The San Francisco call., 1904-03-15
LABOR TROUBLE
BEFORE CLERGY
D. Edward Collins Views on
international Arbitration
and Industrial Conditions
LOCKOUT is CONSIDERED
Executive Committee of San
Francisco Missionary Con-
yention Holds Meeting

Out Of an address on international
Arbitration" delivered before the Pres
byterian Ministers Association by D.
Edward Collins at the Presbyterian
House yesterday arose discussion
dealing with the labor situation In
America and the Citizens Alliance.
Mr.. Collins subject was originally
devoted to war, the settlement of in
ternational disputes, the great service
to humanity and nations rendered by
the Hague arbitration tribunal and the
anticipation of the great powers re-
ducing or abolishing their vast armies
and navies.
At the close Of the address the Rev.
Mr.. Bevier and the Rev. DR.. Strong
expressed the hope that Mr.. Collins
might have dealt with arbitration also
as it would affect the labor problems
of the moment.
"Lockouts" and strikes were then
discussed, Mr.. Collins reminding his
audience that he considered the action
of the Oakland butchers in locking
out" their employees quite as serious
as the stand of strikers and labor
unions that called out men and pre-
vented them from accepting employ
ment.
AS the employers had taken that step
there was, he said, a resort to extreme
measures on both sides.
Mr. Collins referred TO the Citizens
Alliance and the work of Mr.. Parry
Of Indianapolis, whose association, he
understood. had been instrumental in
ri OH In Lob +Ha
Idaho.
The lockout, he said, which had been
inaugurated in Oakland in a small way
might be a criterion by which future
troubles in labor might be determined.
ADVOCATES EQUAL RIGHTS.
While it did not seem to him that
an employer should say that a man
should not belong to a labor union, he
admitted that independent labor suf-
fered through the unions. Mr.. Collins
believed that all men should have equal
rights and opportunity.
He illustrated the case where a man
was not permitted to employ his own
son as an apprentice and stigmatized
some union labor methods as usurpa-
tion and slavery, but he asked If it
if employers on the other hand adopt
the method of the lockout"
The Rev. H. B. Mowbray addressed
the meeting on "Our Work in the Sun
day School," and took occasion to crit
icize the old methods while giving pre-
ference for a modern pedagogic system.
PUBLIC AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
THE Public School and the Sunday
School" was the theme of paper read
by w. Kingsbury before the Methodist
Ministers Association yesterday at
Epworth Hall.
Mr.. Kfngsbury said in part:
The public school educator falls short In his
effort because, in attempting to develop char
acter, he must under our laws. and fire.
quently following his own inclination omit
that most essential phase OF character devel-
opment. the spiritual.
mention God The thought of a loving and
personal God is far from the minds of even
Christ protesting teachers: far from their
minds. because OF the fear OF claim that
they are teaching sectarian doctrines.
We hear our schools spoken Of goddess
fore. the more the need Of our Sunday schools
I fear that harm is sometimes done in i'm
OF special training as Sunday school teachers.
and leaving them to suppose that we mean the
training given our day-school teacher
laws of pedagogy, but do not frighten away our
teachers by using the term
The preparation OF the day-school teacher Is
in the normal school; the preparation OF the
Sunday school teacher should be in her closet
The day school teacher feels her work finished
n she turns out a merely respectable and pass
ably intelligent product; the Sunday school
teacher can only feel her work done when she
sees her pupil close to the feet Of our Saviour.
PREPARE FOR CONVENTION.
The executive committee of the San
Francisco Missionary Convention, to
take place in the city next month, and
for which big preparations are being
made. met yesterday afternoon at the
Methodist Book Concern building, DR..
G. B. Smyth in the chair.
ARRANGEMENTS were made to hold
meetings beginning Thursday evening,
April 2S, to be continued Friday all
day, Saturday morning and evening
and Sunday in the afternoon. In addi-
ton to the meetings in the city, which
will be held in the Alhambra Theater,
there will in all probability be meet
ings Friday and Saturday evenings
and Sunday afternoon in Oakland.
Among the dignitaries of the Meth
odist church who will deliver addresses
during the convention will be Bishop
Thoburn of India, Bishop Hartzell of
Africa; DR.. j. r. Day, president of
Syracuse University, N. Y; Bishop
Warren, Bishop Joyce, Bishop Goodsell.
Bishop Moore. Bishop Fowler, Bishop
Warne of India, Bishop Vincent, DIR.
John F. Goocher of Baltimore, DIR. A.
B. Leonard of New York, DR.. w. F.
Oldham of Chicago, DIR. e. M. Randall
of Tacoma, DR.. E. r. Ollie, Rev. w. M.
Brewster, Rev. John w. Butler, DR.. M.
C. Harris, DR.. B. S. Haywood and
Henry J. Mccoy of the San Francisco
Young Mems Christian Association.
Bishop ]. w. Hamilton, LID, will
preside at the opening of the conven-
ton.
The First Congregational Church of
Petaluma, of which the Rev. Samuel
C. Patterson is pastor, closed a con-
tract yesterday with a California organ
company for a patent pneumatic or
ran to cost S3500 The Instrument is 10