Evening journal., 1910-04-29
DIR. WELLS TO
UNION MEN
Rector OfSt. Andrews Church
Addresses Combined
Painters
DELAWARE BEHIND IN
LABOR LEGISLATION

! OF recent date local Union No. 5e2 Rail-
way Equipment and Carriage Painters.
and local Union No. A9 Car and Ship
Painters. consolidated their forces under
tho name Of Local Union No. 4i9. Tho
Local is in a iourishing condition numeri-
1 caliy and financially. on Wednesday even
ing last the local union held an open meet
Ing. The hall was crowded. a slee club
rendered several pleasing songs, refresh
ments we're served, and all agreed that
the evening celebration was the most en-
loyablo the Local had ever experienced.
The chief pleasure OF the eenving was the
address Of the Rev. Hubert w Wells.
Rector of st. Andrews Church. The men
IN organized labor had read much Of Mr.
Wells views on the labor question. They
expected a lecture that would mean some
thing and they were not disappointed. Mr..
Wells said in part:
I'VE have come to learn in these last
years that political questions are at bot
tom moral questions. Every question that
touches human welfare is at finally a.
moral question. And that is the reason
that Christian Minister has some places
IN tho aims and the purposes OF such
organization as this organization. Your
, fight for decent living conditions, for de-
cent working conditions. for larger oppor-
tunity that shall come from leisure gained
from shorter working day. for ampler
% schooling for the children. for the restric-
tion of the labor of women in the interest
- OF tho homc-al this Is not your fight
- zone. but the fight of every man that has
j an eye to see the significance Of these
d things, and heart that loves his kind.
n and purpose bis enough to forget him
% self for the sake OF others. We OF tho
y church are supposed to have monopoly
u upon AN tho superstition that there Is,
y but let mo say to YOU what heartily be-
uovc. that all the superstition of the
church is a bagatello I'm comparison 10 tho
\ superstition in politics. When man votes
I, llbe pnrtv ucket-the Republican ticket.
d, because his father voted e., the Demo-
- cratic ticket. because his father and his
r- fathers father voted IL. before him-anc
or can give no sound reason born OF IN
ed great needs of his life for voting the part
.v. ticket. that man Is vastly more supefsu
Ie tous than any reiigionist. And the prGf
ut tical fact 20 which ] draw your attentiol
Is this, that a mans politics should hav'
r. a direct relation TO public policies that re-
D. gard Justice among men and tho srea'
T. matters of human welfare, and that no
an politics is a right politics until it has that
r relation.
T. Delaware is Backward.
& II should like to see .hc worldnemen of
III Delaware Interested TO choose men to our
m legislature that know something con-
cerning tho great human questions. and
that care enough about those questions
a 10 worl, for them heart and soul. Deldware
occupies the unenviabe distinction Of be-
ing among the most backward Of our CONF
= monweaiths touching legislation that re-
1. CARDS the broad interests Of her popula-
tion.
''The whole of civilized Erope-in-
n cluding Russia--has come TO a definite
r. conclusion i'm regard. for example, TO
is tho Fellow Servant doctrine-the doc
trine that forbids man to recover
damages for injuries received i'm tho
oi course of his employment from his
Mt master, when the injury was the result
of the negligence of a fellow employc.
,s Twenty-nine states of this Union have.
TO a greater or less degree, modified
z" that doctrine by statute. Even AUS
NJ tralia has abrogated il. But Delaware
ne retains IL in an the dreadful Injustice
Of II. i'm an the suffering it brings upon
ht that portion or our INDUSTRIAL popud-
he tion least able to bear it, Europe has
IL written an adverse Judgment against
. that doctrine, two-thirds of our States
4 have written an adverse Judgment
against t-but we retain il! That is
~ the situation.
Organized labor can render no great
er immediate service TO persons now de-
~ fenceless under the ruling of our courts
- than by sending men TO the Legislature
pledged TO align Delaware with the rest
- Of the thoughtful world-with practic-
& ally all of Europe, and with two-thirds
: of our States-by setting among tho
- statutes of Delaware a law that shall
of greatly modify the Fellow Servant doc
a. trine. IL should Immediately be modi-
fed in regard 70 common carriers-in
H. regard to our railroads of all sorts. and
a in regard 70 all very hazardous employ.
"a ments. And the same may be said al
III to 'Contributory Negligence Too Ions
on has the back least able to bear thl
100 burden OF negligence been compelled Z
'or bear the whole burden. The time ha
ch come when good and intelligent me
everywhere are believing and sayin
that the strong back should carry th
heavy burden-that industry shoul
pay the cost of the wear and tear Z
III industry. the human wear and tear a
" well as the material wear and tea
Which only means that we all mu.
3. bear the burdens which our industr
A. lays upon us. And while the employs
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