The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
CARPENTER TALKS
 WITH MIR. HANNA
Chat With the Senator on the Sidns of the Tine.r Regarding
 Labor end Capital.

tration. Sincs than the saue nr4n<s2S1 mas peen auopted in connection with ff<x' nauonal organization of the Unftsd 11I1~' workers. They combine with fhe o.,cr1 z sors. both meeting together orce q sy1Sf 70 TX scale, which ie in the natrro Sf en annual agreement. and forms IF scale Of wages for thattyear. Thie r,oiI1s has proved most satisfactory to ens,oi,S,. CTS and employes.'' !. -. z The Anthracite Coal TroublS4 But do the men keep such coutrncfr <.
 aes, replied Senator Hanna. sses,,6- ciatys in the old and we'll organixed .;1r' i. lonP. Take the case of the United r11le Workers during the great anthrs<I{~l strike of last year. You will rernerni,~;r the situation. One hundred and n7f5 thousand men were out of work. fhe IsmInes or many of them were on fI,s cage or starvation. tho mines were c1o1cf down. and the whole country was nj fhS throes yof coal famine Now. 1t ik E,f law or the United Mine Workers thaf x nve Of the different organizations com posing 1t demand n national conventjo,< it has to be called. Five did cali for lf including some organizations already in volved in the strilze.I i4s.
 As a result a thouss1d delexafes rn{,- resenung the vast army Of hitpminos,e coal miners met at Indianapoljs <rit1. John Mitchell as their president. Thcx had .a contract foi. the year .svffh. .f1se operators as to prices and wages ar,l3 sfn< question was whether they shoti{H f5rsst this and join in the sympathetfc stri54 70 help their brothers. the anthrcife mine CTS of Pennsylvania
 At that convention the awful cur,l2i. tion m the anthracite mines was ex- pIained. the terrible want and suffering s9t xortn and general strike defnanAed Had they granted the demand and broix. en their contract with the operators fhe@ would have inflicted incalcuable loss fn the United States Most of our islfsa~ tries would have come to a standsfin Within q shcrt time the coal on hasza would have been used and every facttrs1 would have had to shut down Hxersr car upon the railroad. except perhaxa zlz malls. would have had to stop and ooid and want would have dropped upos, < s. ma1oFtty of the homes of the umEf6d States -'sz; The public did not fully realizs 1t, ns,t the situation was a terrible one. Iohf Mitchell saw 1t and in connection viii, the other leaders of the United Mfna Workers brought forth the .santfnaff which prevented the strike. The arles- tion was referred to a committee of twenty-nine. who strove one ,vhole rfns,e as to it's settlement In the morning shev brought forth resolution which ~nN adopted by the conventiou. It waa thHf the United Mine Workers would stiek fs thsir contract but also that they wo,s}F give ten per cent of their wages sto .hs<s their brothers in their strike fn fhs as'. thracite mines of Pennsylvania
 @ Organized Labor Come to sGtnx. s
 How about sorEarised labor. 6enaio There is no doubt of it,% was the rss ply. Tt is a condition and ahould hs treated accordingly. The trades union lz not an original creation of the United States. It was imported from EnkIANsf It is now being Americanized, ana lt iM better in every way than the Eheiish union. It does not believe in the restrIe- ton of output and in the limitation of individual enfort"i
 continuous shortening of hours and a continual increase of wages. Can this ife on and our industries continue?' Such things regulate themselves, ,s sxa-. piled Senator Hanna. The novemeiske are perfectly natural ones. The capIfai- igt tries to get all he can out of his. SIase | of the business and so does the work man. With our enormous immigration and restricted supply of work there. .haye been replenty of laborers until within thn past three years and the capitalists have had the whip hand. They could fix the wages, and don't remember that they voluntarily raised them. Within the past three years, however, there have beer, two jobs for every man, The Iaborer has taken advantage of the situation and in creased his pay. and don't blame him.
 But will he not have to come down nov ,, that the times have changed
 Yes. in many places" s
 win he not striker
 1T don't. think so without there is gnnae other reason than the reduction owing to the hard times.'' Fl r Hanna as . Union Man.
 IT you were a working man. senator would you belong to a union?"
 Yes. I would: but would do all that could to bring about a closer relation between my union and my employer. The sooner the laboring man and the eFn- ploxer. come together the better for both laborer and employer"
 That is what the Civic Federation is trying to do. is it not?'
 That Is what the Civic Federation is doing, replied Senator Hanna We have settled a great many labor disputes and prevented many strikes by bringing the leaders of the union and the repret sentatives of employers together. Both are beginning to understand the other. The laboring men are becoming nQne
 
 ready to recognize labor organizations Strikes in most cases come from misin- defstandings, and some of the most Se- rious ones from trihing disagreeraents- The employer and the worlSingman stand face to face, each with a chip on his shoulder. The employer feels determined not to make an advance toward settle ment. and the workingman is too proud | to do 1t.
 Has the Civic Federation any special rules of action in such matters7"
 ''None except the golden rule" replipd Senator Hanna we do not believe ia sympathetic strikes. nor in the boycott nor in the restriction of production e enhance values" .-sss,.t,
 How about the man outside the unfon, senator? What are his rightsH"
 He has the right to work and exer- else his individual rights granted by the Constitution of the United States, and h0 should be protected in those rights.@
 The Poor Public.
 But, senator" said I, 'if labor and capital are to combine will not the puh- lic be ground between the upper and neither millstones of high wages and high pricesT''
 "The publicp' said Senator Hanna. What is the publIc7 In our country tt Is made up of capitalists and lahorers- With the exception of a very few every man in the United States Is an employer or an employe. We are all workingmen. Some of us work with our brains and the others with our hands, and the empleys CTS, as rule, work the hardest s.,s s
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