The sun., 1916-11-23
w. 8. Carter Says Master Glass
Is Trying to Deprive Work
ers Of Power.
RELYING ON HIGH COURT
Locomotive Brotherhood Head
Speaks Before Political
Science Academy.

Oy w. y. carter, pTesiucHt VI VIC !
Brotherhood of Locomotive Ffremen and
Academy Of Political Science In Earl
Hall. Columbia University. To mako
compulsory. he said. was q
deliberate effort to deprive the working
people Of their power. and was but a
scheme Of the master class. |
Railroad employees. and all people
who work for wages. are opposed TO so
called compulsory arbitration" he be-
gan. because II Is hut an Ill concealed
effort on the part OF the master class to
labor Of Its economic power.
the guise of arbitration II is pro-
posed to tx wages and working condi-
by judicial compulsion.
"1f the lavish expenditure OF wealth
In the purchase Of advertising space IN
the public press. the princes or the
master class here in New York have
created a popular demand
and everywhere for a law that Will
impose involuntary servitude upon en-
ployees Of railroad corporations. then
the Constitution Is but a piece OF putty
In the judicial fingers OF the master
class. to be moulded as best accomplishes
Its purpose.
Fear Newlands Law.
The present Newiands act was
earnestly supported by representatives
Of railroad employees. Yet practically
all railway employees now look upon
the law with fear n suspicion. They
have learned by bitter experience that
arbitration under the Federal law IL not
fair to the employees. Through dis
astrous arbitration they have discovered
that this insidious class consciousness
OF business interests permeates our
whole social structure. They have
learned that in the selection OF arbl-
traitors only those OF the master class.
or sympathetic Herewith. are eligible.
and that n financial interest in the re-
suits OF an arbitration better fits a man
to serve as arbitrator.
Bloody wars have been fought to de-
eide disputations arising out of the d.
vinity OF our Saviour. Just az epuitably
could this religious issue be decided by
compulsory arbitration. Just as difficult
would II he to secure IN unbiased award.
A Christian arbitration board would
sustain n a Hebrew arbitration board
would reject the divinity Of Christ. and
the one would be Just as sincere as the
other"
Mr.. Carter referred to ''the last arbl-
tration conducted under the present
law" in which. he said. one OF the neu-
trail arbitrators, as IA trustee or director.
had great financial interest In the mat
ter he a to adjudicate." lie said tha
Federal Board of Mediation n Con-
Citation refused to disqualify him.
what Advertising DID.
"a public opinion has recently been
created through the lavish expenditure
Of money continued Mr.. Carter. by a
junta Of railway financial interests. with
th.fr aaI,,,artara tp th{a rtty chat
makes 1t almost impossible for railway
employees TO secure Justice through any
tribunal.
IN their efforts to convince III Amer
lean people that railroad employees
should not secure an eight hour day. We
have reason to believe that many mill
ions of dollars were expended In an at
tempt TO suborn the public press OF the
nation We have evidence that in this pub
licity campaign these railway financial
directors employed the advertising pages
OF more thar 5000 daily n more than
$4,000 weekly papers. Before these
millions were poured into the advertis-
ing profits OF these newspapers many
were friendly to our cause and n mi-
jority were at least neutral. Almost i'm
mediately the editorial opinions OF these
same newspapers voiced similar sen''-
ments TO those expressed In their ad-
vertising pages.
"In any arbitration OF a controversy
between railway employees and their en-
ployers the latter administer the award
What would be thought Of the effective
ness OF a court judgment enforced only
by one of the %litigants? Yet this IL how
arbitration awards are placed In effect.
What are intended to be wage increases
are juggled into wage reductions by rail-
way officials. whose authority in the mat
ter has never been questioned.
Relying on Court.
tration on the working people. even
though It be directed against the railroad
employees, will be frustrated by the SUI
preme Court OF this country. l don't be.
l,evc the Supreme Court of the United
states will permit an invasion of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton, even though 1t he for the Weserva-
ton If industrial peace"
William b.. Fitzgerald. general organ-
izer of the ~Amalgamated Association OF
Street and Electric Railway Employees.
had accepted an invitation to speak on
the arbitration OF street railway strikes.
but he failed to appear. Thomas J..
Parkinson, Legislative Drafting Re-
search Fund of Columbia University.
told of the constitutional aspects OF COM
pulsory arbitration. lie said II seemed
to be possible under the Thirteenth
Amendment to make laws prohibiting
public utility employees from striking.
william Lea Chambers. COMMISSIONS
Of the United States Board OF Mediation
and Cancellation. presided Mt the morn
ing session. His conclusion In an ad-
dress entitled american Experience in
Prevention or settlement of Labor Dis
putes' was that from the experience
| Of the United States Board OF Media
| ton and Cancellation 1t nay De fairly
deduced. so far as any value may he
attached to any personal opinion, that
the time and occasion has not yet ar
rived when the principle OF compulsory
| arbitration should be attempted by leg
islative enactment
Mr.. Chambers developed the idea that
mediation n %compulslon were In their
very nature antagonistic. "The melody
| Of Industrial peace" he intimated. might
best be brought about by dlsinterested
persons, acting under the guidance of
Federal authority. appealing to the feel
! Ing and sentiment OF the capitalist and
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