Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-06
JOHN MITCHELL TALKS 0N LABOR
Few Word. with View to Bringing Employe and Wage Farmer Toeether-Heard by Bic Crowd on Union Square.

stepped to the front to address the crowd. He said in part: Ladies ana gentlemen: It is enapently httins that the organized wage earners should pc playing an important and conspicuous part in the celebration of the indepen- dence of our country and the founding of the town, for organized wage earn CTS played an important part in mak- ing possible the celebration of today W0rhingmen have not always claimed or been accorded all the credit that was their due, but Paul Revere was a member of a labor organizations ana the minute men. most of them belong ed to the guilds, those precursors oI the labor union- It is not saving 100 much to state that organized labor nss M always been true and loyal to the highest concepts of liberty in every crisis of history. (Applause.)
 My good friend. Mi. Roosevelt has been proud to proclaim that there were no better soldiers than mine workers who made up a large part of his Rough Riders, and the chief executive today has endorsed organized labor in lan- guage stronger than can command and never was there stronger endorse ment of labor unions than that made by President Taft.
 I am grati1ed to find the Norwich Central Labor union engaged Tn max ing this celebration a success. I~is htting for 1t was their hands which helped to make this the city beautiful have always labored to establish friendship between the workingiaan and his employer to enable them te work in cooperation together. I am aware that employers do not always treat with proper consideration when dealing with their men. I am not one who believes their interests to be iden- tical or irreconciIiable, but rather re- ciprocal, and believe the time is not far distant when every one eligible will be proud to be in the ranks of a labor organization.
 Some men have stayed out for rea- sons best known to themselves, but the greatest and best men eligible have been glad to avail themselves>of mem- bership, and MT. Roosevelt and Presi- dent Taft are both proud of their membership
 In closing. Vice President Mitchell referred to the martyrs who had brought to the cause the blessings of God, and brought 1t out that organised labor stood for more than higher wages and shorter hours, viz: Higher cit izenship, better manhood. noble wo- manhood and the defense of the help- less child. (Applause.) He thanked the c. l.. U. and the celebration com mittee for the honor of participating in the celebration and expressed the double hope that the city might grow and organized labor keep pace with fl to the moral and intellectual welfare of their fellow men.
 Three cheers for Vice President Mitchell, proposed by M. J. Kelley, and three cheers for Dr. Hartman were given with a will. and then many filed up on to the platform to shake hands with MT. Mitchell. Among these were some of the Tierney cadets and the six year old son of Charles P. Lynch Mitchell Lynch, named after the great labor leader.
 During the rest of MT. Mitchelps stay in town until he left by the TIC train he was entertained at the Wau- regan house by. the local committee.