The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-20
AGE LIMIT ON woRKMEN.


the his campaign making appeal
class prejudice and pays the Intelligence OF his hearers
compliment He Processes ability have sane checks in
erpoed by upon rights of employers and
ployes respect the imposition OF limit for certain class
Of skilled artisans.
When Congressional committee investigated great
Homestead Pennsylvania the Democratic
bers his the House expressed to that body his surprise
finding started by artisans who receiving
wage of from SIS day. and who rode their work
their The fact that the class OF skilled artisans in
the business upon whom the employers fix age
limit forty years the highest paid workmen the world 1t
their the kind that physical
exhaustion decay. of skilled and expert judgment
training eye by appearance
diOn OF the metal which fits it for each process which be
subjected
Mr. says age
run the breaking point and then the heap 1t
such thing highly paid artisans, who get
salary than member Of Congress- shall seek other OF
activity and for the of the competence which they acquire
they have thrift and make for Others enjoy the
poun and capital for the varied profitable which
may be put
The idea the eghthour day give employment
If the labor unions right in debating the beginning and
the end days shall say employers wrong
and the departments that pay the highest
in the wod The young who have qualified themselves
for that work and who denied while employees rich ride
and from steel iron mill in their carriages will sym
pathz with Mr. Lvernas But aside from this explanatory
statement suppose grant
limit imposed upon that highly paid labor will
children inherit from generation conditions of terrible grav
ty" how going by O Congress?
There all around social conditions open cri
c but they originate the voluntary constitution of society and
not IN civil they subject governmental
troll His that he law of Congress that will
class OF highly paid artisans IN employment to an indefinite
and would be legislation keep of
that class OF employment others qualified large emol
1t would be limitation of their rights 1t is
the limit fixed by employers for this highly paid labor is fixed by
experience the which the artisans themselves
choose retire and their accumulated capital for profit other
lines OF life We do not recall complaint from the artisans who
affected by the limitation while the who stand waiting for
the places they the who would be employ
ment by Mr. Lvenass impossible law have only satisfaction
express.
The itself fixes age limitation
of the public There
1
exactly by the similar limit highly paid artisans
by furnishing promotion clear down the line Why does Mr.
venah nvegh these limitations imposed by the Gov
itself.
The would get benefit politically
by such appeal He class and appeals
which he thinks does understand we'll enough
danger exposure of the motive.
Another thing noticeable in his of the subject He
speaks always the employers the of enterprise who organize
the wagepayng industries OF the country the enemies of
needless destroying
growth prosperity be curbed while they permit
ted operate and be eliminated he laws
to do it!
The conenplates
with pleasure nearly all up through all the grades
labor He instances Andrew Carnegie of these offenders
Whatever be said OF need be forgotten that he
widowed mother and beginning the owiest
by pursuit of high ideal made his He wealth.
but what in all history has of literally for the
benefit OF all men? In his youth denied him schools and
books, and he if he
putting books within reach of those like himself So he has
than SoooOooo Libraries and to learning His
session OF fortune be criticized but nothing should rob
him OF the credit OF the to which it is
The limitation of fortunes and revolutionary interference
birary law with the social of make
that appeals
these things must know that he promises the impossible and
flaming class hatred for his purposes.