Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-11
RELIGION IN LABOR PROBLEM
Reform in Individual First Sep-Square Deal For Both Church and Labor Needed Says Charles Steze of New York-Spoke at Theater at Y. M. C. A. Mass Meeting For Men,

Charles Sickle of the Labor Temple, New York city, gave an intensely in- teresting address on "Labor's Cham pion," under the auspices of the Y. M. c. A. before an audience that filled the auditorium of the Davis theater to almost its capacity Sunday afternoon. Previous to the address, a programme was we'll rendered by Tubbs' Military band under the direction of Frank E. King.
 American Workmen the Finest.
 Leonard o. Smith presided at the meeting and the Scripture was read by Rev. c. H. Ricketts. Prayer was offered by Rev. E. s. Worcester. Rev. c. A. Northrup and James L. Case were also seated on the platform. Sev- eral hymns were sung by the congre- gation. MT. Smith introduced Mir. Sickle, who, in opening his remarks, said that the American workingman was the finest workman in the world; the most highly skilled. receiving the highest wages in the world; but in comparison to what he produces the poorest paid. In America, he said, 1t is not a question of production; we can beat the world at that; but question of distribution, of giving the workingman, and every man, square deal.
 Should Know Labor Questions Better.
 The average workingman is too close to his job, too much occupied with his work, to understand labor questions thoroughly, but this is even more true of the great employers of labor, who are interested solely in the production by labor. What both need, what we all need, is a greater outlook. TheVe are thousands of employees who be- lieve that we need but to destroy the labor unions to settle all labor ques- tions; who look forward to nothing but the destruction of organized labr. But the labor union is not the labor question. The socialist vote this year of nearly million, twice that of four years ago, the ten million trade union ists, the great unrest among the work ing people of England, France, Italy and this country go to show that is the era of the common man, that the workingman is coming into his own. In England there was the great strug- gle for religious freedom which brought the first settlers to New Eng land, there was the great struggle for political freedom, and now comes the fight for industrial democracy.
 Not to Be Judged by RascaIs. We should not judge the labor un- ionists by the McNamaras, the Mo | Manlgals. The history of the church holds many scenes as black as those
 in the history of the labor union, and 1 both the church and the trade unior have done much to merit the respect | of the other The trade union has g | deep moral or ethical value with whicf
 it is seldom credited. It is trying fol
 a square deal for the little children
 The trade union is making a bigger | fight for the protection of little chil dren and women in industry than an!
 other organization. It also urges
 strongly towards more temperate liv.
 ing. Every labor member of the Eng
 fish parliament is a total abstainer tt
 my personal knowledge. The working
 men insist that the men who repre-
 sent their interests and the intexest