The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
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Labor Conditions Hurt by Poll
tics is Condition in France.
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though misery obtain in all countries;
that the organization of our Trade
Unions and our F~ederations are a
standing protest against these great
human wrongs yet 1T is a fact in
c~ontrovertible, hat misery is less and
the conditions Of the workers best
ir those countries where wages are
highest and hours of labor least
hat is, where a normal work day OBJ
tains. I closed my part in the even
ing proceedings by urging all to cease
their cross purposes, to cave partisan
politics to it's field outside the labor
organizations and to come together for
the clearly defined OF trade
| Unionism; for the material, social
and moral uplift Of all the workers
of all the people.
When the meeting broke up one
of the leaders among my hearers
seemed disposed to quarrel with me,
nearly all expressed pleasure, con-
graduated me and shook hands with
me. NJ. August Reuter-, for a quarter
Of a century the most prominent man
in the Typographical Union Of France,
was delighted. Pataud, Of the Elec-
trical Workers, wanted the address,
which had been taken down stenO-
graphically, to be printed in full to
study it's points. Neil and his adhe-
L I'll dN I1CoI ~ 4SCl
can Trade Unionism. Yvetot, The rul-
ing spirit of the c. G.. T., became even
more cordial in his friendly attentions.
Thuiller and others accompanied our
little American group homeward.
The accounts of the meeting which
following the usual practice of the
French Press, were published in the
various newspapers in a ~straggling
way in the course of several days.,
were. so far as I saw them, sympa-
thetic; the writer's recognized hat I
had e~ndeavored to state facts and lay
them before the French workman
in the light of experience and for the
lessons they might each. They saw
hat America really has something
great to show France and other coun-
tries in trade Unionim.
Such conservative papers as the
lie Temps besides describing the
meeting in several columns gave it
leading sober editorials. lie Temps"
in summing up it's conclusions, said:
will the French Trade Unionists
some day understand the beneficent
role the Unions can play in the eco
nomic and social organization? The
Trade Union ought to to be a part in
the organism of society, not q ward
machine directed against it. 1t ought
to help in regulating the relations be-
tween the categOries of production the
employers and the employed. It
could be the agent of a benficent col
labOratiOn.Sa source of common pros
perity, instead Of a cause Of division
between men and of an industrial par
olySiS.
Revolutionary. liberal and conserva-
tive sheets alike, cited the principal
points of my theme. The failures in
the early attempts to mingle party po-
litical creeds with Trade Unionism;
the simplicity and unlimited scope Of
o-- TOMS o-I o,,rla4ior
it's plain and practical objects; its
greatness and development; it's
in advancing wages, re-
ducing the hours Of the work day.,
protecting women and children, OBJ
aiming the cooperation Of the State
proving conditions in the workshop,
and mine, and performing the
duties of great benefit societies.
In bidding au revoir to Paris-for
I expect to be there again at the end
of August to attend the international
Trade Union Congress- look back
over my brief visit to the beautiful
city with gcneuine satisfaction, in
spite Of hard work which occupied :
nearly my entire time. Aside from the
partly to be expected in
forms of business devote to
cornering or getting at any cost the
cash of tourists, the people of Paris
seem to me to be good natured,
sincerely polite, Of a fine in
t~elligence. ever ready with a sympa-
thetic word and smile. The commit
who acted as my hosts, antici-
pated every wish of the little party
" With which I ravel. My short visit
shown me a wonderful city-a
lard working city, as a background to
he city of pleasure seen by the strang-
er who looks no deeper than the sur
a city in the main of earnest
characterized by a commenda-
Die pride in their personal appearance,
the expression of many sentiments
hat add happiness to life and in gen
eral by a charm Of manner that~must
at bottom spring from a goodness Of
heart and kindly intentions toward
heir neiphbor whoever for the mass