Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1930, Page 28

B—14 LABOR PRINGPLES REALED N 193 Acceptance of Unemployment | and Higher Wage Conten- tions Features of 1929. a BY WILLIAM GREEN, President, American Federation of Labor. The outstanding feature of the year 1920 was the general acceptance of the principles long maintained by the American Federation of Labor—that acute unemployment could be elimi- nated and that the higher the wages the greater the prosperity. Added to this was the remarkable | increase in the number of employers | b and others who believe that the five- day, 40-hour week is an absolute neces- sity to the future of our country. Have Preached Principles. In season and out of season for nearly 80 years these principles have been preached by the American Federation of Labor and its affiliated organiza- tions. the early days of the American eration of Labor employers believed that the way to make good times in hard times was to reduce wages and increase the hours in the work day. ‘While considerable ground was gained ; @gainst these theories, it was not until the Great War that it became general knowledge that high wages and con- lt’l.numu‘ em) oymen:, for the workers rought prosperity. The conferences under the leader- | ( ship of the President are giving every | O ht to devising ways and means of keeping men and women at work at adequate wages. al of h fean editor. New York Tri of a Busy Lif to Waterville tomorrow. however, till the stagecoach (a naked, THE EVENING THE EVENING STORY One of World-Famous Works of Literature Eighty Years Ago. BY HORACE GREELEY. (Horece Greeley, 1811 3 and politician: he, ibune: his book. rese 'm.l‘eyc!lon nnm:nuy fereh “t 1849. under the Three days had glided away rapidly nd pleasantly, and not very idly, among the heartiest of friends in Ban- gor (Maine)—and days bright as Italy and pure as the breath of mountains. ‘The still melted streets, the adjacent roads and the southern exposures, in the beams of the ascendant_sun; abundant snow gradually into the rivulets from the but the nights were risp and bracing, and the frequent ap- ance of lighter sleighs in the ts _bespoke the obstinacy with which Winter’s fleecy mantle still held its ground in the surrounding country. The ice still bound th}Penu‘mcot nearly to Frankfort, the business of Bangor and vicinity in its rugged embrace, the foolhardy to travel with teams on its now treacherous surface. 14 milés below, holding ind even tempting But on Tuesday the clear azure of several preceding days was gradually obscured by the portents of a coming storm, which, in the course of the fol- lowing night, became quite unequivocal, nd the pattering of rain on the roof f the Hatch House through the small ours gave premonition of a moist ride It was not, the door, be- open wagon) drew up at t wix six and seven in the morning ‘Wednesday, March 21st) that the fun f it became entirely palpable. The wind came strong from the southwest; the skies were black; the rain was com- ing faster and faster; in short, a Down- the off one rolled clear over the nigh one, and was extricated, and got up on the near side. The passengers (the Amer- | heaviest having been thrown out rather suddenly as we came to a halt, the i 80 | Wagon barely not upsetting) walked ahead in quest of help and shelter; (perhaps it didn't pour!) the wheel horses were also taken off, and four oxen obtained to draw the wagon out of the drift, and on to the changing- place, not far distant. Soon. all were on board again—all #s good as before, except that the buf- falo robes were wet on both sides, and the seats had rather a clammy feeling and we went on merrily as ever—meet- ing few decided obstacles for the next ftwelve miles—to the second changing- place (North Dixmont). So far, we had made good time, in spite of wind and weather. “And now,” said the driver, “you may expect to see some bad going.” The testimony was confirmed by others, but we did not need their as- surance. Two miles more were got over retty well, one bagd place being avoided Ey letting down the fence and making a detour through the field, but soon we ‘were brought to a dead halt again. The horses were floundering in a rather pro- found drift, the wagon was “stuck,” and no resource remained but to beat uj the neighborhood for oxen to draw it on, while the passengers went ahead in quest of dinner. The portliest of the number (weigh- Ing good two hundred), who had already fwice taken his own portrait by a flying leap into a snowdrift, and had received STAR, WASHINGTON, some _severe wrench in the later operation when he narrowly missed breaking a leg in clear- ing the wagon, alone lingered behind to pick up some bits of rides between the worst snowdrifts, of which, I think, there were a hundred within the next two miles. Yet the wagon, was, by six xen, got through or around them some- how in a little more than two hours— the horses following behind, and com- ing through with a beaten and sorry look. I had no idea it could be done 80 _soon by hour. Dinner (at Troy) in a hurry, and all aboard again, and henceforward to Waterville, we were enabled to take the rain sitting, instead of walking, for nearly all the time. Some drifts had to be walked over, of course, some snow had to be shoveled away from before the wheels; once or twice we had to take hold and help propel the wagon through a drift, that need not have been 30 deep, so far as any practical utility was regarded in its construction, and twice more our solid friend was half thrown, half jumped, into the snowdirfts, as the wagon keeled up one side, and seemed intent on going over. The last time one arm went through the drift into about two feet of coolish water, and he, already racked r.nd sore, | was on the point of losing temper. ‘The others were more nimble, or, rather, more lucky, generally making clean jump, and alighting pe pend larly and right end up. Finally, at 6 p.m., we drove rapidly into Waterville, 50 good miles from Bangor, and found CLAFLIN Opticicn—Optometrist 922 14th St. N.W. Established 1889 1 contusions and a hard East Equinoctial was upon us. There ‘were six of us passengers, not forgetting the driver, the best roadsman of all, whom no obstacle could daunt and no botheration disconcert, and who, pro- tected in part by his rubber overall, looked the day's driving wind and driven rain in the face with buoyant philosophy. The six amused them- selves, when they could stay in the wagon, by turning a part of the water from one to the other by means of four umbrellas, which would have been of some account had not the course of the descending fluid been so greatly deflec- ted from the perpendicular by the sweeping gale, and had there not been entirely too much of it. Even as it was, the man in red-flannel shirt and glazed outer garments, who occupied the most sheltered position (leeward of the um- brellas), and seemed to have been taught by some bird the secret of olling himself, contrived to maintain a com- paratively dry look to the end. Ten miles—mainly of mud—had slid rapidly and merrily behind us, before we encountered the first formidable snowdritt still occupying the road, over which hundreds of teams had traveled securely for weeks, but into which, soft- ened by the rain, ours plunged, and in it wallowed. The next moment, the leaders were down in a tangled pile; To Stimulate Employment. Both the Nation and the States are B emoyment Al the cipems wo ive employment. e experts an skilled men in industry and finance have been commandeered to work out | 2 plan of action. All this promises re- lief and will establish irrevocably the fact that unemployment can be cured and that high wages will permit those Who work to live in reasonable com- fort. ‘Therefore, more continuous hap- piness than was thought possible a few years ago will be the result. Another outcome of the year's work ‘was the ice by leading members of Congress of the principles of a bill to limit the use of injunctions in labor FLOATING STOCKS SUPPLY IS LARGE Brokers Estimate Figure at 125, 000,000 Shares, or 9 Per Cent of Total. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. 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All sizes. (Pifth Fleor, The Hecht Oo.) D. C. THURSDAY, warm rooms and various comforts await- ing us. Lecturing that evening was a little uphill; but, since the hearers did not audibly complain, I shan't. I thought the village dancing school at our hotel ought to have broken up at midnight, considering that some of us were to be called for the Augusta stage at 5 am, but the young folks seemed to enjoy it to a much latter hour; and, if their parents don't object, I probably should be quiet. Still, I do say that dancing—which ought to be a healthful, innocent and approved recreation for all—is made unpopular with the grave and devout by the outrageously late hours to which mere infants in years are kept up by it, in hot and crowded rooms, whence they are suddenly transferred, when utterly exhausted, to the outdoor cold and their fireless homes. It was not the creaking of that fiddle, the hea: JANUARY 2, 1930. pounding of unskilled feet on the ball- room floor, and the annoying rattle of my door-latch in consequence, till some time this morning, that put this into my head, but these served to con- firm me in my earlier conviction. SURVEY OF HEREDITY There are soft-hearted sentimental- ists who would transform the most hardened criminal by kindness. It is already charged, on the other hand, by those who would shoot the first crim- inal on sight, that we are pampering our criminals_in our so-called penal institutions. 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