The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-22
HANNA VS.. PARRY.
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With but one notable exception,
want also to publicly state that in the
/ experience Of the last two years. when
/ those methods have been pursued, there
/ has not been a failure-not one-not
failure Now, is it not encouraging,
after such success in two short years
IS It not encouraging TO all of those
VINO have this great interest at heart
to go on with this work. It is not
often that l have the opportunity or
I have had the opportunity to talk to an
association like this, but I have oppor-
I tunltes without numher-many more
/ than l can comply with-to talk before
the business men of the United States,
ana as far as my opportunities and
i strength permit / shall accept these in
vitations for the purpose Of talking to
the business men and employers of this
country, just as they ought to be talk
ed to.
For thirty years. as your POSTMASTER
has said, / have practiced what l
preached. It was in 1874, after terrible
strikes in the coal mines of the United
states Tuscarawas valley-and l was
only a representative of my employers
/ on the OCCASION made UP my mind
4 that there was better way to settle
labor troubles, and from that day until
] tonight it has been my constant
thought and effort to bring about such
a condition as would do away with such
disastrous trouble
There are many who criticise. many
unbel1eVerS and dOubters, as to the
fruition of this great question but nv
reply to them is that the men who at
long range criticise and doubt the flu
ture OF a settlement of this great ques-
tlon only demonstrate their ignorance.
They do not know the workings of it.
AS an evidence of that, with your
permission I want to allude to the re-
cent utterances of the president of an
organization known as the Manufac-
turers' association. l have nothing
! personal against Mr.. Parry I have the
highest respect for that organization
because know a great deal of its per
sonnet and l know that it is composed
of liberal. high minded men. I say that
tit is unfortunate that that question
should be considered in so public a
way, in SO drastic way, by one who
! from his own statement does not I'M
| derstand the question it is stated thus:
] Organized laber knows but one law
and that is the law of physical force
| the law of the Huns and Vandals the
laws of the savage All its purposes
are accomplished either by actual force
or by the threat of force
THAT is not true"
Reading: Once thoroughly alive to
the true nature of this unAmerican in
stitution of organized labor as a pres
ent conducted, the people, firmly be-
lieve, will place their stamp of disap-
prevail upon it and it will dwindle in
power faster than it grew
I'VE will see. In controverSiOn of
those statements am able to bear wit
ness to the fact that within the last two
the civic fedora ton it has been demon
strated this question in interest Of OF
ganized or unorganized labor has re-
ceived more thoughtful and careful
consideration from all classes Of Amer
lean people than ever before If / had
the time to recount in detail the diff
| culties that have been overcome and
| advancement that has been made in
the settlement of disputes in bringing
closer together the employer and the
employees. if 1 could state those facts
and ask the gentleman who makes these
statements what he had to say in re-
ply, furnishing proof, would fire him
out of court
III is true that today within my
knowledge the men who control the
greatest Industrial affairs-and / mean
by that term industrial affalgs every
thing that enters into our industrial de-
velopnlent the transportation and main
tenance-are satisfied that the efforts
being made are as much IN their IN
terest, are satisfied they have peen
totally unpre1udiced and are ready to
cooperate. ready to give up the preJu-
dices of the past and witnessing proofs
that have come from this effort stahd
ready today to extend the nand OF rel
IOwship and join in this movement, ana
/ honestly believe that the majority OF
that very organization stands exactly
in that position
toll in our factories calls for our most
earnest consideration. but what we
must protest against is the unwarTant-
able usurpation of rights and the dis
astrous industrial policy which cnarac-
terizes them in their present associated
THAT is unlxind. unldnd because it is
NOT true: unkind because It IS state
ment in direct opposition TO tne result result
accomplished OF course, II IS some
concession to admit that 1T IS emitted
to earnest consideration. but to say
that there is an unwarrantaDle usutpa-
ton of rights and disastrous nous nous
trial policy is absolutely not true: Ihefe
Is no part of business or industrial
transactiov.s in which everybody IS
agreed and satisfied. 1t is beyond the
power of human nature-we are an
selfsh-to expect that in every trans
action in every business of life there
should be an exact agreement
Just in proportion to mans amol-
ton. Just in proportion to his aplllty 10
earn for himself betterment OF con-
dition there win be a strife on his part
to attain it and just as far as that en-
croaches upon those on the other slds
of this question, who are working for
some object. there will be natural re-
sistance But there is always neutral
ground always neutral place, a heu-
fraz position where these great forces
can meet and at least consider the SIT
uation-
| these labor troubles and disturbances
many things l cannot eondone. 1t IS
l nerfectlv natural that in times ike
| these of unrivaled prosperity and of or
anization of new societies of labor, or
ganized for the same purpose, orgahl1eu
with the same desire to better their
condition, that unacduainted and mex
/ nerienced in the application of it. mis-
takes shall be made. cannot. nor do
| believe, that there is man WITHIN
! the sound of my voice who VIII eondone
any violation of the law. any interior
{ ence with personal rights of his neigh
{ Dor
: s1rhe gentleman fAIr- Parryl cites an
> example as to the lrresponslDihty OF or
eanizad labor. and repeats the argument
that in order to be dealt with on the
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