Denver labor bulletin., 1917-11-17

purpose to do see that the conditions of labor
not rendered more by the war-but also that
shall to it that the instrumentaties by which
the conditions of labor improved not blocked
checked. That must do. THAT HAS BEEN
THE MATTER ABOUT WHICH HAVE TAKEN
PLEASURE IN CONFERRING FROM TIME TO
TIME WITH YOUR PRESIDENT, MR.. GOMPERS.
AND, IF MAY BE PERMITTED TO DO so,
WANT TO EXPRESS MY ADMIRATION OF HIS
PATRIOTIC COURAGE, HIS LARGE VISION AND
STATESMANLIKE SENSE OF WHAT IS TO
BE DONE. l LIKE TO LAY MY MIND ALONG
SIDE OF MIND THAT KNOWS HOW TO PULL
IN HARNESS. THE HORSES THAT KICK OVER
THE TRACES WILL HAVE TO BE PUT IN A
CORRAL.
Labor More Reasonable Than Capital
Now to stand the ground means that nobody
must interrupt the processes of energy, if the
interruption possibly be avoided without the ab
solute invasion of freedom To put it concretely,
that this: Nobody has right to stop the
processes of labor until all the methods of concilia
ton and settlement have been exhausted; and might
well say right here that I am not talking to you
alone. You sometimes stop the of labor, but
there others who do the same. AND BELIEVE
THAT AM SPEAKING OF MY OWN. EXPERT
ENCE NOT ONLY BUT OF THE EXPERIENCE
OF OTHERS, WHEN I SAY THAT YOU ARE
REASONABLE IN A LARGER NUMBER OF
CASES THAN THE CAPITALISTS
Il not saying these things to them personally,
yet, because haven't had chance But they have
to be said not in any spirit of criticism, because
would like to all the critics exported but in order
everybody both sides has got to transact business
and the settlement is impossible when both
sides want to do the square and right things. More
settlement is always hard to avoid when the
parties be brought face to face. differ with
a man much more radically when he isn't in the room
than I when he is in the room, because then the
awkward thing is that he come back at and
answer what I say. It is always dangerous for a
man to have the floor entirely to himself. And there
fore must insist in every instance that the parties
into each others presence and there discuss the
issues between them, and not separately in places
which have communication with each other.
Il always like to remind myself of delightful say
ing of an Englishman of past generation. Charles
Lamb. He was with a group of friends and he spoke
very harshly of some man who not present.
ought to say that Lamb suffered little and when
one of his friends said Why, Charles didn't know
that you knew so and So. 'Oh, he said, 4 don't. I
can't hate a know :. -
Don't Go OFF Into Separate Camps.
There is a great deal of human nature, of very
pleasant human nature in that saying 1t is hard to
hate a man you know. l must admit parenthetcally
that there some politicians whose methods do
at all believe in but they jolly good fellows,
and if only they would not talk the wrong kind of
politics with me 1 would be in love with them. And
it is all along the line in serious matters and
things less serious. We all of the same clay and
spirit, and get together if we desire to get to-
gether. Therefore my counsel to you is this:
LET US SHOW OURSELVES AMERICANS BY
SHOWING THAT WE DO NOT WANT TO GO OFF
IN SEPARATE CAMPS OR GROUPS BY OUR
SELVES, BUT THAT WE WANT TO COOPER
ATE WITH ALL OTHER CLASSES AND ALL