Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-13
PRESIDENT UTTERS WORD
OF WARNING TO STRIKERS

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should the situation get beyond their
control the guests sprang to their feet
once more, mounted chairs, and
shouted themselves hoarse.
Speaks of Railroad Rates.
The President also spoke his mind
on other subjects nearest his heart
He said that there must be some regu-
lat1on OF railroad rates, and declared
that the President should be given
power by congress to create body
for their control He spoke, of the
| Panama canal with the pride of having
personally carried out the policies
which assure its speedy completion,
and humorously recounted the manner
in which he had secured the remodel
ing Of the canal commission in spite
OF the reluctance of congress on this
point. This was incidental to compli-
menting Illinois upon supplying Chair
man Shonts and Engineer Wallace, the
two best men he could find for those
places.
Calls 1t "BulIy Time"
The dinner was jovial affair from
the start. The President entered
wholly into the spirit in which he was
being entertained by a political club
of opinions contrary to his own.
In his own phrase it was a "bully
time"
The dinner was held in the hall on
the ninth floor of the hotel, the guests
entering from the Fine Arts building
and meeting the President one by one
IN Informal reception. Corporation
Counsel Tolman and Judge Tuley in
troduced the guests as they advanced
in single file, while behind the Presi-
dent stood Governor Deneen and May
or Dunno.
The Petition of Labor.
The following appeal was presented
by the representatives of organized
labor last evening to President Roose-
welt:
Chicago, May 9, 1905.-To the Hon
orable Theodore Roosevelt, President
of the United States of America
Honorable Sir:
This labor difficulty began as lock-
out. So far as there has been any
striking done, it has been a strike for
arbitration.
"The unions involved are committed
both upon principle and by specific
contract with the employers for arbi-
tration.
These contracts grew out of the
desire of the unions to protect the pub
lie peace and welfare by providing to
submit all disputes or differences Of
opinion to the umpirage of an impartial
third party, and accepting that deci-
slon-right or wrong--as binding upon
both parties. Such a course is guar
antee OF the preservation of law and
order. All that the unions ask or de-
sire in this controversy is that an arbi-
tration shall be granted as specifically
agreed to in the contracts involved
All that is desired is that the public
officials shall join with the labor bodies
in demanding that lawlessness shall
not be allowed to be used in forcing
contracts to be broken and that VIC
lence shall not be allowed to prevent
differences of opinion to be settled by
the quiet orderly method of arbitra-
tion
Provisions for Arbitration.
nv Will dClS VI June 20, 1915, pro-
vide for arbitration as follows, in the
sixth, fourteenth, and eighth sections
respectively:
Eighth-It is agreed that in the
event of misunderstanding or any
dispute arising as to the construction
of this working agreement, or any
misunderstanding in regard to the op-
GRAFTON or enforcement of this contract
between the parties hereto ~r as to all
differences of opinion In regard to any
section Of this contract, between the
party of the first part and the party
of the second Dali, no house shall lock
out any member of said local union
| No. Fl, and no executive board or bust
ness agent shall declare a strike, and
said local No. 81 shall not declare a
strike, but such misunderstanding, dis
pute, or difference of opinion shall be
referred within twenty-four (24) hours
| to the representatives of the parties
to this contract for settlement and in
case such representatives fail to settle
such controversy within twenty-four
(24) hours after the same shall have
been submitted to them, it is agreed
that each representative shall within
the second twenty-four (24 hours,
name an arbitrator, and the two arbi-
traitors so selected shall as speedily as
possible name one disinterested person
who shall not be manufacturer or a
member of any labor organization, and
the three SO selected shall, within ten
days time, settle the difficulty, and
the decision so rendered shall be bind
ing on all parties to this agreement. .
you will Therefore readily see that
we have the written right to demand
arbitration-a demand that has been
repeatedly spurned by the employers
in the presence Of Mayor Dunno of
Chicago.
| "And why spurned?
The Employers Actions.
Because they openly boast that
they can spurn it, and that the troops
under your command will shoot down
him who dares to openly protest
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