New-York tribune., 1908-12-15
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Criticism BY HERMAN BIDDER.

Il exists with much success means that 1t viii
spread and become dominating factor
CRITICISM BY HERMAN RIDDBR-
Herman RiIder president of the American News
paper Publishers Association. spoke on the trade
agreements OF newspapers He said that they had
worked out satisfactory results for newspapers and
their mechanical employees for period OF seven
years q statement which he wished to make sub
ieet qualifications however. He added;
We had right to assume that that type Of labor
ION Of @ te 1Faspety m Which, we had % enjoyed would
recognize the corresponding obligation and recip-
preston Newspapers were forced to study retreneh
ment in every direction but when they turned to
regard which due they confronted a stone wall
us tf1at with increasing pay there has come m
creased ineff1ciency of labor, and that there has
have attempted subordinate forenen in the
control Of our shops and TO substitute for MIN "a a
chairman of the chapel Unions have
not maintained high standards. They have estab-
lished guilds that excuoeo competent ana s
They sought greater profit for indivtduals rather
trade has not been provided for ,, -.
Complaints come To Us that in some cities the
nav is that members refuse TO Work more
than five davs In the week They quit their places
70 make way for Substitutes that are incompete1ts
with first class skilled labor walking the streets
in idleness unable TO obtain employment. is a
II 10 continue uncorrected
Mr. Gompers said in opening his remarks he
had listened with some amusement to the confes
sion made by previous speakers to trade agree
r,ents which subjected them to punishment under
the sherman antitrust law He said that more
than likely the law had been interpreted by
the courts in accordance with its terms, and IT
did not lie in his province to criticise the United
States Supreme Court. 1t remained, however, =
fact that this law, which had been designed to
check the rapacity of corporations, was now being
used TO restrain organizations of labor Although
the present administration probably was not IN
sympathy with this power in the law, he did not
think it right that labor organizations should be
Obliged to exist through the sufferance OF those
frtrusted with the government.
C5oMPERs PRAISES BELMONT
Mr. C1onnpers praised Mr.. Belmont for what he
had done for the employees Of his railways after
taking control but said the mistake had been made
in per7nittinE the organization Of the men to be
crushed at the time OF the strike the elevated,
and that now there nothing to vouchsafe peace
in the operation Of the public service corporations
in this city.
As for the complaints o, Nfr. Bidder. Mr.. Com
ne-s said that the trouble that employers
wanted work turned out in & hurry.
Others who spoke were Louis R. Schrau1. chair
mon OF the Cancellation committee OF the National
Brewers Association; James O'Connel, president of
the National Association of Machinists; James NJ
Lynch president Of the International Typographical
Union: A b. Gsrretson. president Of the Order OF
Railway Conductors, and James Duncan. secretary
of the Granite Cutters Association Of America
At The meeting oE tn. woman department in
tre morning Mrs. J. Borden Hartman presided in
tbs absence of Mrs. Joseph Medin Mccormick. OF
C-bi,~go the president. Reports we're made on the
work done during the year by the various com
rlittees and suggestions made for the future.
one Of the most interesting reports vas that OF
Mrs Taft She told of what had been done and
was contemplated toward making more pleasant ths
conditions and surroundings under which the EN-
pIoves of the national state and municipal govern
nents worked
Hartman chairman. reported 10T the
committee on welfare work for Industrial employees
She showed how the scope Of tbs work extended
from the cotton mills in the South 20 the factories
OF the North.
II order that the g tiouai eouzrnittee on Industrial
economics might the better understand tbs point
of view cf a large number OF the industrial work
ers they had undertaken to Investigate socialism,
the -gist of the>report made by Mrs. Horace
Brock. Of Philadelphia
FOR MORE AMUSEMENT HALLS
One Of the longest reports was that Of Mrs.
Archibald Alexander. chairman of the New York
al O New Jersey section. which the first to be
formed. She explained how improvements had
heea sought and gained il the industrial Condi-
tons under which various classes OF laborers had
been working She spoke particularly of cigar
makers. garment workers and stationary engi-
neers- In view of the fact that the Grand Cen
tral Palace in this city would probably be torn
down within . year the committee sus-
gested that some large amusement hall, capable Of
accommodating some three thousand persons. be
provided.
Mrs. Everit MACY. NJ New York, was chosen
chairman Of q nominating coInmitte 10 report
a ticket of officers TO be voted this morning
Mrs. Mccormick has declined to accept another
term. Her successor Is tain, but Mrs Horace
Brock. of Philadelphia, IS being spoken Of. Miss
Ada 9. Sweet 'tbe national secretaTy, also expects
70 retire.
A general scheme OF organization snd perrIs-
neut set of bylaws adopted in executive ses-
sion.
Among others present at the meeting Mrs.
Roger WoIcott. Of Boston: Mrs. B. Frank MebaHe,
OF Spray X c: Mrs. Cyrus Ptnlau Orr. of Biz
r1inghan. Ala: Mrs. = T. MCKiSsck, Of Green
wood :. G; Mrs. Arthur Lee, of Elkins, x. Va,
Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. Cornelius Stevens, Presi-
dent Of the Acorn Club of Philadelphia; Mrs.
Francis Higstnson Cabot Mrs. Clarence H Mac
ka- and Mrs. Clement GrisCoTn, jr, Of Philadel-
phia-