The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-11-26
and capital, and quotes from bis recent

and capital, and quotes from bis recent
speech in Boston as follows
Many persons think that 90 about
causing strife and strikes. while these
are the things with which | wish TO do
away with bringing capital and labor to-
gether. hope the day will come when
agreements will abolish strikes and
lockouts and this will be only when
both sides understand one another"
No one for moment the Pilot least
Of all-doubts that both Gompers and
Mitchell are able men. able leaders and
fully alive to the criticalness Of the
times as regards not only labor but
everything with which labor has to do.
No one doubts for moment that each
is rapt up heart and soul in the move
ment toward the complete unionization
of all labor throughout the country, and
no one has thought but that each be
lieves that by this unionization capital
and labor will in time 40 understand
each other that there will be no more
need for strikes
But the country at large, the great
body Of people who are both laborers
and capitalists and therefore belong to
neither class exclusively upon whom all
the real burden Of every increase in
price or wage is bound TO come. this
l. L. l., -, e. laniAaH
whole hearted expression from either
Mr.. Gompeis or Mr.. Mitchell as to
whether violence and intimidation
murder and brutality shall or shall not
continue TO be characteristic Of union
methods Both have repeatedly eI
pressed the hope that capita and labor
may, so to speak get together per
manentlv, but neither has shown any
strong repuguance TO the rece mt proven
brutality to the wives and children Of
non union miners in Pennsylvania or to
the more recent smashing Of car win
dows, etc, in Chicago. Neither can be
accused perhaps Of endeavoring TO TO-
ment discord between employers and
employees but-and we say 1T with re
gret-neither can be credited with hay
ing taken any decided public stand
against lawlessness In the enforcement
OF labor s demand
The American public is patient and
long suffering 1t is willing to take a
man largely or faith If he shows the
least disposition to deal fairly II is
willing 10 give every man and every
class Of men a chance And somehow
or other it is willing to stand the ex
pense But certainly those who pre-
tend to be working first and foremost
for the public good should be expected
10 deal in something more than mere
plattudes in public crisis. Violence
wrong and they are being almost con.
stantly carried on ~ unions spring up
and IA strikes increase they have in
fact been almost intellectually associated
in the public mind with unions and
and with strikes. Is the public to
judge from the negative stand taken by
Messrs Gompers and Mitchell on the
subject that these gentlemen are on the |
whole rather partial TO this way Of pro
noting the cause Of good feeling be
tween capital and labor
1t il perhaps true that large part Of
the disorder and savagery consequent
on a big strike must be laid TO the door |
of ignorant and brutal foreigners whose
sudden taste Of freedom has aroused in |
thema latent appetite for unbridled |
license But is IL not also true that q |
firm unmistakable and uuhinchng |
stand taken by such men as Mitchell |
and GOmpers against the least sem
blance Of what is so instinctively re,
pugnant TO the decent American citizen
would soon put an end TO such scenes AZ
have OF late made almost the very
name Of trades unionism hateful? II is
certainly rather stretching a point to |
hold either leader up As u pescemaker !
or prevention Of brois until he has
taken just such stand