The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-08
Right And Wrong Ways
For The Redress Of Wrong

Labor Commissioner P, H Connolly, in his annual re
agreements. Commissioner Connolly for many years
halter at the time of his appointment was secretary of
the union of his trade, and is frankly in sympathy with
He prefers trade agreements to strikes adjusting
relations makes the statement that 1O3 out of
2O4 such agreements with their employers
Thus far labor travelled its way to advantage
eous collective bargaining The time may arrive
when the strike will be just the time may
come when war will be unnecessary -
The power to strike, the presence Of the militant
force organized and ready to strike will some day bel
enough to prevent all strikes Where is equal up
both Sides will find way to just and
equitable solution of the dispute between them
the the right and the ability to strike is
only the of the workmans power to bargain
successfully with his employer but it is weapon certain
O be frequently utilized.
Commissioners Connolly is not in sympathy with the
this organization is frankly revolutionary body which
desires for the workman not portion Of his product but
whole it, which would make all property used
for production Gas factories steamboats, and the ike
government property to be administered substantially as
It was inevitable that l. W W should appear il
the United States representing type of thought that has
Every period of social change has created an ultra
radical body of who have been willing to resort to
substitute therefor something more to their liking The
type of mind is represented by John Brown who led al
hopeless assault upon Harpers Ferry IN the hope of
slavery was abolished but Brown went to the gal
lows That the penalty he paid for resorn to force
before society was ready to employ force
Trace of the sentiment aniatng ultra radical groups
die for opinions. But it is essential when
list program of violence that they shall have enough
other with them to make the effort successful
Mr. Gompers, head Of the American Federation gives
expression to the tendency to violence latent in all of
his the conviction of the labor leaders
who were accused of dynamiting.
Mr. Gompers offers justification of these unfortun-
by asserting they desperate
deeds by the subtle injustice of their employers under
the forms Of law
the tendency has been every civilization
for selfish and cunning to distort the laws their
profit and the injury of the people. The people find
LOCALITIES,
which they escape. By special law special
law by device and then another they deprived of
the proceeds of their industry and their cost of living
stant1y Increases
only successful method of restoring vicious
to a condition of usefulness.
But in the United States different suffrage
is widely extended. Information is plentiful There
is press powerful enough to long the true
facts of any condition. Already purely legal measures
have been devised which place the hands of the people
constitutional and easily workable for redress of
In popular election United States Senator'S Direct
Primaries Initiative Referendum recall Judges
there is abundant arsenal for the safeguarding of lib
erty
The ynamiters are criminals in the usual sense Of
the word They criminals the political
word They sought not their Immediate personal profit
but the advantage of collectively. This must be
ceded
their methods are not justified by the general
feeling of their fellow The verdict of the jury
proof of this The virtue of the jury
centuries that expresses the social thought of the day
The best safeguard that country can have against
revolution and the instability of it's institutions is system
of government thoroughly responsive to the public
Under such a system men like Commissioner Connolly
rather than like President Ryan the Structural
Iron Workers. will be representative of the thought the
masses Of the workers