The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-02
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lSneQ- lie aQOGQ. got them. now ever; they did not go out that win ter I said ,How?' He answered., I sent smallpox patient into camp and then I told all the villagers about it. there was only one road out of the woods, and after I told the viI- lagers there was smallpox in the en- campment in the woods they made a bargain with me agreeing not to let one of those men get out of the wood choppers camp that winter And then he added, as a saving grace: I sent doctor in and had them all vaccinated.' tell you that incident 1 to show that there are devils among us employers as we'll as among the labor men.
 We employers have thought that it was an element of strength for our own cause to keep the unions weak, and to that end we have kept out of the labor organizations our my conviction that it will be to the advantage of every employer who wishes to do his share towards so1v- ing the issue between capital and la- stronger class of his employees not only to join the labor organizations but to take active and effective part in their work. From unions so consti tuted much help will come for the rightful settling in the most lawful way of the great questions involved in the relation of employers to employees.
 Brand WhitIock, Mayor of Toledo, points out that the desperate and cruel crime of the A1cNamaras was based on the old error of thinking that there are circumstances which justify force and brutality and violence:
 All the brutality, all the violence in civilization are based on that error, including official brutality and Vfo- people can become really great until they learn that as Tolstoy says, there are no such circumstances.
 l. There is no more good in dynamite than there is in Pinkerton bullets, for 5 instance; no more good in assassina- tion than there isSin hanging and no the same.
 Charles Stelzle a minister who holds union card, is the head of the La bor Temple of New York, is superin. tendent of the Presbyterian Board .bf Home Missions and Is Dean and So- cial Service Specialist of Team One of the Men, and Religion Forward
 Let it be admitted that organized labor shall put it's house in order" But, first aof all, let it be conceded house. The almost fanatical attempt to put organized labor. out of busi- ness has resulted in bitterness of the kind which must inevitably result in Los Angeles tragedies. Let it be frankly admitted that most employ- ers' associations are organized to ex- terminate trades unions-nSt only bad trades unions. but all trades unions. The lawyer-secretaries of manufac> turers associations and citizens alli- ances are fattening on the unholy propaganda which they are conduct ing, most of them making mountains of evil-trades union mole hills, saying never word about the moral and ethical value of organized labor
 James B. Reynolds, assistant district attorney of New York, who was spe> cially commissioned by President Roosevelt to Investigate the stock yards, following the Jungle exposures, recommends a thorough inquiry to get at the truth of the situation:
 Have both sides in the long conflict between employers and workmen in the structural iron industry acted in disregard of the constitutional rights and personal liberty of the other? Un- til there has been a searching in- quiry as to the provocation given for the I13 (more or less) dynamite ex- plosions laid to the door of the iron workers, no one can answer these questions fairly or justly. Let us have the whole truth about beth sides in this struggle before pass final judgment upon either.
 A sweeping arraignment is made by Mrs. Florence Kelley, herself law yer, a former state factory inspector of Illinois, and secretary of the Ma -tional Consumers League. She says:
 The life of the poor is lightly held in America. Tenement house owners destroy it by wholesale sordidly. Railroads and mine-owners sacrifice
 he lives of workingmen as a recur,
 ing incident of their business. Food nanufacturers sell poisonous candy to