Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1903-07-17
UNIONS HAVE COwTO STAY
College President Who Defends
the Organization of Labor


In an address before the New Eng
land Society Of Scranton, Pa. Rev. Or
w. a. Suyker. president OF Hamil, Jn
college, said:
Unions of labor have come 10 stay.
Combination and community OF inter
est" are their inherent right also. They
are fact and n factor They must be
recognized. They are recognized even
In denying them recognition.
Fingers I'm ones ears is an ultimatum
hat two can play at. To hide under
the bedclothcs may comfort the child.
but will not stop the Thunderstorm
Even TO criminal the law does not
deny the right to choose his own attor-
ney. The credentials of any spokesman
are from. those who send him. not from
those TO whom he is sent. The principal
accredits his agent.
Organized capital speaks through It's
delegate. l abor has Hle same right. II
a given envoy is difficult. austere or Of
fensive, so much the worse for those
who commission him. Either party may
request different delegate, but to pre-
scribe how he shall be chosen or TO re-
fuse all is to break off diplomatic re.a.
tions. The right not to deal through self
sent meddlers does not modify the duty
to recognize those who are properly in
dorsed. Only faulty challenges the
right OF men to act and to speak col
lectively and by whom they will OBJ
viOusly 100000 workmen cannot state
their cause separately to ten executive
boards. The question. gentlemen. as to
Mr.. Baer. or as to Mr.. Mitchell, is not
whether he Is In the employ OF those to
whom he goes. but whether he is au-
thorized by those from whom he comes
The contention OF the operators that
they may dictate just how their men
shall approach them cannot hold its
ground before American common sense
and fair play. 1t VIII fall, 1t falls al
ready, for that public which does not
bubble knows that practically the
United Mine Workers as such and In
the person OF John Mitchell are before
the commission and the country. The
arbitrary precept issues SO far only In
mutual eXaSperations and furnishes the
prolific opportunities of marplots. any
genuine effort to agree must listen to
AS to the alleged nonresponsibility Of
the miners because they are not incor-
porated, remember that since they can
not be enjoined they cannot enjoin. II
IS, even further remember, that their
adhesion to their word given IS thriI
whole capital. They know that tht
country watches them In this to see Il
they be men. Under immense tempra.
ton they have this summer past kept
their word. 1t Ia much. Ii is enough
Incorporation may be wise device, but
II Is not the first and great command
ment
AS TO compulsory arbitration" VINO
wants II? 1t is contradiction In terms
The essence OF arbitration IL voluntary
consent to take advice. If It's obiter
dicta are cmicably accepted. 1t Is excel
lent. If 1t can compel. 1t is but new
court and we are where we started
Agreement and litigation are two oppo
site ways. lf arbitration could be com
Dulsory. II would be superduous.
PoLLED DURHAM COW DAISY III.
commonly handsome and snowy cow
she was also. as her picture indicates
an excellent milk COW. giving at times
twenty-four quarts of milk a day. L.
her best she weighed 1.4OO pounds and
was very easy keeper One of her
calves won first prize at tho Columbian
exposition In 1822