Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-06
FRONT | ! ! PORCH
LABOR PEECH
IS 5 | J !; J IVERED |
.ss.+ u III :
Domination of Business and
Government by Any Class
Is Denounced. Hun
3 Believes i \ Az Collective Bar
gaining and Organization
Of Labor.

Marion, Ohio, Sept. 6.-Preaching
gospel of understanding between
employers and employees, Senator
Harding said in q Labor day speech
here that although he believed in
unionism and collective bargaining,
he opposed "labor's nomination of
business or government as deter
iminedly as he would oppose domina-
ton by any other class,
L3stiN Noluntary arbitration was declared
by the Republican nominee to be the
ideal solution of labor troubles, and
he advocated joint committees of en.-
tployers and employees, mot to run the
business but to promote mutual un-
|derstanding. He asserted that one
one could deny laborer, the right to
Quit his employment but that adjust
ment of labor problems should be on
the basis of justice to every one.
Senator Harding endorsed the
Cumming Esch law restoring the rail-
ways to private operation, and said he
could not approve the Socialist
Iplan," which proposed that the prop
critics be placed under control Of the
employee
Citing his own experiences as an
employer. the candidate said he never
|, had trouble with the employees of his
newspaper and added that although
print paper prices had increased his
iexpenses by an amount equal to $500
for each worker in his plant, none OF
them ever had suffered financially on
account of 1t.
Denounces Profitecring.
!! He assailed profiteering. declaring
that "stage assaults without action
had discredited the policy of the
Democratic administration toward
the profiteer. II. f.F
,P,ses ssSs ef ePt ssms tsas Senator
Harding II do not pledge you the
impossible, and, do not mean to sug-
gest the impractiable. / can only
. preach the gospel of understanding
practically applied. a
II believe in unionisrn, believe in
collective bargaining I believe the
1.-TWO have combined to speed labor to.
ward its just rewards. But i do not
mess or government any more than
Ibelleve that capital shall dominate
1--WE had our time at that, and WI
LEARNED the danger and ended 1t. We
! do not want to substitute one class
.ffor another; we want to put an end
3to$clA asses. 1. '2r: 5s$s :Sss:; S
/ 1--WE live in an era of collective en-;
IdeaSor. Capital led the way and La
jtpr's Organization was not only ma
Il kuIAt Outt'neCeaAAry.. " HAS MU1tx
more than; serve It's mem begshfp; =,
has riveted the though tfuI attention
,;of Anaerica to social Justice and
brought the fruits thereof. i.
"On this always significant holiday
4 I preferred to- talk before my fellow
Y atownsmens with whom + have worked
SO many years. wanted t0lookf yot
in the face, and ask for the sponsor
/, for that miserable old falsehoot
about dollar a day being enough fol
any workink Imam. II the author wa.
seeking to apply it to me, I think HI
must have meant a dollar an hour
You see have been a dweiler among
/ you for thirty -eight, years. Part O
that time was a wage Garner nysel.
all the time I have been laborel
and for more than thirty years
have been an employer as we'll as Y
,laborer, and man can't preach Sont
doctrine and follow another.
Wants Real Work. 5s
"Iet me renew that public utter
ance in which spoke of high wages
4 and said wished the existing .higl
/ scale to remain, on ore explicit con
lition-that for the high wage th'
] American workman shall give to hi
task the highest degree of efficiency
I, am not. advocating the driving
1 e., 4o1> n oF %ni1 : ',