Evening journal., 1905-11-15

rather labor unions set the wages I'm
particulgr craft by the amount OF work
the average man can do. We say YOU
cannot work below a certain sum. but
you are allowed to obtain all over that
you can and any employe that Is in
competent can be discharged.
1t is also said that labor unions re-
strict the output We want to say that
since the printers have had their hours
Of labor reduced the output in that par
ticular line has been larger than ever
before"
Mr.. Mentzer touched upon the report
Of Carol ID. Wright. Commissioner of
Labor in which he said four hundred
men working eight hours "a day COM
lpleted a vessel ahead of 4SO men who
were working on another vessel. at ten
lhours "a day / do not put much faith
in this combination of labor and capital
lagainst the public since the public is
composed Of another labor or capital
land therefore there would be no inter-
est in combining against ourselves.
don't see the advantage because labor
would be one of those who have to pay
for the article increased in price.
THE very fact that capital is against
the closed shop should be an argument
in its favor Through the organization
Of labor we have removed children from
the factory and placed them back in
school I'm order that they might learn
the elements which fit them for decent
manhood and womanhood Every craft
and profession organizes. Among the
doctors the 'scabs' are called 'quacks'
lawyers call the humbugs of their busi-
ness 'shysters' and the (rough-necks).
that is the men who do the structural
iron work and who build our beautiful
homes at a continual risk Of their lives
call their 'scabs' snakes.
THE open shop question is merely a
bug-a-boo to frighten the public be-
cause ever since the American public
has become enlightened as to what
labor means, employers resort to the
lopen shop question. In conclusion 1 be-
heve that the only solution of the pro-
blem is for labor to vote for labor for
we cannot expect capitalists whom we
send to our legislative halls TO enact
laws for our benefit"
Archdeacon Hail said that there was
one thing radically wrong in labor
unions. He cited a case of man in a
shop who because 500 other employees
did not wish TO work with him was
discharged and a judge decided the
labor organization was right. If !
were employed in a shop" said Dr.
Hall. "and I was dismissed oven il
10000 men wanted me dismissed. and If
my country did not protect me / would
cease TO love that country"
Mr.. Mentzer said he had never known
Of such a case but that the man must
have been a bad one when so many men
demanded his dismissal. The Bishor
said he did not think in the descrip.
tion of employees as cited by Mr.
lMentzer applied to local employers.
/ William p. Bancroft asked whether
&C was not q. fact that labor depended
on capital and the more capital accu-
lmulated the better for labor.
The meeting closed with prayer by
Bishop Coleman.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the afternoon session several in
lteresting discussions took place.
The first was on the commandment
Thou Shalt Love Your Neighbor as
lThyself" Charles NJ. Curtis responded
to MY Neighbor." and the Rev. Fred
erick NJ. Birl1us to Myself"
The discussion was led by the Rev.
lC. Morton Murray.
What a sunday School ought to