Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-25
WOULD END STRIFE
Aim of the National Industrial
Peace Association.
ITS PURPOSES ENDORSED
Action of Meeting at Congregational
Church.
COST AND WASTE OF WAR
Addresses Delivered by President
Needham, Jusctice Stafford, Rev.
DR.. Woodrow and Others.

! That the citizens of the District Of CO.
lumbia heartily indorse the work. plans
and purposes of the National Industrial
| Peace Association, and commend them
to the fair-minded and thoughtful peo-
pie of the country in all walks of life
for their cooperation and support; and.
further. that the members of Congress
be called upon to give this vital ques-
ton their most earnest consideration. was
the substance of resolution presented
| by Rev DR.. Samuel II. Woodrow pastor
of the First Congregational Church. at
a public meeting of the National Indus
trial Peace Association last night in the
auditorium of the church and unani-
mously adopted.
Full Opportunities for Labor.
Dr.. Charles w. Needham, president of
the George Washington University. pre-
sided. He discussed the subject of arbi-
tration of capital and labor and compared
their relations in former days and at the
present time. In speaking of competi-
| ton he said: Everything that is man
| ufactured today and the products of our
| truck gardens are competing with the
| world. It is absolutely essential to the
conditions that competition shall con-
| tinue
NO greater fallacy exists in the world
than that labor is a commodity. Labor is
not commodity because 1t has no spirit
and has no life. Let every man struggle
give him a chance to struggle; give him
an opportunity: let him have a share IN
the profits of the product and throw
around him all of the opportunities. With
that general rule upon all people will
come a general amalgamation. and in no
other way will 1t come
Il believe in the organization OF cap
ital. 1t has come to stay. ] also believe
| in the union of labor and the laboriing
men coming together and viewing their
opportunities. 1t Is the greed of capital
and the recklessness of organized labor
| that cause agitation.
Let us see in labor that they have
freedom for action and that they have
the responsibility resting upon men who
organize. There should be a financial re-
ers were responsible for their acts new
things would follow. If the laboring men
| were less selfish and had better leaders
they would be more careful when their
votes are cast. There must be freedom
i'll action. but there must also be law
Cost and Waste Of War.
Dr. Woodrow discussed industrial peace
and said: War is always expensive. 1t
withdraws thousands of men from pro-
ductive pursuits and costs millions for
| armament and equipment. 1t costs other
| millions to support these non-producers.
The United States government pays out
500 10000 for its navy and $So.UOOOOO
| for its army annually, but the people pay
| the money. Some time the world will
be wise enough to settle its disputes with
out the savage ,arbitrament Of war.
Industrial war is expensive. 1t draws
thousands. sometimes millions of men
| support while in idleness is very great
They may live on what they have saved
| for rainy day-may live In part on a
tax which Is levied upon their brethren
can go in debt for the necessities of life
and thus hang a mill stone about their
necks.
Some time the world will be wise
enough to settle disputes without strikes
settle them before they are begun. The
proper solution is third party. who can
come in between and at least suggest a
settlement. Good sense and good will Is
solution which can be found for any
problem"
Value Of Industrial Peace.
Mr.. P. C. Scullin. secretary Of the asso-
citation. expressed confidence in having
the Peace Association firmly established
in Washington. He declared that the in
dustrial conditions in the city Of San
Francisco are incompatible with the spirit
of free country.
San Francisco" he said, ''is today
city of about $4,000 Inhabitants. If she
turbed her pOpul ation would number at
least 100000. The powers that prey
decree otherwise. The monopoly in GER
tain trades and manufactures is complete
and ironclad. The masters of building
trades will employ none but union men.
Union men will use nothing but stamped
material furnished by the masters. The
competition of outside lumber firms is
| absolutely barred. The purchase of ma
terial by non union men, or even by an
innocent householder desiring to do an
odd job himself. is impossible.
AT sword points. employer and employee
lose sight Of duty in the determined as
sertion of their rights. They allow bit
of obligation to the public. The penalty
of warfare is a tax levied upon the inno-
cent third party. For the past thirty
years 5000. 600 has been spent in fighting
by labor and capital. but not one cent has
been spent to stop it,
In speaking of the laboring men work.
ing eight hours day. Mr.. Scullin said:
Il believe.in eight hours work for a man.
man should work but eight hours while
his sister and mother toll for ten or
eleven hours each day.
Aim Of Arbitration.
Justice Wendell P. Stafford, Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, in the
course of his remarks said: 1.-THE law is
helpless In the question of making one
man work for another man or compelling
set of men to furnish work to another
set of men.
! There is no legal method preventing
strikes orHockouts, and I cannot conceive
of any law which would eliminate them.
believe Mr. Sculin is right in his presen-
tation of this problem. for what is arbi-
tration but an attempt to umpire dis
pute in the interests of the third party?
This Industrial Peace Association will fur
nish the directing center of public opinion.
the channel through which it can be eX-
erted.'