Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-13

who is as great lover OF peace as
any man in tho world: but did not
send him on peace mission; sent
him to take part In conference as
to how tho war was to be won. and
he knows. as know. that that Is tho
way to get peace. if you want 1t for
moro than few minutes.
"All Of this is preface to the con-
ference that i referred to with regard
to what we are going to do. If We
are true friends of freedom-our own
or anybody elses-we will see that the
power OF this country and tho pro-
ductivity OF this country is raised to
It's absolute maximum and that abso-
lutely nobody is allowed to stand in
the way O., 1t.
MUST STAND TOGETHER
UNTIL JOB IS FINISHED
when l say that nobody is allowed
TO stand in the way, l don't mean that
they shall be prevented by the power
OF the government. but by the power
of the American spirit. Our duty. IL
we are to do this great thing and show
: America to be what we believe her to
! be. the greatest hope and energy OF
the world. then must be to stand to-
1
| finished.
While we are fighting for freedom
we must see, among other things. that
labor Is free: and that means q num-
Der of interesting things. II means not
| only that we must do what we have
declared our purpose TO do. see that
the conditions of labor are not rem
dered more onerous by the war. but
Il lao
instrum cntali;ics by which the condi-
| tions Of labor are improved are not
blocked or checked. That we must do.
That has been the matter about which
l have taken pleasure In comforting
from time to time with your prcsi-
dent. Mr.. Gompcrs And, IL I may
press my admiration OF his patriotic
courage, his large vision and his states
! manlilie sense of what is TO be done.
I like to lay my mind alongside of I,
| mind that knows how to pull in har-
| ness The horses that kick over the
traces will have to be put in corral.
! Now to stand together means that
| nobody must interrupt the processes
OF our energy. if the interruption can
| possibly be avoided without the alb
solute invasion of freedom. To put 1t
concretely, that means this: Nobody
has right TO stop the processes of
labor until all the methods of concilia-
ton and settlement have been ex-
haustcd, and I might as we'll say right
here that am not talking to YOU alone.
| Tou sometimes stop the courses OF
labor. but there are others who do the
same. and l believe that ] am speaking
of my own experience not only but OF
! tho experience OF others when ! say
that YOU are more reasonable in a large
number of cases than the capitalists.
HASN'T HAD CHANCE
/ TO SAY THINGS PERSONALLY
81 am not saying things to them
! personally yet, because l haven't had
chance. But they have TO be said
not in any spirit OF criticism. But
| In order TO clean the atmosphere
and come down to business every
/ body on both sides has got to trans
| act business and the settlement is
/ never impossible when both sides wan,
| TO do the square and right things
! Moreover. settlement is always Ina rd
! to avoid when the parties can be
/ brought face to face. can differ with
a man much more radically when lie
isn't In the room than ! can when he
! is in the room. because then tho awll
ward thing IL that he can come back
at me and answer what I say. il /!
always dangerous for Il man to have
! the floor entirely TO himself. And
! therefore, VIC must insist in every in.
stance that the parties come into each
others presence, and there discuss tho
issues between them.
Therefore my counsel to you Is
! this: Let us show ourselves Amcri-