The Washington times., 1921-06-23
LACK OF CONTACT
CAUSE Of STRIKES,
LUMbERJACk SAYS
Personal Oet-Together Would
Combat I. w. W., He Tells
D. C. Rotary Club.

Only through. direct dealing, CO.
operation and heart-to-heart discus
sions of the problems confronting
them can capital and labor ever ex-
pect to get along in peace AMI har-
mony and keep productions at peak.
This was the message given the
Rotary Club IN the ballroom of the
willard Hotel yesterday afternoon
by Sherman Rogers, the picturesque
'1umberjack orator" who gives ms
residences as 'the State of WASH
inEton and Broadway New York
Rogers method of delivery and HIS
earnest and convincing arguments
made profound impre essian on tne
Rotarians, who cheered and appisud-
ed him.
Personal CONTACT NEEDED.
"There has got to be personal con-
tact between employers and employ
ees," said Rogers. "They have got
TO get together and stick together.
Capital must understand what the
working man Is up against and la
Dor must understand the problems
capital faces.
"They must meet on a common
middle ground, instead of pulling
and hauling against each other as
they have been for too many years
Labor is 90 per cent honest ana fair
and square and II tho employers
meet their men halfway and gatner
at the council table and tell them the
truth and treat hem as human De-
81 want to see this country on
100 per cent production basis. put
that can never come SO long as tnere
A.. n nd T.
iimg hostility between the working
man and his employer.
ITO my mind one of the banes OF
this country's Industrial life fs the
union labor walking deiegate, and
am convinced that capital Ia more
than half responsible for the activ-
tiles OF these business agents. When
the working men are rot treated
fairly and are In a state OF discomfort
they are In a receptive mood for the
inflammatory arguments and agita-
tions of the walking delegate and the
result Is a strike, too often followed
by bloodshed.
The employers OF this country
must awaken to the fact that IL they
do not take an Interest in their men
and talk with them. some one else
will and that someone else is not al
ways concerned with the best inter-
ests of the country. the employers or
the employees"
EMPLOYERS CAUSED I. w. WIS.
The "lumberjack orator then told
of his thirteen years experience in
lumber camps in Washington and of
the activities of the l. W. w. In them.
At one time. he said. sixty-eight of
these camps were 100 per cent 1. w.
w. and bolshevik. due mainly to the
refusal of the employers TO deal di-
rectly with the men. but that CO.
operation and a change of method
had finally converted the men to 100
per cent Americans.
The working man Is constantly
being bombarded by bolshevik pro-
pasanda and few people take the
trouble to tell them about the rights
of the citizen under the constitution.
the Integrity OF our courts and the
strength of the ballot" said Rogers.
The speaker said labor's position
was not always tenable and there
part of the working man in the
was as much to be desired on the
matter of cooperation and manifest
Ing the get-together spirit as from
employers.
Labor asks for a square deal and
II should give a square deal he
said, The idea of the working man
asking for forty-eight hours pay for
forty-four hours work is absurd. To
my way OF thinking. a man who would
compel another man to pay him for
four hours more work than he per-
formed Is nothing more or less than
thief. Labor has no reason for ex-
pecting anything IL has not earned"