Evening star., 1914-04-08
TRADE AGREEMENT
MAKES FOR PEACE
Advocated at Industrial Hear
ing by Both Employers
and Employees.
COMPARED TO REPUBLIC
IN PLACE OF AUTOCRACY
Under Protocol Plan Workers Are
Declared to Retain Fruits
of Victories.

Representative of both employers
and employees in the clothing industry
united in approval of the protocol or
trade agreement in their testimony to
day before the United States commis-
sion on industrial relations. Belle
that there should be an outside arbi
traitor to supplement Cancellation. az
provided in the protocol. was affirmed
II consider the directors of a corpo-
ration as trustees for all interests con
nccted with the shop. those Of the
workers as well as those of the en-
plcyers, said Joseph Schafner of CHI
cage secretary-treas surcr Of the Hart.
Schaffner & Marx Company. He advo
Gated an Industrial democracy, and sail
he believed that labor troubles we'e
caused by lack of effort to determine
what is justice.
Agreements Bringing Peace.
Substitution of definite agreements he
tween capital and labor was said by VT
nesses to be bringing peace out OF chaos
Agreements enforced in the clothing in
dustry in New York and Chicago were
described by employers and employee
who told of past and present difficulties
| The agreement or protocol in force IN
New York was declared by ]. II. Cohen,
| attorney for New York Manufacturers
| Association. to substitute reason for
force and furnish the means by which
the labor problem will he solved 'Iltl-
mately." lie added that the opportunity
| to present the facts of controversy in
the open makes for the success of e.
| forts to solve difficulties.
lin order to do away with strikes,
said Mr.. Cohen, you must substitute
| legal form for settling disputes without
1 haU nd
| employees who are willing to treat with
each other and who are fair-miEded.
Earl Dean Howard professor in the
| Northwestern University and manager of
4 the labor department of the Chicago
clothing firm of Hart. Schafner & Marx,
said that the clothing industry was for
merly constantly disturbed by strikes. but
| that his firm had brought about peace by
collective bargaining.
No Longer an Autocracy.
THE new SYSTEM" he said, lis merely
the introduction of a republican form
of government into industry in place OF
the former autocracy. 1t is impossible
to get along with the old system in A
large business"
| Mr.. Schaffner described difficulties his
company formerly had with its employees
and added that there has been little trou-
| BILE since the adoption of a definite agree
ment for the settlement of all grievance
| He declared he believed that the stock
| holders of the corporation were the trils
| tees of the interests of all concerns in the
organization, and that he thought the
| usual labor trouble was caused by the
| lack of any efforts TO determine what waS
justice.
Without trade agreement between EN-
| ployers and employees workmeu are con-
| stantly in fear of losing their positions
said Sydney. Hillman of New York: chez
clerk of the joint board Of coat and skirt
makers unions and formerly a lanor
leader of Chicago. He described the oper-
ations of different efforts for collective
bargaining.
Get Fruits of Victories.
Abraham Bisno. a New York labor
| leader, said that the advantages former
" won by workers through strikes were
usually lost later. Under the presen.
| protocol, he added, the workers retain
| their victories. He said that the sue
| cess of the agreements depends upon the
! strength of the unions, and that all OF
| the workers are in favor of the present
agreement. He suggested that the state
become party to the agreements
Frequent changes in women's fashions
| were given by several of the witnesses
as the causes of trouble in the clothing
| industry.
| In order to facilitate its investigation
| the commission this afternoon divided
| into two sections to hear witnesses. One
section listened to the arguments of em-
| ployers and employees in the printlS
| Trades and the other section had before
| it representatives of the building trades
Diverse Views Over Trade Pact.
| Bitter controversies that for years have
been waged between the National Found
| ers' Association and the international
Molders' Union were revived at the hear
ing Yesterday. Representatives oil filn
two organizations gave their views "'9
WHY they had been unable to maintain a.
| trade agreement. Each side thought th''
other was to blame.
John p Frey of Cincinnati. editor al
the Molders' Journal. charged that IN"
had maintained