The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
Harding's Salve To Labor Stirs
 GOmpers Ire
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| CeIe III not wanting the un1OnS Qe-
 stroyed, but we cannot indulge in any tunult of applause over this late
 profession of faith, because the unions themselves have saved the day.. and
 theX have done this in spite of the dents leading officials and advisers. 1 For their existence today they owe no thanks to the administration. | "1t is difficult to find in the-in- functions brought by the Harding l Department of Justice against the miners and the railroad workers any great effort to conserve the forces of organized labor Those whose mem
 ories are not too short will recall that when the Presidents attorney general secured his injunction against the railroad workers that atorney- general said to the court, so long and to the extent that I can speak for the Government of the United States l will use of the power of the Gov ernment to prevent the labor unions 1 of the country from destroying the | open shop"
 Here's what President Harding is reported as saying about "open shop" plans at Gardner, Montana, on Friday night:
 President Harding has served notice on some of the influential leaders of the Republican party that he, as titular leader of the party and prob able nominee at the next national con- vention, will not stand for an "open shop" plank in the 1924 platform.
 This was the interpretation placed today by friends upon the Presidents remarkable speech last night at Helena in which he dealt with the capital and labor problem with great deal more frankness than has char acterized his previous utterances upon this controversial subject, ,.
 It is an open secret that the move ment for an "open shop" and Flaw and order" declaration in next years Re publican platform has gained consid- erable headway in some influential sections of the party One of the leaders in this movement has been Gen. Charles c. Dawes of Chicago, and he has been supported by many big manufacturers. During the Hard ing trip to Florida last spring General Dawes discussed it with the President and with newspaper correspondents on numerous occasions.
 MT. Harding was noncommittal at that time, but in his. Helena speech
  ton of the party and his utterance is expected to act as check on the l in general.
 "I am quite aware" said the Presi- | dent, "that there were some who l imagined before the present adminis- 1 tration was voted into responsibility, | that it was going at least to acquiesce if not definitely sympathize with pro- jects for the dehation of labor and the | overthrow of labor organizations 1 Nothing has been further from the | of the administration than 1 any thought of destroying the right l of either capital or labor to organize and each to deal in it's organized ca pacity.
 "In this connection let me say frankly 1 know there were some ele ments which hoped for a great and decisive conflict between organized and organized labor.
 "On the capital side were those who hoped the administration would lend tseN to their program of breaking loWh organized labor and sending it pack to the era of individual bargain ng for the individual job
 "On the labor side were those who loped for exorbitant demands and an lllltuQe. or unCO1nDTOn1S1nS 1nSlStenCe,I o force the naturalization of some ,f our most important industries and services.
 "We have saved the nation from he extremists of both sides"
 Furthermore, MT. Harding declared, ( n effect, that those industrial leaders vho believe wages must come I town" to their pre-war status are loomed to disappointment Wages the world over went to. new ( igh levels" said the President. There was 1evelling up from the | over strata and downward from the ( igher On the whole the results t marked long advance on the road S o equity and justice as among all l dement's of the community. f "We know that the advances thus I fected in the direction of social jus ice and economic equity will not be without determined 'op- osition. There were those who re- arded the injustices of the old order S inevitable, and mistakenly assumed hat by the simple process of the de- ation of labor the old relationships ould be soon reversed.
 Let me tell you we shal lnot gol