The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-09
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of Newark, Ohio. member Of the exc
ecutive board OF the A. F. G. ". Union.
at the New Willard last night.
The flint glass workers have a mem
bership of about 23.Ooo. and they are scat
tered throughout the United States. We
believe In arbitration, and we deal di-
rectly with cur employers. There are fewer
organized glass blowers than any other
workers. In the whole field of labor
there are about so per cent Of this great
body Of people who are not organized.
This does not mean that they are hostile
to organized labor; on the contrary, it
simply means that they have not as yet
been reached for organization.
THE Philadelphia car strike should
never have been allowed 10 progress as
far as It has" continued Mr.. Hamilton.
who has Just returned from Canada.
where he has adjusted some disputes be-
tween the organization of which he Is
the head and some employers. II be-
heve in compulsory arbitration. and par
ticusrly should there be compulsory ar
bitrstion In dispute between labor and
capital where the public is liable TO suf-
Ter more than either the striker or the
capitalist. All strikes or labor disputes
which are liable to inconvenience the
great masses Of the people, especially
where public utilities are involved. like
transportation light, heat. and food.
should be aTbitrated
Samuel Gompers is a worthy man in
his way. and is. no doubt a leader in
the field OF labor. He is an expert along
those lines. and I have no doubt he is
charged with many mistakes which are
really not Of his making He has HIS
advisers, and TO a greater or lesser extent
he is under their influence.
Il understand that Gompers was in
vited to speak at q prohibition meeting
In Chicago. where he was expected to
say something that would help the cause
Of prohibition among the labor element.
Mr.. Gompers is reported as having placed
himself on record as being against pro-
hibition, but IN favor Of well-regulated
licensed saloon. / have no doubt but Mr..
Gompers is right. from a personal stand
point But his opinion on politics Of the
day does not carry any weight with those
who acknowledge him as their labor
leader The workingman will neither take
his religion nor his politics from Mr.
Gompers; they will heed his advice as
a labor leader. but that is about all"
Discussing the political situation in
Ohio. Mr.. Hamilton said that the Re-
publlcans will elect their governor. 10
matter who the Democrats may put W
Our organization voted the Republi-
can ticket at the last national election.
added Mr. Hamilton. "and that the vote
Of the members Of our organization AMI
the labor vote in Ohio was east for Pres
ident Taft is shown BY the fact that he
received the enormous majority Of 5000
votes.
"once when Emerson was in the COM
pany OF men of affairs, who had been
discussing railroads, stocks, and other
business matters for some time. he sal Z:
Gentlemen. now let US discuss real
things for a while. said Charles 5.
Thatcher. of San Francisco. Cal. at the
Shorehana last night.
Emerson was called the dreamer OF
dreamers' because he had the prophetic
vision that saw the world that would
be-the higher civilization to come. II
was dreamers ike Emerson who saw the
great metropolis of Chicago in a stray
Cling Indian village. the Omahas. the
Kansas Cities, the Denvers. the 'Salt
Lake Cities, Los Angeles. and San Fran
cisco many years before they arrived,
that made their existence possible
1T was such dreamers as Marshall
Field. Joseph Letter. and Potter Palmer
who saw in the ashes OF the burned Chi
cago a new and glorifed city. infinitely
greater and grander than the old.
las II was the dresmers Of '4s who built
the old san Francisco and made it the
greatest port on the western coast, so.
when San Francisco lay in ashes. It was
the dreamers OF to-day who saw the new
city in the ashes Of the Old, where others
saw only desolation. and who, with in
domitable grit, that unconquerable Amer
lean will that characterized the pioneers
Of a half century before, began to plan
a new city greater and grander than the
Old
Our public parks. our art galleries, our
great institutions are dotted with monu-
ments and statues which the world has
built to its dreamers-men and women
who dreamed of better things. better
days for the human race. Take the
dreamers out of the worlds history ana
who would care to read it? The most OF
the things which make life worth living.
which have emancipated man from
drudgery and lifted him above common
ness and ugliness-the great amenities Of
life we owe to our dreamers."
Lewis o. Martin, of New York. told this
story at the National last night:
= woman from New York and a won1-
an from Chicago were guests of hotel in
the White Mountains A minister from
Brooklyn related this episode of their
visit: They walked to point in front
of the house from which one of the most
magnificent views in the world is afford