Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-14
'AGO. LABOR SHOW
Sure tp Result From the
 AlndudtriaI Exhibit.
EUNIONS IN A NEW LIGHT

Employers and Workers Learned 4h That Will Doubtless Rebound | Hheir Mutual Advantaee-A Sig &nt Incident.
 . chicf topic of discussion in in Scircles in the last few weeks &en the effect of the recent Chi 1Mustrial exhibit, writes Luke ln the Chicago Record Herald. lii >&uarters it is admitted that good f1eGnlt, and genuine regret was eX- 4 Aedsby employers and workers alike VVthe exhibit was not kept open for r her week. Ii was only in the last |kV@Or three days of the labor show" |A'Ssitss full intent and purpose were
 srstOod and appreciated.
 ! Selme criticism was directed toward |fro, management of the affair by em-
 CTS who thought too much attention ''fpaid to showing up the sWeatshops
 latnOt enough to protected machinery. Il B, R,employer who visited the exhibit
 ,ral times said the safety devices "nuvn are worthy of the careful con |lry ration of employers purely from standpoint of economy, but" he
 I'd II find t tard to interest them
 because th Ehave got the impress
 ,that this is-.a sweatshop exhibit n1by 8 few sentimental old maids .. have no practical ideas on busi le labor unions, on the other hand. C1ally those whose members suffer .a k through sweatshop competition. Isas the garment workers and the
 srs, believed the exhibit a great ---ess.
 ley looked on it as q good means of srtising their union labels and of ing the lesson home by contrast ing sweatshop with the modern sani- m workshop.
 E IRt among the visitors who attended AAiexhibit were some who caught the der idea behind the whole affair
 to whom it was a revelation. The T foyer engaged in manufacture is ., rally interested in machinery lltsuniOn man or woman naturally is
 eSted in union labels and is in- i, Id to think that the whole social oVelem rests on that point.
 tn are apt to overlook the human
 ct of modern industrialism and it this aspect that the exhibit ght out in a remarkable degree
 ed, that vas it's real purpose. safety devices, union labels and -' things wore shown incidentally.
 aps ono of the most interesting. suggestive flings which happened 1Dlg the lKit was the revolt of a ly-of e4catshop workers. The ke" of the people posing as ''hor
 examples" was not without a DNof grim humor. and the news
 men readily recognized in it the dlitie; For good story" But Ia it all there was much deeper Its, ,dcance
 workers who revolted did not for the purpose of furnishing a |hll etcry.
 the first time in their lives they fellow human beings we'll dressed. and neat, walking around and |e Qg with wonder and pity on the
 lid Surroundings of the sweatshop
 erB. It was the contrast that -Lened in them the desire and as |..dOn for more of the good things of Tn their miserable home, which
 even worse than the reproduction \ VS1n the exhibit, for the reason that \ bdor could not be reproduced, they pted their conditions with a sort
 nllen, hopeless despair.
 Due immediately that their degrada-
 RAs thrust home upon them by 10 Vol contrast they felt ashamed of untidy and squalid surroundings be4an to clean house. It was a PAt4tion of the theory held by many aSssuch workers have no desire to |ni, their conditions.
 ~ effect did the .strike" have on ho witnessed it? Some, per majority. thought it amusing.
 Hooked at it in superficial way. ,..3 3here were some who saw the real
 ..Ndy behind it. All who visited the
 1bit were not superficial observers. incident awakened in many sense of social obligations than |s Ad ever experienced before. In- |reeht as that one incident may ap- sa1!, was worth the whole trouble II, tense of getting up the exhibit .M5ewed in the proper light.
 6 from any standpoint, the in 14N exhibit could hardly fail to
 H&hind lasting impressions which Gre a wholesome effect on the mnd morals of the community. NaJ Myers saw labor unions in new ome of them perhaps caught lt which prompts men and wo- Organize in the hope of better |A conditions, and in future they r. more inclined to overlook the
 of the unions and the abuses hey sometimes practice in their rs to realize their aspirations. d Ibor unions. too, will profit by i, ley saw and heard. They will ]. ned to look at the problem in a Al.A