The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-11
LLOYD'S SUPERB SPEECH
He Speaks on the Cues ion Of Recognition o.
the Unions and Yearly Trade Agret-
ments---Addr sses by NC
Carthy and Brumm.
Saving of $1,000,
Saving of $1,000,
(By the Associated Press.)


/ for the next six days was begun today
when the miners, through Daniel j. Nc
: Carthy, of Hazelton, made the opening
argument Mr.. Mccarthy was followed
by former Congressman Brum, of Min
ersville, who made long argument and
Henry Demarest Lloyd, of Chicago, who
confined his efforts to the question OF
recognition of the unions and yearly trade
| agreements.
| The operators will begin their argu-
ment tomorrow, continuing three days
and closing with George f. Baer, presi-
dent of the Reading Company. Clarence
! S. barrow, of Chicago, the principal
counsel for the miners, Will take up all
of Friday and Saturday until adjourn
ment in summing up the case and in an
swering President Baer. President Mitch
ell, of the Miners Union, is expected
here during the week. Whether he VIII
address the commission depends upon de-
velopmCnts.
Among those in the court room was
President George F. Baer, of the Read
ing Company With the exception of the
opening day in Washington last October
it is his only visit to the commissions
hearings so far. AS soon as the near
ing opened Mr.. Mccarthy began his ar
gument. He made a strong plea for a
twenty per cent increase of miners
wages, saying the occupation was
hazardous one, requiring the expenditure
of a great deal of energy. He closed with
q glowing culogy of John Mitchell.
The subjects of the weighing OF coal,
condition of the union, and the status
of non-unon men were all eXhaustiFeiy
handled by Mr.. Mccarthy.
Mr. Mccarthy spoke for three hours
He was followed by Henry Demarest
Lloyd, of Chicago. Mr.. Lloyd made an
elaborate argument for the trade be-
tween employer and employees, citing the
conditions prevailing in the bitumnious
field, where new scale OF wages hau
Just been agreed upon.
Continuing Mr.. Lloyd said:
"There has been no mine strike of any
Importance since these relations of ne
rotiations and arbitration were estab-
lished where the arrangement prevailed
but there have been very serious strikes
elsewhere.
"The trade agreement need not and
does not interfere with the employment
of non union men. The mine workers
of America have never gone on a strike
against the employment of non union
men. The easiest objection Of all to
meet is that a monopoly of labor would
be created by recognizing the union.
There can be no monopoly if non union
men as we'll as union men are allowed TO
work side by side. Your award, by INK
ing the terms of employment, Will re-
move the special cause of anger ard
enmity. 1t is not the non union man,
the unionist fears, but the scab' the
breaker of trade who lives by getting odd
Jobs of industrial assassination at hl5h
wages and loafs between whites on the
DRY that it is better to have loafed and
lost than never to have loafed at all
"The trade agreement has put an end
to sympathetic strikes, and has created
in their place the novel institution of
sympathetic arbitration. When the
masters in both make contracts with
other capitalists they insist on full no.
tce, representation, consideration, ana
they never dream of being allowed 10
manage moro than their side Of the bar
gain They will insist on all this for
themselves, face about and make ar
rangements with the miner in winch
they refuse him every right of negotia-
ton or representation they claim for
Z themselves.
"The strike of last summer was the
Waterloo of capitalistic absolutism in
this country Organized labor never did
! civilization a greater service than when
! it whipped this master to a finish and
settled, let it be hoped, for the third and
last time in America, that the only bust
ness in which there is one master is
nd hot in business th2rp
are as many masters as there are part
| les"
| During Mr.. Lloyds argument, Chairman
Gray Interrupted him with this question:
What have you to say regarding the
non union men who prefer to continue
at work through the strike, in the ex-
ercise of the right that they suppose
they have, those who are not strike
| breakers and do not loaf between times.
''Of course, in doing that" Mr.. Lloyd
replied "They are strictly within their
/ legal rights. but to me they seem to
violate moral duty of the highest
sanctity, which is that man must DO
what he can to help along a necessary
struggle for the elevation or his own
class and of society at large.
| Are such men protected by the
union?"
The union certainly withdraws no
! legal protection from them, sald MI
Lloyd. They are not protected by the
union from being visited with the ooloquy
which properly falls upon man VINO -
not joined in a common ehorC ioI the
common good. | should class TINS man
| precisely with the loyalists in the Amer
! lean revolution. | characterize ths
strike as an industrial war, as dh Ii
| cident in d great uprising.
| In reply the chairman SAID:
I'm our theory there is only one war
making power and that is the great union
represented by the government Oh So0le'y'
and they tolerate no wars-strlctly wal 3
inside of their influence or sphere we
may. for the sake of rhetoric or analogy
speak of war, but there can pe no "dl
tolerated, in the proper sense, Wl'hin any
peaceful community, governed by law