The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-18
BOSTON UNION WORKERS PREACH SUNDAY SERMONS WHILE PASTORS TAKE A WHACK AT BUILDING JOBS

VO4AD94vO OVOO land and of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal church in New York city.
 Woman Breaches.
 Miss Mabel Gillespie spoke i'll the Roslindale Congregational church at the morning service on "Thc Golden Rule as Applied to Industry and La bor Disputes." She said labor really favored applying the Golden Rule to disagreements between employees and employers rather than the use of strikes and violence. Labor disputes could be settled much better by the application of this rule than by any other way, she believed.
 Strike Holiday.
 "What wonderful thing 1t would be if we could have a Io-year strike holiday" said Chairman George w. Coleman of the Old South Forum Later Rev. Richard w. Hogue of Philadelphia, secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy, the speaker of the afternoon, declared that if MT. Coleman had completed his thought he would have wished for "a Io-year cessation of strikes through l the cessation of the cause of strikes, including lockouts." He praised the cooperative movement which he said had reached a high development in | England, and urged the establishment l of a Labor party in America In reply to question from the | floor as to whether the general public would not be "stung" as result of | cooperation between labor and cap | ital. Mr. Hogue remarked that the public had a good deal of stinging 1 coming to 1t because of it's past in | difference
 Basis Is Sympathy.
 At the Second Church in Boston, A. J. Philpott spoke on the Interna- tional Typographical Union, of which, he said President Warren c. Har- ding is a member-a union which dates back to the first printing office the 18th century, since which time all | shop organizations in printing offices in the English speaking world have been known as chapels.
 MT. Philpot said: The whole sec ret of trade union vitality and strength lies in craft fellowship-the fellowship of the craft. It is based on the most powerful and enduring of all human forces-sympathy-a sympathy that Is intensified into fel- lowship in every line of work and en- deavor. The best analogy can make is that of Christianity itself, based on love and sympathy, which the Roman government and Roman logic could not understand, but which eventually triumphed over all the forces of op- position employed by the Roman em- perors and Roman society.
 Craft fellowship is kind of fel- lowship which no one can completely understand who hasn't been through 1t. It IS the fellowship of work. It is more of the senses than of the un- | erstanding. You cannot measure 1t nor can you reduce it to a percentage | basis on any scheme of statistics, or reasoning. Yet there 1t is-a stub born human fact. The only place the | workmen can find this, in it's genuine form, IS in their trade unions. There they find a fellow sympathy that is intensified by similarity of work and thought. Every trade, every business, and every profession developed this characteristic in it's members and we call it the psychology of the trade or profession. The world ought to be mature enough to understand the pos sibilities-the constructive possibilit- ies-of this great force in human na- ture and utilize it for the advantage and welfare of the entire community
 "If little more of fellowship were introduced into business and indus trial relations there would be less need to preach the doctrine of efic- iency."
 Control by Workers.
 ] Richard Kitchelt, speaker for the Central Labor Union, gave an address : at the Horace Memorial Church ir Chelsea at night.
 | "All Christian denominations" said the speaker, 'have adopted programs l of industrial reforms which are being - opposed by big business interests, by employers and their associations, anc