The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-23

| which your members become asso.
ciated. are worthy, and hence Your
organization is worthy. The aims Of
your organization are -considera bic en-.
hanced blythe fact that they could
| have been secured no other way.
Labor contributes to the prosperity Of
the country and whatsoever induces
to a nations welfare is most worthy
of commentator.
1T is not the office or the occupa-
| tion that dignifies the office. The
honest, Industrious man is honored
among u.s. whether he works with his
hands or with his brains, because he
is an indispensable factor in the ma
tion's progress. In honoring and up
holding labor the nation is strength
ening its own hands as we'll as pay
ing tribute to worth. A contented
and happy working class are the best
safeguard of the republic, while ill
paid and discontented laborers would
| be a constant menace and reproach
to the country.
Labor has it's sacred rights as we'll
as its dignity. In our days there is
a. universal, tendency towards organ
ization. In union there is strength
in the physical, moral and social
word, and just as the power, and ma
jesty of our republic are derived from
the union of the several states so
do, men perceive that the com bina-
tion Of human forces in the economic
world can accomplish results which
could not be obtained by any indi-
vidual efforts. When corpora tions
! ic hot
chanics and laborers should follow
their example. If it is just for the
one, it is also just for the other.
"There should not be and there
need not be any conflict between
capital and labor. as both are neces-
sary for the public good and the one
depends on the cooperation of the
other: A contest between the -em-,
ployer and the employed isaas unreal
.sonable and as, hurtful to the social
body as a war between the head and
the hand would be to the physical
body. -. >, f.
''Whoeyer; tries to SOW discord be-
tween capital and labor is an enemy
of the social ORDER and every means
should therefore be discontinued that
sustains the one at the expense OF
the other.
"a fair recompense for the labor
Of hand and brain is what every just:
man desires and those who succeed
in establishing lasting, friendly rela-
tions between cap.tal and labor will
have achieved the mightiest and most
virtuous work ever given the children
Of men.
"If capital and labor could work
hand in hand for the betterment OF,
mankind, if the golden rule were
practiced, DO unto others as you
would have others do unto you oh.
what contentment and happiness it
would bring to the fhomes of Amer
ica."
E. G. Hall.
e. G. Hall, president of the State
Federation of Labor, responded to the
address of welcome. In 1905 he had
attended as a delegate the labor con-
vention held in Brainerd and it's at
tendance included 162 delegates rep
resenting "a unions from ten cities
and towns.
Today there were in attendance at
the Brainerd convention over 400
delegates from 200 unions. represent
ing 81 cities and towns.
Labor in the last months had much
to contend with and the showing OF
delegates at this thirty-ninth annual
convention was concrete evidence OF
the interest manifested in the organ-
ization and the sincere desire to solve
I its problems. :,
James C. Catten.
James C.. Batten of the United
States vocational board sfor service
] men and women. a delegate from the
Federated Employees, addressed the
convention on the work of the gov
ernment in the reconstruction and re-
habilitation of the victims II the late
war. In this Tenth district 5000 men
were in training, and 65 per cent OF
the men eligible have been placed.
BY fall they expected to have $4,000
men in training; or about S6 per cent
of the total disabled soldiers in Dis
trict No. 10. Many are in agricul-
tural colleges.
Reports Distributed.
Reports Of President Hall, secre-
tary Lawson and the executive COM
mittee were ordered , distributed
among the delegates. The morning
session adjourned to 2 p. m.
Monday afternoon the, delegates
will be given an automobile tour in
and about Brainerd and at ISIS p. m.
unions will parade in review before
the convention. ~ 49, 5.-f@st}
Resolutions. y. - -
, The committe, on resolutions in.
. c1udes:
: Henry Pereault, vice president, Du.
1uth; w. ]. butcher. musicians. Du.
luth; William Mahoney, Trades as
sembly. st. Paul; J.. p. Donovan.
Typographical union, st. Paul; G. b.
u: oapher, meat cutters. Minneapolis:
I II. c. Pratt, Trades assembly, Crook.
ston; N. =. Dundin, Carpenters Dis-
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