The Connecticut labor news., 1922-10-13

 ization And answered that there are
 two, the facts that people congregate and that people want As long as this Is so they must be given legal meth
 ods of remedying their grievances.
 And what they want now IS an or
 ganization such as trade unions
 If they are not granted illegal
 means will come Mir Hollis ended
 up by saying, There is no fourth
 alternative to slavery, anarchy and
 trade unionism."
 The next speaker was MT Marjori-
 banks. He began by saying that he
 sympathizes with the asperations of
 labor, but that he could not give any
 praise to the methods used in the
 United States and Great Britain to
 Great Britain labor is extensively or
 ganized and so powerful that it is able to paralyze the industries of the
 country by striking, something which
 it has not hesitated to do. On the
 other hand, in America it is not so
 fully organized and consequently not
 SO effective. In this country labor
 uses more legal methods than in Great
 Britain. MT. Marjoribanks then
 pointed out that there was a great
 boom in both countries after the war
 but that the strikes of the unions lost
 the wonderful markets which might
 have been opened up. Trade unions
 act on the selfshness and ignorance
 of others" he stated. They are based
 on two fundamental privileges. The
 first is that usually no one can be
 forced to do things, but unions can make anybody do anything. The
 other is that a group of men com o11 h1, 1o1 +o
 spire against their fellow country
 to do so To let unions exist would be nothing but turning back to gov ernment by groups of classes such as of the Pilgrims, Germany was being troubled by the rivalry of Catholics and Protestant, and Aristocrat and Bourgeoise. This is why they fled to America Germany was at that time government of groups and classes
 The third speaker was H. J. Voor- his, 1923, of the affirmative. He point ed out first that trade unionism is essential to the progress of civiliza- ton because 1t combats elements of disease and he thought inequality the one greatest cause of disease of mind anon gthe classes and stagnation among the masses. It tells the masses that they do not count except as parts of a productive process and leaves them without human status and hence with no interest in civiliza- Voorhis went on, "But the ideals of trade unionism attack this. They say men are the aim and end of civiliza- ton, that production that harms life is not production but destruction, and L1. .A This is so because civilization is the | of the physical, mental, and moral we'll being of men living together in society,""
 He then said that there are thou sands of examples in the world today | of city slums and factory commun- ities where over fatigue and insecurity | have taken away hope and stopped thought among the people because there was never strength left for thought It is these people unpro- tected in life who are the weak spots | in civilization. Trade unions can save them They alone can stop labor | competition which drives standards | lower and can show the indispensibil- l ity of labor.
 Hence" Voorhis said in closing, trade unionism is essential to the progress of civilization, even with all | it's selhshness and competition, be- cause 1t is fighting the battle of hut man law against economic law as the | ruling power over mems lives"
 S. H. Whedon, 1924, the second | speaker for the negative, said that civilization has taken three hundred million years to consummate, and that the instrument of the progress of this civilization has been a ruth less individualism, a merciless elim- nation of the weak and incapable. Trade unionism damns the use of that instrument, and so is not merely un- to the progress of civiliza- ion, but, as long as it exists, pre- dudes the possibility of the same Still. we need not worry" said Whe- lon in colsing, since through the ex- ,rcise of will pond of amoebas has become a French academy, we are lot afraid that temporary institu- ion can keep intelligence and ability : rom controlling the world" vas MT. Lindsey who showed that on lose examination 1t would be found hat industry and trade unions had 1 grown up parallel to each other, the alter as an essential factor to the | ormer He believed that there are t everal conceptions of civilization, but I le understood 1t to mean the increas- ( ng happiness, wisdom, and material ( welfare of the human race. With this r n mind he went on to say that 1n- | Iustry must be organized with a full f ppreciation of the human value and t hat this is the fundamental founda- r ion on which the society of the in $ ustrial class is based. Trade union | sm Is the essential factor in this in ustrial organization. In the ideal tate there would not be such things $ controversies between the unions nd employers, but rather a common tructure of which all the compon mt parts work together in harmony. We will never get such condition, owever," he continued, until the