South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-20
OFFICIAL IS LODGED IN
JAIL AFTER VIOLATING
SECTION OF LEVER ACT
DIR. STELZLE IN
BRILLIANT TALK
AT HIGH SCHOOL
Lectures on The Square
Deal and Answers Ques-
tions of Auditors.


Solutions of difficulties between
capital and labor must be brought
about los change i'm the individual
man rather than the establishment
of any particular system. no mat
ter how perfect economicauy or
philosophicaly, declared Charles
StelzIe in his public address at the
nigh school auditorium. Monday eve
ming The square Deal was the
subject he spoke upon
Mr.. Stelzle expressed in strong
sharp sentences the deductions ou
labor problems which he had ac-
Quired by years of experience AS 30
laborer member of "a union and "a
delegate To- 15 conventions of the
American Federation of Labor He
was brought up among the lOWlies-
of tenementS of New lorks east
side. lie was for ID number of
years in charge OF the labor temple
in the district i'm which Trotzky and
Americas worst foreign radicals
lived. He later served as an execu-
tive of the unemployment commit
tee under Mayor Muchelrs admin
lstratiOn of New York City.
What Nan Il.
This experience has taught him.
he declares, that il matters not so
much what a mans surrounding,
are but what is deep down under
his shirt
II might quote great economists
and expert writer's ON industrial
questions he said Their work in
ten years from now may be scrap
ped, but / say 10 the working man
and employers that their problems
Will not be solved until they have
more of that same high idedlism
which comes as Charac cter comes. and
character comes as religion grips
him
The whole labor question Is all
i'm giving the other fellow a square
deal" he said AT the beginning of
his address The speaker then show
ed how giving the other fellow
square deal could first Doe approach
ed by getting a grasp of the other
fellows difficulties. 10y seeing both
sides of the question under dispute.
Finds Mistake
'I thought that I knew all about
labor questions when ] was i'm
machine shop" ne explained. but
after I got ont I found that ] was
mistaken. / was too close 10 my
lob TO grasp the situation fully just
as every man is. who is IN similar
position
Turning upon the employer Air.
Stelzle then said that the labor union
was a force for good and lamentcd
the fact that there We're some i'm
telligent men who imagine that if
the labor union were wiped out the
question of labor would be solved.
The labor question would rather be
augmented without the union, ac-
cording TO the speaker. But the
strike. he had little regard for
when man is tied up in strike
he is lowered in his ideals TO the
level of a mob. / stand for square
deal for labor but by the same
token for capital also Labor FREE
Guently misUnderstands the boss or
employer misunderstood the
boss and thought that everEt hing
that came from the boss was crook
ed. Frequently when the WORKING
man goes home and fOrgets the
cares of the day, the boss stays in
shop and agOuIzes over the work.
MAY Have ANY system
Working men may have ans kind
q system they want Ii they exercise
judgment and discretion. " we have
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speakers representing opposing
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