there was better way
~ ~ settle disputes than that, and from
mai hour until this II has been my
,bought and theme uppermost IN my
mind and as years Of experience have
nassed and have noticed and studied
avery feature OF the question that
moves men, ! have been forming the
oplnIOn that II was possible to settle
disputes In a different way
III is not a political question, but an
economic one. 1t Is that and more: II
4 moral one. The best way to reach
mems minds and mems hearts is TO
anneal first to the heart and then rea-
son with the mind. Who knows better
The great good that can be accom-
nllshed through education? And 1t is
tboi work that | am devoted to per.
sonally II Is to that work ! want to
enlist the sympathy of all such people
as SIT before me and, with Gods bless
ing may 1t spread through every cli
ole in the land. If can enlist the sym.
pathy and cooperation of the good
women and men who unite for weeks
IN every year In combined effort. first
10 learn how to do II, and then to do
h, every day and in every action OF
your lives then | will feel that the
work so begun will never be abandoned
until the millennium comes"
The senator then spoke Of the Ma
iIonal Civic Federation, Of It's origin
and It's work. He said the object OF
Inc organization Is to better the con.
dlton Of labor to bring labor In closer
contact with capital and, II possible,
BIZ effort and education to make 1t inn
possible to have strikes. Continuing,
he said
IN every instance but one, in a ten
months life, we have settled every Ia
Dor 1ihiculty that has come TO us, This
one Instance whore the organization
failed was the anthracite coal strike, |
admit that the Civic Federation has
failed In its efforts there. 1t is hard to
conclllate, II Is hard 10 arbitrate q
question on any side We consider II.
But in that connection | want TO call
your attention TO another incident In
my efforts In that strike and others,
'When appealing 10 the employers to
consider some things in connection
with the situation. did not think they
fully appreciated or understood. / told
pi the experience Of myself and asso-
tates recently in the coal.minng re.
lons Of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
alu iilluiSs liiNt saw liai hhOhhhN
there Is a better way to settle differ. |
,nces, and after 20 years Of experience
he operators controlling the mines OF |
he states mentioned have found a bet
Ter way.
after days and nights Of negotla-
tons, four years ago, we organized |
what was termed the Interstate asso' |
citation, composed Of operatives and OPP |
orators Of the coal mines of the states |
We agreed upon a scale OF wages fleXi- |
BE enough 10 adapt itself to different |
physical conditions. That scale once |
agreed upon all that became necessary |
vas 10 ind basis prices. That was four |
years ago. The contract was made. |
The operators went into the market |
and sold their coal. and the coal min |
ers abided by their contracts and de- |
lyered Il. The next year 1t was re- |
newed by a horizontal advance Of |
price; the next year II was renewed, |
Ind then last year II was renewed. |
Peace and harmony, good and success
tul business operations have succeeded |
That policy
In using that argument with others |
L was said to me, Why, what is your |
contract worth with a labor organiSa-
TOM II II don't want TO keep IT, It |
Won't and you cannot make It, That |
Is true; but when that remark car
Iied with ii the insinuation that men
o that class had no honor in carry
lihg out a contract, / want 20 say that
Deny It, and now | have the proof. 1
The prolonged strike in the anthra-
cle country has brought about a con- /
olllon that is alarming not only to the |
Leaee Of society but to the material /
interests Of our people.
.. There is In the constitution OF the |
tnlied Mine Workers OF America
provision that II FIVE divisions Of the
organization make an application to
lhe president, he shall call together in
convention delegates Of the organiga-
uon and settle the question When
very other means has been unsuccess-
Iully tried; when men became desper-
ave from their situation; when they
%W hunger and starvation before
mem was II not natural that they
would be desperate? They then re-
plye1 TO call that national convention.
,nu I'VE divisions asked the president
=" eau IT, The object was to decide the