Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-12
CAPITALIST
ULSTER FIGHTS
FOR LABORERS
Most Trusted Employer in
North Ireland Is Thomas
Andrews.

BELFAST JJune 1.-THE most trusted
labor man in northern Ireland today Is
a capitalist lie is Thomas T. Andrews,
bank president, owner OF blk linen fac
tories and minister Of labor in the Ulster
government.
For the last four months. in the most
difficult conditions that industrial Ulster
has gone through, he has kept the peace
/ "a smiling, good tempered peaee-be-
tween capital and labor in Ulster The
big fnancier rather fears him, but the
unions leaders go 10 him for help and
advice.
His parliamentary secretary is a hawk
eyed young man named Thomas II. Cor
don one Of the most advanced Of the
younger labor men in Ulster-keen, clever,
far seeing and determined.
But" said Gordon to me, "I some
times think that Andrews is the quick
moving person and that I am the Tory,
the brake on the wheel. Andrews does
not represent labor-he champions 1t"
THEORIES
OF GORDON.
So asked this young capita!istic labor
minister what he really aimed at. He
looked very harmless as he sat il his
plain office In his worn blue serge SUIT
he might have been an ordinary clerk
had one not noticed his fine head and
quick, alert eyes,
"My sole explanation is he said,
that was brought up among the work
ers My ancestors have lived in Ulster
for three hundred years and have been
employers Of labor throughout that time
And the ancestors Of a number of my
workers worked for my forebears two
hundred and fifty years age. We have
never had a labor dispute. All through
that time. from one generation to another,
we have always been happy family.
Here IS my theory: 1t may seem chils
dish to you. But believe that the EN-.
ployer cannot prosper in the long run
unless his workmen are we'll off and
happy.
Bring It down to first principles.
like to know that a man comes to work
well fed and happy. Suppose that he
wants n couple of slices Of ham and
couple of eggs for his breakfast;I want
him 10 have It. If times go hard-so
hard that he can't afford it-then hta
deprivation hurts the employer more than
it does the man.
REALLY 4
PARABLE"
This is really parable. IN Belfast
in the past two years we have fallen from
great boom period to one OF the deepest
depression. Trade has fallen not by de-
grees but by landslides. Employers have
been seen themselves thrown from -
prosperity almost into bankruptcy.
Their first notion, naturally, is to re-
duce wages speedily and largely. That
Is where / d!sgree with them. Their fu-
lure interests are bound up with those OF
their workmen. And don't want to see
the workmens good breakfast suddenly
reduced.
LET me tell 70 uthis: I have in this
room daily on an average half a dozen
Populations Of workers from various
unoins. Not a day passes but what
have several representatives Of employers
associations to see me. l get both sides
continuously.
"And can say this I have never found
the men anything but absolutely reason
able When l get them here and explain
to them what the situation is l have
found them prepared to accept it.
LABHRERS FACE
FIREBRANDs.
But, of course, they have to face their
firebrands, and if one asks them for con-
cessions one has to offer them something
in exchange.
"On the other hand. I have never had
any difficulty in making employers realize
the concessions their men are making,
and | think on the whole they have acted
generously in return.
II believe that within the next two
years Ulster will give an object lesson to
the world in the way capital and labor
can work hand in hand
Both sides in this bad period must
make sacrifices But so far as | can see
1t the sacrifices Will be equal II We
must give something UP ! will see that
the workmen's breakfast Is not reduced
too suddenly or without cause.
''And II the workman suffers the en-
ployer must suffer equally at least. Gem
munity Of this kind must be hte root OF
our industrial system II We are going to
make Ulster the stale We aim at
GOOD SEWS-FOR WHOM:
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