New-York tribune., 1908-01-11
CROWDS GREET TAFT
At COOPER UNION.
SECRET.fRF PLEADS FOR
INDUSTRIAL PE.fCis.
Defends Corporations and Unions
Condemns Bidcklists and BoBeotfs =
Praises Tpjuncfions,

Secretary faft spoke fef an hstsr last night
before the Peoples tn=tItute in cooper linton
a. crowd that Hiled the great hall a. eVsf-
anwins Despite ths zIss IT his audience thefs
vere more than az many mafs persons outside
unable 90 gain entrance.
The daors opened AT tia esieek, whsn theas
sand. aesre t,t ilasaa stretching Ger biaskz. and
were ela=sa before ia a'eiaeE by the paIss
AFTER that only those haidins platform tebsts
could set in. ahd thsy bad % Hsst their way
through the etaWds. MANY waited 60 cheer Mf
raft when he ef building AZ io a'siaeh
Air Tart spoke ah capital and Labor aulhz
into the identify of interest between vealth ard
labor Ia great detail lie explained That ia the
protection Of capital and tis Invitation =" hiss,
ar wealth 10 reproduce capital by constant In
vestment iay the best interest ~ the working
man reviewing the history OF the organization
of great combinations Of capital aud safiHz that
Ia bar should not oppose them.
The spsaker said that panif= such as that ef
tb- last few months should shaw lahotsts and
the people at large the ihtetdepsnisnes 81 capt
tai and Ia bot Tha trouble had shonn -. said the
secretary. that society n"w was strictly sos
etefntiyr speaking later % che causes 81 che
manic Mi fafI said that u was due Ia his
,,nintan ia the exhaustion of free capital t9
thr tack Of "a aeshis currency aud 10 the sA=
Ensures Of business dishonesty aud ths assss-
sity of pufgihg many eotp"fatlnhs
linen tba arpfetaty went ga to sApiaih The
se.esstt, Of combinations Of labor. saying that
unIe=4 varkingmrn united tbets would bs an
nt.tutass for capital IA the necessary afranzsz
t.ntis tof the distribution - ths pt"ht ~ ias
,est,raut. af capital lie deeit apen ths con
tenfior nf many that iabnfsrs bad 40 fIsht 70
.,tsani1o Tot strikes. and said that he denied
tl,iz theory. He maintained The right Of seFA=
t1.,s - "a strike. To appoint leaders 10 dstsfs
mine when strike vas proper. aha g. levy
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n, dissaszins che method of settling strikes ths
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