The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1919, Page 3

“TY,—LANGLEY & SCHLA- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1919 5 EMPLOYER MUST RECOGNIZE RIGHT OF WORKER TO ORGANIZE; UNIONS MUST GIVE PUBLIC BLIC CONSIDERATION Former President William Howard Taft Recommends Policy of | Give and Take as Solution For Labor Troubles—Would Have Progressive Producers and Conservative Trades Leaders Map Out Program Which Will Prevent Industrial Upheaval By HARRY P. BURTON N. ELA. epocal New Haven, Conn., Nov. right of employes to organize, s: Correspondent 11—Employers must recognize the ays William Howard Taft. Employers must realize that employes “have as full a right to live, and as full a right.to be heard as to the question of what they Il receive and the terms, of their employment, as employers have to earn reas mable dividends on their investments.” Taft said this in his first public interview on the great indus- trial unrest now seething throughout America. é He added that property rights will survive, that society will resume its normal prewar course, and that, thrift will continue to be rewarded by success and laziness punished by distress. The former President analyzed the labor crisis in all its phases, | economic and political, and compared it with the situation abroad. He took up in detail the various stands of Elbert H. Gary, Sam- uel Gompers, William‘ Z. Foster, John Fitzpatrick and John L. Lewis in the steel and mine strikes. He took no pains to spare either side, but struck out wherever he thinks blows are needed. WAR'S DISTURBANCE CALLED COLOSSAL In his office overlooking Yale campus, Taft began: “The war which, has just closed was one which may only be described as colossal, with the disturbances in business and in economic conditions as much greater than have followed previous wars as the forces engaged and destructive agencies used and losses incurred were greater than in any previous war. “Phe mechanics of this war were more important than in any previous war, and this’ soon developed the ut-| ter ‘dependent » of each country upon’ its labor, skilled and unskilled, to’ supply the absolute fighting necessi-| ties at front. “The war ina certain degree, | indeed, fought in the workshops of the contending countries, | “This indispensable part which | manual labor played in the war did; not, of course, escape the attention of, workingmen, and it gave them such 2 se of their power that, in case of, grievance, fancied or real, they | were anxious to exercise it. “The high wages they received were’ a contributing factor in the high price they had to pay for living, and while L think wages probably increased iu greater ~proportion than the cost of living among workig men wus could ,through trades unions and com- binations, exert the power of whi it) Ihave spoken, it nevertheless, lett them restless and anxious to use their power to improve their conditions and to increase their share in the joint product of labor and capital far above what it had ever been before, 1 “Such a*movement for a constant increase in wages, of course, met re- sistance. That's what has produced r unrest and strikes, but these kes are not confined today to a desire to better sterms of em- ployment. In the present: highly sen- sitive condition of labor and in its new conception of-its own EBORtANEE: many workmen seem glad to > any difference between them and their employers which they can make into an issue, “On the other hand we must recoz- nize that employers, some of them, haye made enormous profits; athers; good. profits and that business has heen generally yery prosperous, Doubt-} less ‘profits have been exaggerated in- sofar as the reports of them, have been made to labor, But by these re- ports, in part true and in part unsus- tained, labor has heen made to think it is not getting its proper share, that it should use pressure and the strike, if need be, to increase its share mer ands and proportion. “Our close relation to other coun- tries, too, has brought us into contact! with (Socialism and) Social kts)” and: we haye found to our surprise that; ordinary Socialists on the other side in France, Italy, and in most’ other, continental coutries, are a yery con- servative class, and that the real rad. ieals there are the extreme Socialist find ‘anarchistie type, of whom Bol- shevism hgs taken a complete hold. “We hdve had enough of these ele- mentsextreme ‘Socialists and anar- chists—come ‘into this country and Fat i Adter Sich meal sae QU eat one EATONIC YOUR STOMACH'S SAKE) and get full food value and real stom- ach cdmfort. Instaatly relieves heart- burn, bloated, gasay feeling, STOPS acidity, food_repeating and: stomach misery. AIDS digestion; keeps the | stomach sweet and pure. EATONIC is the best remedy and only costs magento feat catistaction guneantoed diene’ ee Pletwe call and try #6 Finney’s Drug. Store, Bismarck. N. D oS _-$10,00 CASH PRIZES Langley & Schlabach will give $5.00 for two best ears Dent corn and $5.00 for best two ears Flint corn mailed or delivered to their office on or before 3:00 P. M., November 15th, 1919. Corn must be Burleigh County | grown during present year.) PE AND CONFORMITY CONSIDERED. Judges: Bur- leigh-County Agricultural Agent and two disinterested parties to be named by ‘him. Results will be published Monday, Novem- ber 17th.. Send your corn right in. BOOST BURLEIGH COUN- BACH.—Advt, ~ WILLIAM HOWARD Tar T ‘preach their propaganda to float a lot of their ideas among our — laboring people, Seeds sown in this way spro% quickly and especially in soil already stifred I pvances against employ- ers and a tisfaction at reported prof of capitalists without a com- mensurate with labor, STRIKE LAWLESSNESS BREEDS SOCIALISM AND RADICAL 'MIE+ (ORTES y strike in which Jawle: and it is difficult to haye a without tl a seed-plot for the growth of Socialism and more rad- ical theories, ‘There has been in the minds of many the idea that a ‘social millennium was at hand and deldy and disappointment in its coming con- tributed to the general unrest, “I have hoped that th feeling ‘might-be abated by conferences and aggeoments laying down reasonable ‘principles for collective bargaining and the recognition of unions betweca conservative labor leaders of wide- Spread influence and broad-visioned liberal employers. I do not despaii of such an alleviation now, although |, 1 think Mr. Gompers and his associ- ates in yielding to Foster and Fitz- patrick in the- begining. the — steel strike, and in the initiatién of the} coal stri id in the threat of the firemen’s strike, accompanied by it demonstration which many of _ the steel strikers thought ‘was the initia- tion of a) Bolshevist-Soviet regime, have aroused ‘the fear of the country and have nade the great majority ve- sent the ‘stand and deliver’ policy of these great unions which would exer- cise ‘their powers to-make the whole: public suffer in order to compel the public in Some way or other, unex- plained make employers meet. the demands of their employes, GOMPERS RIGHT, BUT LOST AD-} THH| SOUND BY QUITTING: ROUND TABLE’ = “IT have thought in the_controversy between Judge Gary and the majority of the employers’ group on the one hand, and Mr. Gompers and the pub- lie group on the other, in respect to thé principle of collective bargaining that the latter were in the right; but it has seemed to me Mr. Gompers lost the advantage of his position“by the drawing from the round table confer- ence with a threat, by giving counten- ance to the stecl strike and by seem- whole public ore getting so ‘tired of. T mean the pian of taking the entire United States by the throat witout almost mediation, without arbit almost without discussi labor, however extravagant and how- ever unreasonable, “Now, the American public are 2 long-suffering -people, but they: won't Stand everything and when they re- act with a great deal of emphasis, and in their indignation and general desire to secure freedom, they are not disposed to make nice distinctions in reference to the conercte issues be- tween labor and capital. That atti- tude of the public today is ‘ie result of what seems to me to be the errors} cia “ snoss | 1 ~| Headache, Neuralgia, Earache, Tooth- BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE teks Have you a patriotic muse? | Are martial songs bursting for re- lease within you? Then write them to the music of Arthur Pryor’s new “American Le- and blunders of policy on the part of; the leading labor leaders, “I realize the labor leaders fear to! lose their power if they advise a wise! iconservative course and do not atlow the remists in their ranks to force their hands. But it would be most) refreshing if the labor leaders too a different view and for once stood up against the extremists and mau a fight with their followers. LIBERAL EMPLOYERS AND CON: SERVATIVE LABOR LEADERS SHOULD GET TOGETHER “Nothing would ‘aid the cause of; labor So much; nothing would secure’ the respect and recognition by broad-| minded employers so, completely, | “The solution of the difficulty lies, in my judgment, in the coming to- xether—tor purposes of discussious and settlement—of the liberal employ. and conseryative labor leader each strengthening the other with his own people and working out a rela-| tion which shall not banish differ- ences, for differeneces must arise at times, but) miniminzing the acuteness of th differences by a mutual con- fidence springing from a mutual fair- ness of attitude and an ability to see the other side, “Tk current is now running, so far as the public-at-large is concerned, against the trades miions because of the abuses of power by some of these. The hourbons among employers are king advantage of tiis, and hope tor a radical weakening of power among labor unions. “Phere is no doubt the whole public Was thoroughly aroused by whatever y Was extended by labor to’; the des rting. policemen who furnish-; ed the opportunity for the Boston riot. The recent results of the Mass achuetts election and the joy with | which they were received all over the! country show this. “The American Federation of Labor ; useful as this organization is within! its whole field and conservatively it has been managed in many respeers has made a serious bhinder in stick- ring its nose into controversies between! policemen, firemen, mail carricrs, ani! other government and state employes; on one hand, and governmental auth- {ority on the other hand. ‘The Mass- achuetts affiliation between the Bos teu police and the American Feder. tion of Labor has been condemned an unprecedented political jin the old Bay State, “The attitude of Mr, Lewis and tha Bituminous Coal, Min Union ig an- other instance of an outr: ‘age upon the sense 6f justice and the free spirit of | the Americ n-people, ‘The steel strike Js another, with its Bolshevistie | sup- port by hordes of non-English-speak- ing foreigners, who don’t know ou: USES OF ASPIRIN TOLD BY ‘BAYER’ Bayer. 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Stern & Cu MY British Copyright Secured i ion March” ani you may win $100 | nd fama i Rryor, who is a famous wartime band leader and composer, has writ- ‘ten the “American Legion March” for Soa acta aaa aa a OTTO C CCT CCC OTOL institutions and who don't care for! them, | UNIONS LIKELY TO. RECEIVE 4 BLOW FROM WHICH & WILL BE HARD “If the labor ing out the p COVERY ery Insist on fight- pai issue it will be doubtless a hard issue and the public will suffer thereby. But the Ameri-| can public has made up its mind to fight it out, and Jabor-ought to realize t is not too late for labor to re- ¢ the blunders already made, but if the s goes on to fight to the finsh. the Jabor unions will receive « blow in America from which it will take them a long time to recover. “IT wotld deeply regret this, for T 4m in favor of labor unions, and when they are wisely and vonseryatively conducted they aid labor and can de made, in proper ways, to aid employ- ers. But such a fight to the finish as that now threatencd will leave — to them no poss ble middle cou The! bourbons among the emplo: who} unionism will rejoice and take advantage of the fight to keep jin i the Daily ibune and it is here pub- | lished for the first time. It is dedicated to the men whose re- presentatives are now in convention| nneapolis. tress, defeat and disposition to look | to someone else for a livelihood. I'm an optimist; I believe in’ pro- gress and I helieve in social progress | Moa real optimist. is not a man who! that great changes for the be ained all at once, Th utily slow; they come step y id While this war has shak- en up society so as to make a longer step possible, it has not changed men, and it has not changed women, and it has not changed their mode of living} nor their tastes, nor their . personal} aims and ambitions, nor the social standards, nor the business standards nor the operation of the usual stimuli upon human nature. “Therefore I look to a récurrence after a time of a society better than the pre-war society in that there shall be more people moved by the brother- hood of man and the Fatherhood of God, than before, and with a better measure by the public of the duty of} groups toward one another; of em- towards capitalists’ ‘and em- and capitalists and emplo: rd employes, constantly addi Counsels of modera- | tion will naturally have no weight; Where the struggle is for the malnion ance of the « suppressicn of © policy union, EW PSYCTOLGGICA’, TION” WON'T CHANGE OMIC LAWS “Theorists and Lewis and his i reasoners the} in clouds conceive that we are approach-} ing, or are perhaps in, a new psy logical condition of they contribute thi ) th labor, to which; unrest and which | seck to analyze. I am_ still old-| shioned enough to believe that man is no different now than 20 or 50 years 0, and that no psychological analys- of present conditions will serve td ‘op the operation of the old econon: Jaws which are constantly at wo aw of gravita Jand like’ that, althotgh resis jtemporary counterforces, make them- Selves felt and will make themselves felt as of old. “I do not mean to say the tremend- ous jupheaval of the war will not compel employers in dealing with em- ployes, hy reason of the just power through ‘combinations rt them ves, to recognize that e as full a right to-ive and as full right to be heard as to} the questions of what they shall re- ceive and the terms of their emplo ment as employers e to earn rea- sonable dividends their inves ments, “That is the change I think is here, and which I believe to be permanent but that change is quite cons with the present social order, the right of property, and the need- bd stimulus to any social order which the right of proper gives. We are in the aftermath of the war; many things we see are directly traceable to tempora conditions the absorp- tion of the nations in the war com- pelled, But there is a reaction — to- ward previous conditions that were regarded as normal, as the war re- cedes in its effects and in point of time; and the changes so many people s€e now will grow less and less as time goes on. THERE'LL BE. NO RADICAL DE- PARTURE FROM SOCIETY AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT “We siall have made progress it the’ compelling of one class to recog- nize the rights of another, and in‘ the general public’s sympathy with that change, but it is not going to be a radical: departure from society as we have known it. A tendency to swing back fo the normal will grow strong- er and stronger as the violent changes wrought by the war cease to have their effect: “It’s aie same old world i the same 0 le, and suceess Is going | o follow tho exercise of the pruden- tial virtues in the long run; an on -| fesident of F: s we shall to all the useful and bene- ficent machinery for the adjustment timate of their mutual duties will, in the long run, bring abont.”" "JOHNS. WATSON DEAD AT FARGO Prominent’ Member of North| Dakota Bar Victim of Heart Trouble i | Funeral | for the! Watson, head of the law | n, Young & Conmy, a] I rgo since 1892, who died | at his home, 505 Eighth street south, at about 9 o'clock Sunday evening. Mr, Watson was seated in a chair | in the living room of his home, his head resting in a most natural posi- tion, when he was found by his chauffeur, who had entered the room to announce that the car was in read- iness to carry Mr. Watson to the Northern Pacific depot where he in- tended boarding a train for Milwau- Kee to meet Mrs. Watson. | | Mr. Watson had spent the evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H: H. | Wooledge and Mr. and Mrs. James Pollock. He left the Pollock resi- dence, about six blocks distant from his own home, about 8.40 o'clock, and | walked home. i When found at about 9:15 o'clock, he apparently had seated himself to rest while awaiting the arrival of his chauffeur. Dr, W. J. Awty, residing next door to the Watson residence, called by the chauffeur when the lat- ter failed to get a response from Mr. Watson to whom he had called several | times thinking that he was merely | sleeping, said that Mr. Watson had been dead about 15 or 20 minutes. There was nothing to indicate that Mr. Wason had suffered the slightest pain. Since he came to Fargo in 1892 from Jamestown, N. D., where he had com- menced the practice of law on his ad- mission to the bar in 1881, Mr. Watson had been an active factor in the busi- ness life of the community, attested by his presidency dt one time of the Fargo Cgmmercial club; his leadership in the Red Cross work both in Fargo and in Cass county, and his participation in the establishment and maintenance of such civic enterprises as the Fargo Country club and/other similar in- terests. Active in Two Fargo Banks. Mr. Watson was a vice president of the First National bank of Fargo, and a member of its board of directors, and he also was a member of the board 8 Nov, 12 s were held here toda, Jate John Irm_ of The C: Theatre in New York, where Pryor’s band is now playing, has ifered $100 for the best words to | the “American Legion March.” Send your composition to Ben At-| 1 til recently he also was a member of the board of directors of the Fargo National bank and he also was a di- rector of the North Dakota Metal Cul- vert company of Fargo. residence at Jamestown assisted in the organ tion of the Wells-Dickey company and the Wells-Dickey Trust company, and he was a member of the board of di- rectors of both organizations. Mr. Watson also was a factor in the organization of the Russell-Miller Milling company, originally founded at Jamestown, and of the Occident Ele- vator company, and he was a member of the board of directors of both cor- porations. An Indianan by Birth. John S, Watson was born in Foun- tain county, Indiana, on Feb. 20, 1857. His parents, Samuel E. and Elizabeth M. (Brown) Watson, were natives of well, The City. The judge of the contest is Warren ‘apitol Theatre, New York | Shorts, librarian of The Capitol The- atre. but for many years were residents of Indiana, and elder Watson being a merchant. _John Watson was educated in ash college, from which he was graduated in 1878. He provided much ot the money for his education by his own efforts, working during the sum- mer months, selling books, maps, etc., and he also tutored, and for two years after his graduation he was on the faculty of the college. A year there- after was spent ‘in the law office of P. S. Kennedy of Crawfordsville, In- diana. In May, 1881, Mr. Watson was ad- mitted to the bar, and some months later he removed to Jamestown, N. D., where he opened an office, and where he continued the practice of law till 1892,when he formed a_ partnership with the late W. F. 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