The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-07
ARBITRATION
BOARD FAVORED
Bishop SpaIding Speaks in
Favor of the Foss Bill.
STRIKES ARE DEmORALlzING
CAPITAL AND LABOR SITUATION
NOT IMPROVING.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Bishop
wv Spalding Of Peoria. a member Of
the anthracite coal strike COM
mission, today urged the plan of arbi-
tration contained in the Foss bill, be-
fore the house committee on labor
The bill provides for a permanent
board OF arbitration to which shall
De referred disputes between labor and
capital. Volney w. Foster briefly con-
Guided his remarks begun at the last
nearing OF the bill. Mr.. Foster took
president Gompers of the American
Federation Of Labor TO task for op-
posing the bill. He quoted Mr.. Com
pers as favoring arbitration in
speech before the Civic Federation in
New York in December, 1901, and then
referred to Mr.. Gompers' statement be-
Iore the committee at the last meet
ing to the effect that strikes are a
good thing.
John Mitchell, of the coal miners,
and James Duncan, first vice presi-
dent OF the American Federation of
Labor, were quoted in favor of ar
Dltration in their public utterances.
The latter statement of Mr.. Com
pers, and also of Daniel Davenport.
representing the Anti-Boycott associ-
alton, In favor of strikes and lock-
outs, Mr. Foster believed. were in
spree IN the first instance by the per-
sonar interests of the gentlemen MAX
ing them.
"The Strike is He'll
Answering questions by Acting Chair
man Nreeland, Bishop Spalding said
II was not his opinion that the pro
posed tribunal would ever be called
upon 10 determine the question of
what IS a legitimate profit for the in
al
would be to settle disputes as TO hours.
treatment and pay of employees by the
empower A fair wage, he said. was
demanded in the soft coal mines of
the west by the conditions in the mines
ana the cost of living. Where a bust
ness did not permit of a living wage
according 10 the American standard
Vi hSlhg' mat business ought to close
up. declared the bishop.
I would saw" he continued asas
sherman said of war, that the strike
is hell M
conditions Not Improving.
Men who went out on a strike went
pack injured morally. and not the
same men. The children of strikers
mad been taught to taunt children OF
other workmen. The condition between
capital and labor were not improving.
ne SAID, although he believed the an
thraclte coal strike commission had
accomplished good results. He re-
ferred to the present labor troubles
IN Colorado, San Francisco and Chi
cago. These conditions were blocks to
Detterlng the general conditions of
the country.
II was becoming more and more
manifest that capital and labor Were
on each other"
Asked if he did not think that con-
dllons were improving as to lawless-
ness. Bishop Spalding said that it did
not seem so TO any extent. He said
the riotOus conditions during the anth-
raeite strike were not as bad in this
respect as the newspapers had made
them, although there was picketing
and always would be in strikes.
I don't think there is in America
any class Of employers who deliberate
~ do their men wrong" declared
Bishop Spalding.
The bishop said he believed the
American people to be people Of good
will toward labor and the distressed.
he believed the people free from an
archistic ideas, and said that the ten
dency to Socialism is only in a minor
way. He regarded a permanent tTi-
bunal of greater value than one created
for each case of dispute.
He did not believe, he said. in SYM
pathy strikes. When asked if he would
deny labor organizations the right 20
strike, he replied that the right 20
strike was the one weapon of labor or
CARNATIONS, and to deny that right
would be 10 deny the right to organ
lie, but the great object sought" he
added. lis 20 bring about peaceful set
Elements without strikes" Labor or
CARNATIONS, ne said, had accomplished
much good. He is satisfied that any
president would appoint Il nOn-parti-
san tribunal. He had asked Mr.. Mitch
I'll If labor organiza tons would thrive
f they lost the approval Of public opin-
on. and Mr.. Mitchell replied that they
would not, but would disintegrate.