The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-02-06
LABOR WORLD VI ] | EDITOR !.
DELIVERS ! SERMON
Speaks. on Function of Labor
Movement In Superior
Church.

The following report of the ad-
dress of Edwin T. Harris last Sunday
evening at the Congregational church
In superior Is taken from the columns
of the Superior Evening Telegram:
The laborers Of the world will be-
come masters Of production instead
of the victims Of an Industrial sys-
tem,~ through organization, declared
Edwin T. Harris, editor of The Labor
World, in an address before a large
audience at the Pilgrim Congrega-
tlonal church last night. He spoke
en- 1.-THE Social Function of the La
Dor Movement"
The two million union workers in
the United States are 10 per cent Of
the laborers engaged in non-agricult-
ural pursuits, Harris said.
Before any other organizations
have done so, the labor organizations, -
he declared, have championed and
will continue to champion equitable
homestead laws, postal savings banks.
popular election of senators, the par
cells post system, safety appliances,
the eight-hour law for federal en-
ployes, the report of accidents, a bu-
reau of labor; a: child labor bureau,
free public schools, free text books,
sanitary working. conditions, arbitra-
ton, labor; statistics compensation
laws, the abolition OF "a system where
laborers must buy. Jobs, and in favor
of free public employment offices.
Man Preys. on. Young: =
Man is"the only being who:*will
prey on his young Mr.. Harris said
in condemning child labor. mo kitten
ministers tos'a cat, no chick ministers
to a hen, yet men exploit children.
Sixty thousand children are employed
In the textile; industries Of the SOUTH
The present strike in Atlanta, Georgia
Is a strike against child labor, ~:
Few Commercial clubs go on rec
ord as opposed to child labor" j.: =,
collective bargaining" Harris said
Is the working principle of organized
labor. Thousands of labor Journals
are teaching labor Justice. The aver
rage laborer;;*he said, knows more of
economies and: sociology than the
average business man. The law dis
eliminates against labor in making
the boycott Illegal and the blacklist
legal. t.: g.. - 49,. ~, ::
Support for the child labor bill
which will soon come before congress,
was urged. e.: =; < -. -.
Violence Retards Labor Gains.
In referring to violence during
strikes, Mr.. Harris said:>:i p:
violence during strikes has never
been authoritativefy advocated by the
American Federation of Labor: When
unions have been Suilty of it, it has
been the spontaneous indignation
against unbearable, conditions. EN-
ployers *do0not fear the violent labor
unions. 1T is theasane deliberate Ia
Dor leaders they fear" .-.'' 49,
That spies are hired by large en-
ployers to join union to incite to vio-
lence, and keep their employers in
formed as te>who the deliberate think
ing men of the union are, was the
assertion Of Mr. Harris, who declared
that he had seen such "a letter, while
an employee Of q large corporation.
Discussing the prohibition problem
Mr.. Harris said: go $50:
THE Tabor unions; oppose drastic
prohibition laws because of the large
number Of: men who would be st1rown
out of *employn ent!l Laber Journals
have always; however, supported tenn
perance. Members OF the Brewery
Workers: are a clean, temperate lot
of men, and not drunken sets sas
many are led to believer In parts sot
Germany, labor papers refuse Ito ac-
cept liquor advertisenfentst'' r.. 81:
"Organized labor" Harris said; lis
progressive: Intelligent; powerful l,: Its
trend is ;:irresistibly toward; better
things. Labor will soon be-. emanci-
pated, and will inherit the, EARTH
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