Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-08

| n, Labor Sunday in his sermon at the evening service Sunday by preaching sermon upon the theme The Solu- 1 ton of Warfare Between Capital and ILabor-Industrial Democracy
 It was also the monthly musical i service at the church and the special music was by Richmond P Gardner ! or Jewett City, basso, a pupil for the Connecticut college. MT. Gardner was heard with much plea sure by the con gregation in three solos, singing first
 The Homeland (Hanseon) and Thy i, these at a later point in the sevrice 1 with Lord God of Abraham (Mend- ! elssohn). Mr. Gardner is to study the
 coming year at Ann Arbor university where he will Gtill be under the in struction of Professor Wheeler
 l The pastors sermon was as follows: rms Is time of great unrest in la 1 Dor conditions. Bitterness is preva- other has failed. We have substituted class warfare for national warfare. and many are uncertain which IS worse. Of course there i, no more sense in the one than in the other. The ants are wonderful creatures. in south America they are very high ly organized. They march in armies with their. leaders. and s,ranp1e and rend ana Iwlst until one side is vic torlous. Then they marcn away, while the human observer can see neither ryme or reason in their action. But humanity has no cause for ridicule for we do the same.
 It is difficult to get at the truth of the matter. If l talk with an employer
 of labor. the laboring man is lazy. care
 less, Indifferent. The union does not
 make for ability and efficiency. You can't depend upon their word when an
 agreement is made. and they will get you in a tight hole and then strike.
 The union man says that the en- ployer cares nothing for his employee,
 that he aims to get as much as he they grind men down as low as pos sible, and raise the price of their goods as high as possible.
 Of course there are different types Of employers. But the conscientious has to compete with the conscience less, and the latter set the standard I have never been able to join in the chorus of praise that has ascended to tickle the vanity of Andrew Car neGIe. l used to live in the steel dis trict where he operated. He was one of the founders of the speeding up process. Boss was pitted against boss and plant against plant. Bosses who were successful became superintend- ents, and successful superintendents' secured higher positions and higher salaries, but the mems wage remain ed the same. The men worked seven days in the week and averaged twelve
 
 times, and fourteen hours a day night times. The job of an African slave before the Civil war was comfort and ease beside this.
 The nnanufa cturers of the country have fought every single safety device and every child labor law ever intro duced. Not every manufacturer is guilty, but a powerful and influential body. When was in Pennsylvania a child labor law was put through but the glass industry was excepted. The cCal mining industry. the cotton fac tories have taken children. robbed them of their vitality. energy and brains and threw them to the scrap heap.
 When Harvey Wiley was making his fight for pure foods. one of my own good Baptist firms Curtice Bros. of Rochester, fought him tooth and nail | and he was finally busted from his po- sition because he was interfering with i the profits of manufacture
 A certain light and power company of western Pennsylvania had it's stock 1 bing small investors Then the price i to normal. One of my friends | got some of that stock at $9 and he is l now on easy street.
 If the big packing corporations de- | sire more money they simply add five cents, ten cents. fifteen cents to the i cost of a pound of meat. We pay it | grumbling. but not serious y.
 The only wea pon the Iaboring man | has is a strike. A strike stirs things 1 up. discomnodes the public, and the l aborer is damned ten thousand times. 1 because he is fighting for more i money.
 Inions. Some of their actions are in 1efensible- They are not interested in either more production or better pro- 1uction. but more money. Some of I,,.v --S I.%71 %l,,- course of the war. Commodore Van ierbilt, the great railroader. used to nave a saying "The Public be Dawn sd.' That is labor's attitude now.
 They are just as greedy and selfish lot as the moneyed men have been md no more.
 The union men-many of them-re- oice in it. Capital has had it's in lings, now it is our turn.
 Where is it going to stop? Prices Ire going higher because production is 1 being lowered. Higher wages mean higher prices. and then higher prices eQuiTe higher wages-for certain ;lasses of labor, While the grind on alaried men. office men, clerks. be- omes worse and worse.
 The interests of capital and labor re identical Prosperity should bene- il it both alike and depression injure 10th alike Industrial warfare is dead J to both.
 A new plan has been set forth. and his is the pith of my sermon tonight. industrial Democracy.
 The old attitude of kings and lords vas that they owned the land and . he people. It had to go. We have UT rulers now, but we elect them, and hey can stay during good behavior. {
 The old attitude of capital was IT, wn this plant. I am running it. am : aying the wages. If you don't like $ you can go elsewhere. The new at , itude is This is our plant. I furnish he capital and you furnish the labor. ' Ve will work it out together. z
 John D. Rockefeller is a fine, clean ype of Christian man as he saw : But he belonged to a f ast age-when all was fair in love ! nd war. His son. John D. Jr.. has he spirit of the new age They had T
 terrible time with the Colorado Coal ( Iron Company. Hell was turned ( pose in Colorado and many were f filed. John D. Jr.. went out there, 2 7ent into the mines, talked with min ' rs, went into their homes, and then f | =