Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-06
Worker, However, Must
Give More In Return
For Pay Check.
ONLY WAY TO CUT
LIVING COSTS
Republican Nominee for President
Delivers Great Labor Day Address
Believes in Unionism But With
Settlement of Disputes Around q
Table Rather Than Thru Strikes
New Order Here to Stay.
Special to Times- Republican.

Special to Times- Republican.
Marion, o., Sept. 6.-Senator
Harding was the orator at the Labor
Day celebration in his home city to-
day, and delivered a notable address
on the relations between capital and
labor. Mr.. Harding says new order
is here and the old order never will
return. He declared In favor of the
present high wage scale but warned
the worker that he must give more
in return in order to maintain that
scale and at the same time bring
about reduction in living costs.
Mr.. Harding said in part:
Ladies and Gentlemen. my coun-
trymen Allt-Life is labor. or labor
is life, whichever is preferred. Men
speak, Of the labor issue as para
mount or imperious or critical-it is
always the big thing, because 1t is
the process Of al progress and at
tainment, and has been since the
world began. The advocate Of ex-
cessively- reduced periods OF labor
simply proposes to slow down hui
man attainment because labor Is the
agency of all attainment. II by
some miracle of agreement we could
reduce the hours Of labor to four
per day speak OF labor now in
the sense of that which is employed
for pay-the live. progressive, civil
ization- creating, progressive labor
would have to go on working twice
or thrice that time, because labor II
the ferment Of human development.
No one will challenge these general
truths, but we do have q conflict OF
opinion as to how labor shall be em-
ployed and the measure Of its COM
pensation.
It is impossible for me to ignore
the fact that 7. am the candidate OF
a great party for a place OF high
responsibility, but chose to mako
such utterances as are in my mind
on this always-significant holiday.
because preferred to talk before
my fellow townsmen with whom
have worked so many years.
Have to Be Square.
Neighbors have to be on tho
square with one another and SEQ
that deeds accord with words.
Somehow I wanted to look you in
the face and SIX for the sponsor for
that miserable old falsehood about
dollar day eing enough for any
nottingham. L the author was
seeking to apply it to me. I think
he must have meant dollar an
hour. You see, have been q
dweller among you for thirty eight
years. Part Of that time I was q
ge-earner myself-all that time I
have been a laborer-and for mope
than thirty years I have been an.
employer as well as laborer, and a
man can't preach one doctrine and
practice another.
No Party Indifferent.
Do not let any one ever tell you
that any political party is insensible
to the cause Of labor. Parties are
the agencies of government, and men
who assume public responsibility
are deeply anxious about the COM
mon veal. Demagogue or agitator.
most Of whom are agitating for the
y
all Of them belle the high intent and
genuine concern of parties and gov
eminent for the highest good for
tunes Of all the people. Frankly.
do not think any party is Indifferent,
or unmindful., The only difference
is in the program for the greatest
good. I want you to understand me
definitely. So far as I can be help
full. 1t shall be along the line of pro-
noting the good. fortunes of all the
American people. because in. COM
mon good fortune. made secure, we
have the field in which to work to
adjust the distribution Of rewards to
the highest conception Of fairness
and Justice.
Never Back to Old Order.
Let me renew that public utter
ance which meant to repeat. Noting.
the advanced ground reached thru
the sufferings and sacrifices of the
world war, said we contemplated
new level. new order, and would
never return to the old pre- war con-
ditions. No such return has ever
been recorded In ALI history. spoke
of the high wages, and said I
wished the existing high scale to re-
main, on one explicit condition-that
for the high wage, the American
workman shall give to his task the
highest degree Of efficiency. There
isn't any other solution. There isn't
any other way to keep wages high
and lower the cost of living to any
appreciable degree.
The menace of the present day Is
inefficient production. 1 am not adj
vocating the driving, slavish period
of toll, which saps mems energies
and Expresses the spirit, but I do adj
yocate honest, efficient return for
proper pay. 1 hold that the Stacker.
the loafer on the job. is not only the
greatest obstacle to labor's advance
nlent, but he is cheating his fellows
more than he does his employer. The
workman who deliberately adds to
costs robs fellow workman VINO