South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-22
MAKES RADICAL
PLEA FOR LABOR
Daniel GuggeTiheim, Head of
Smelting Trust, AmazeS Fed
eral Commission - Differ
enCe Between Rich and Poor.

NEW YORK. Jan. 22.-Daniel Gug
genheim. multi-millionaire head
the smelling trust, amazed the fedora
industrial commission and a big
crowd Of spectators Thursday with
the most radical plea for labor that
has ever come from a capitalistic
source.
Industrial unrest is on the in
crease. I think" said Mr.. Guggen-
helm. testifying before the commits
sion. which il investigating the causes
OF this unrest. and / am sorry 10
say think It will continue to in
crease unless something Is done for
the workingmen.
The greatest canker in the world
is the canker Of envy. When the
workinguan realizes how much he
has TO envy, the unrest will increase.
Much VIII be done in the future be-
cause the employers of workers have
had a great awakening in the last few
years. We are getting away from
the old idea that we must ruin COM
petitors TO succeed. Employers and
capitalists have now come to realize
that IL is neither necessary nor de-
sirable TO grind down labor.
The point is this" said Mr. Gug-
genheim. speaking earnestly while
those who had expected an entirely
different recital from so strong a rep
resentative OF capital, bent forward
eagerly. the difference between the
poor man and the rich is too great
To reduce that difference is the way to
get away from this unrest / am not
one of those who believe there is
too much legislation. Why, we
haven't begun TO legislate vet. We
are many years behind England and
Germany in this respect / am in
favor OF legislation. / favor the fed
eral government and the state help
ing men To find work And when the
WOrkinSman Is sick i believe the state
should see that he is properly at
tended to.
III is a big problem" continued the
trust magnate, TOO big in fact for
the state to tackle alone. Too big for
the employer 10 tackle alone. The
two must get together and cooperate
with the workingman."
Sitting close by while Mr.. Guggen-
helm talked was John ID. ROckefel-
ler lr. The Guggenheim and the
RockefellerS are ancient enemies In
Colorado recently while the civil war
ragged on the Rockefeller properties.
the Guggenheim plants didn't lose a
DAY Near TO Mr.. Rockefeller was
Mother Jones, who has denounced
him thousand times. All about we're
J. ". W. members and others of the
daily increasing crowds which attend
these hearings of the commission.
40 man should be refused a Job
n he is physically fit and wants to
york, resumed Mr.. Guggenheim. 1T
is up to the state or the federal gov
eminent 70 give it 10 him." he added
emphatically. Il think it is the
United states job 10 look after its
people III necessary the state should
raise the money by taxing persons
when they are dead SO that the money
may be provided TO look after the
living.
The workingman does not ask
merely an Increase in WAGES. He wants
something mOre-sOmething higher
lie wants comforts for himself and
his family and he should have them
and he Will get them"
Mr.. Guggenheim strongly endors 4
union labor. yet in practically the next
breath he declared that the policy OF
the great concerns which he dOmi.
mates is for the open shop and under
NO circumstances is their collective
BARGAINING between the men and their
employers.
Il think the workingmen are iusti
fled in organizing" he said even
though there are good and bad unions
like good and bad trusts The in
dividual worker will get nowhere IN
less ne organizes. He has the Same
right To Oreanize as the capitalist
They are human beings The can
italtst is too arbitrary when he has
too much power just as the laboring
man is"