The evening world., 1904-04-06
"Strike Is HE'LL" Says Prelate,
and as Labor Conditions Are
Not Improving a Peace Board
Should Be Named.
TO SETTLE ALL DISPUTES
AND PREVENT TlE-UPS.
Men Injured Morally by Indus
trial Conflicts and Provision
in Congress Bill Should Be
Carried Out.

WASHINGTON. April g. - Bishop
spaldinE, of Peoria, member OF the
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, to-
day urged the plan OF arbitration con-
tnined In the Foss bill before the House
Committee on Labor. The bill provides
for permanent Board Of Arbitration,
to which shall be referred disputes be-
tween labor and capital.
Answering questions by Acting
Chairman vreeland. Bishop spalding
said 1t was not his opinion that the
proposed tribunal would never be called
upon to determine the question OF what
is a legitimate pront on the investment
OF capital.
It's province would he To settle dis
putes as to hours. treatment and pay
OF employees by the employers. A fair
wage. he snid. was determined In the
shft coal mines of the West by the
condition in the mines and the cost OF
living Where n business did not per-
NIT OF a living wage according to the
American standard of living that
business ought to closo up, declared
the bishop.
II would say" he continued, "as
Sherman said of war. that the strike Is
hell"
Men who had gone out on strike went
back TO work injured morally. and not
the same men. The children of strikers
had been taught to taunt children OF
other workmen. The condition between
capital and labor was not improving,
he said. although he believed the An.
thrncite Coal Strike Commission had
accomplished good results. He referred
to the present labor troubles In Col
orado. San Francisco and Chicago.
These conditions were blocks to bot
terins the general conditions Of the
IL was becoming more and more man.
ifest that capital and labor were Inter-
dependent on each other.
Asked II he did not think that condi-
tions were improving as to lawlessness.
nn0p sDaans nH s.n :ad hs. .ad the de
Gus conditions during the anthracite
strike were not as bad In this respect
as the newspapers had made them, al
though there was picketinE, and always
would he violence In strikes.
II don't think there Is In America
any class OF employers who deliberately
do their men wrong" declared Bishop
Spaldirs
American people TO be a people of good
will toward labor and the distressed
He believed them free from Annrchis.
tic Ideas, and said that the tendency 70
sociaiism is only In a minor way. He
regarded permanent tribunal OF
greater value than ono created for each
case OF dispute.
Bishop spalding did not believe. he
said. in sympathetic strikes. The strike.
he replied when asked II he would deny
la Dor organizations the right to strike,
was the one weapon of labor orRaniZa-
tions, and to deny that right would be
to deny the right to organize. but the
great object sought. he added. Is to
Bring about peaceful settlements with
out strikes.
Labor organiza tons. he contended.
satisfied that any President would ap.
point a non-partlsan tribunal. He had
asked Mr.. Mitchell II labor organiza'
tions would thrive II they lost the ap.
proval of public opinion. and Mitchell
replied that they would not. but disin-
tegrate.