The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-12
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paraded IN large numbers today.
the success of the parade being assured
when the rain which had been falling
since early morning ceased about 10
o'clock. The turnout was one of the
largest that has ever been seen in St.
Paul on similar occasion. In the aft
ernoon a picnic was held at Harriet
island where games, exercises of var
lous kinds and public speaking were on
the program.
The principal speaker on the occasion
was Archbishop Ireland, who delivered
an eloquent adrdess.
In his address Archbishop Ireland
spoke in part as follows:
Capital is stored labor; the fruit and
result of labor. It's rights must be re-
spected
AS private property it is sacred. It is
| necessary to labor. A country without
capital is impoverished Labor should
invite it into use; never frighten it
away by making it unsafe or depriving
1T Of reasonable profits. These profits
are to be measured by it's value to
labor, by the intelligence and work
stored up in it.
On the other hand capital must re-
spect the manhood Of the wage Garner,
and allow him, as far as it can, with
out loss to itself, fair wage. Extrav-
agant and needless expenditures by
capitalists do harm in irritating the
| poor and should be avoided. A gener-
| Gus use of capital for public good,
whether in purely benefcent or in in
dustrial enterprises does much to soften
of
We should not be afraid of CAPITAL in
| whatever form it comes, whether in
large personal accumulation, or in
trusts or syndicates. Names are buga-
boos that Should not brighten u.s. AS
matter Of fact without large aggrega-
tons of capital great enterprises are
not possible and the country is not de-
veloped. 1t is time enough ito hold the
hand against trusts and syndicates
when they do harm. If they are known
to do harm the country will attend to
them. If they do no harm, and on the
! contrary do good, they should be well
coined.
The wage Garner has his rights-his
right to a living wage; his right to rea-
sonable hours; his right to more than
! even a living wage when circumstances
and success warrant it.
wage earners have right to COM
| blne, to form trusts and syndicates and
| call them labor unions.
Labor guilds were common in the
| middle ages and did good. The de-
| struction of them produced that hateful
lndividualism commended by Adam
! Smith and the Lancastrian school of
economy, which would reduce the la
borer to mere clod or piece of ma
ch1nery. Labor unions have given
! wage earners the consciousness to their
rights and have done much to obtain
higher wages and shorter hours. But
labor unions must be on their guard
against serious evils threatening them.
They cannot be tolerated if they inter-
tere with the personal liberty of nom
union men who have a right to- work
IN or outside unions as they please. ="
Public opinion and public law will
and must protect this liberty. 1t would
De social chaos If we were to impose
our opinions oil others by force. What
right have I to impose my religious
belief by force? What right have labor
unions to impose their opinions bv
1orce? 1t is wrong in labor unions to
limit the output Of work on the part OF
members. The members themselves
are injured they are reduced to a dead
1eVel OF 1nteriority. They are allowed
no opportunity Of rising to a higher or
better position. ~
society Is injured as it is injured nv
anything that prevents it's members
from putting out their talents to has,
advantage. '
Inc function Of law in regard IN
capltal and labor is to protect the ma
tural rights of both capitalist and wage
garner TO care for the weaklines and
the unfortunate. Never should it 60
! 50 lar as to destroy or limit personal
enterprise and personal liberty.
| state socialism allowable in things
! winch cannot be done by individuals is
most hurtful when it goes beyond
bounds. The prosperity of America ia
due to individual effort. State social
ism is utterly abhorrent to American
institutions and American ideas.
| The best friend of labor is the friend
Of Christ. Labor's first redemntion
came through Christ and His church
The church is the preacher of eternal
justice without the living PRINCIPLES Of
! "AAASAA oo>ASSJ "ouIN NC DIS d. mere nerd
of cattle, in which the physically
strongest would be king.
The deadliest enemy of labor is that
form of socialism which would close
out from men God and His Christ. the
church and it's heaven.
I do not deny the theoretical right of
the wage Garner to strikes as a. remedy
for what they believe to be Injustice.
But practically strikes do most harm
to the strikers themselves. Men are
left whole seasons without work, with
out pay. The public in presence Of
strikes is turned against labor unions.
Without entering for the moment into
the examination of the rights and
wrongs Of existing strikes, I may saw
nothing has arisen for long time in
the country which has done more harm
in the public estimation of labor unions
than the condition prevalent at the
present in our large cities.
Building operations have been sus-
pended for months. the whole prosner-