Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-23
OUR INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

OUR INDUSTRIAL PEACE.
 It is a matter of much pride throughout the Warren District that harmonious relations between employers and employees are such as to conduce to a season of conentment and prosperity which promises endure. This does not mean that employees have secured every thing to which they believe themselves entitled; that emploers aye eniong what they consider to be complete cooperation their But it does that spirit genuine friendness has been knded; that each side is disposed to listen respectful ly the complaints other; that steady progress is being made toward the final solution some day of problems without those violent interruptions which brought distress and suffering into other iu dustrial communities without accomplishing any good end
 Because Of the promising conditions existing here the mining industry in the Warren District would proud ly call itself of the attention attracted to the steel industry through the speech of workman at meeting of the United States Steel Corpor ation He is Edwin R. Smith a sheet iron worker Ali expressing of the free and independent American worker against being held up the public gaze as weak ignorant and dissatisfied creature driven by his master perform daily strengthening stunt in order to into the lap of the employer riches in which he had no part share. he said:
 CT am satisfied that you would find a great majority of the men are very good citizens, satisfied you would find out that; it is too bad the way they are sandered. The critics, as rule many ol them, arc in their intentions; but their misrepresntaons go to the demagogues and then held up to tine world under the red banner although American citizens"
 The sincerity of the different workers who spoke at the meeting, who were also stockholders Of the corporation, was not doubted by any who heard them, or by those who familiar with the facts As the head of large independent company said in commenting on the meeting "l have not the faintes doubt that these to the meeting entirely of their own accord and sincere in what they said, for l know what the corporation has done for mproy- ing the condition of the steel worker"
 Several of the men who spoke at the meeting were men who worked 12 hours a day The 12hour a day shift has ever the strongest charge hurled against the corporation and steel companies generally by the woud-be friends of the These long hours which are supposed sap the health and strength of the men forced to endure them did not to have wrought any injury the of the speakers, and they them selves testified that the work was neither very hard nor very continuous.
 Mr. smith took the occasion to point out that it was the worker himself who had insisted upon the nsttu- uon of 12hour day. He declared that the refusal of Che companies to grant l2hour day would often have been sufficient cause for a walkout He said:
 "I helped to establish it. and every workngman who helped build up ho iron business hepled estab- fish it. Let be fair. let put the blame where it belongs"
 1T there significance in the events of the meeting fl lay in the fact that the stand taken by the 1yorkmen orators indicated me growing spirit of co operation between capital and labor and he realization on the part of the real worker that Che solution of his problem is be found in such cooperation in mu- tal give and take
 As suggested before. the meeting was out of the ordinary and he least unusual feature the ot fering up Of a prayer by Samuel R Maitland another workman an innovation which had almost startling effect upon Che stockholders present accustomed as stockholders either to meetings entirely formal or taken up with angry and heated debates