New-York tribune., 1919-06-24
Majority of Working Glass
Safe From Influence bv
r radical Preachers of
Industrial Revolution
Fair Deal Only Is Asked
Employers Are Urged to Give
Chance for Advancement
and Improve Conditions

HARTFORD, Conn, June 23-Elberi
H. Gary, chairman of the directors oil
the United States Steel Corporation
drew an optimistic picture of Ameri
cas- Industrial future today in com
mencement address to the students OF
Trinity College. Labor is as keen as
capital to protect the institutions of
this country, he said, and there is no
prospect of decentralization. revolution
or retrogression.
Those who claim that large mum
oers of workingmen in this country
could be induced to participate in any
attempt to override law or order mis-
Judge and underrate them," said Mr.
Gary: THE great majority are op-
posed and of this majority there are
IN control the young men and the
young women, the pride and security
of the nation"
MIR. Gary declared that the way to
the top should be open to every work
er, but said that employees we're not
entitled to control of business or par
tlclpatlon in profits except to the ex-
tent of their assumption also of the
hazards of investment.
Can't Foresee Future
ut is not yet fully realized what has
happened to the world during the last
1--WE years; and in a much less de-
gree can it be conceived what will
occur during the next like period"
he said.
at is a time Of suspense and appre-
hension. We have been living in an
atmosphere of disorder and devasta-
ton. While it is impossible to meas
ure the full effect of these conditions
upon the human mind and disposition,
it is apparent that in many cases it is
degenerating and serious
We are entering upon an era of
readjustment and reconstruction.
1t is sufficient at this time to say that
there is a feeling of anxiety which
dstrubs the minds of human beings
generally; and it is of the highest
Importance that conclusions shall be
reached which will aid Yin restoring
confidence and serenity - decisions
based on principles of righteousness
and justice
and dissatisfaction, which has been
extensively advertised, has been
greatly exaggerated, especially as to
numbers affected; nevertheless, in
other countries to a large extent, and
IN this country to less degree, there
exists belief that radical changes in
governmental control and administra-
tlon are necessary.
Public Mind Abnormal
"Agitation and propaganda, which
are vicious and participated in by
chose who are totally unworthy, have
had some influence even upon we'll,
disposed persons. This is largely be-
cause of the abnormal conditions of
mind created by the military cata-
clysm which we have been passing
through the last four years or more.
1T is the solemn duty of every in
dividual, every aggregation of individ-
uals, to assist in bringing about sta
Bile conditions which are healthful-
morally, socially and economically;
and If this shall be the effort of all
it need not be feared there will be
experienced the overthrow of civiliza-
ton, the disregard of freedom and
liberty or the protection of life and
property, which occasionally an ILL
advised or evil-intentioned speaker or
writer proclams is now threatening
the world.
''In the discussion of this matter, for
the moment, the laborer may be re-
ferred to as covering both men and
women whose principal work is physi-
cal. They are the ones who are relied
upon by the reckless, iniqutous, self
appointed disturbers of peace to assist
IN movements to override law and or