Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1903, Page 15

/ Both Sides The attempted overthrow of organized labor in the city of Omaha by an organiza- tion called the Business Men's assoclation, while not involving nearly as many per sons 8 some previous struggles that have takon place in the industrinl world, still has been quite costly, not only on account of the loss of time of hundreds of men, but further on account of the stagnation of business in Omaha for months. The unique character of the controversy, the desperate, wily and cruel methods adopted to not only crush the unfons and punish the participants and their sympathizers and deprive the members of the means of sup- porting themselves, forms a highly Inter- eating chapter in the progress of modern commercialism. The beginning of this con- fict may be sald to have commenced about March 16, when the hod carriers made a demand for 2 cents per hour raise in wages. 1 am Informed that quite a num- ber of jobs paid the scale and the men were gradually getting work under the new conditions, when the supply of bullding material, except lumber, was shut off to men employing union labor. This continued for weeks, or until the Bricklayers' union undertook the role of strike breakers by going to work, June 15, This action on the part of the material men resulted in an almost complete sus- pension of all union work in the city. Its use was a new method of lockout and boy- cott combined, enforcing idleness upon the men and almost complete paralyzation of the bullding Industry, The bricklayers, hod ocarriers, carpenters, plumbers, plas- terers and electticians were federated in a body known as a Bullding Trades council, organized for mutual assistance. The plasterers had made a demand upon their employers, but had, I am told, withdrawn such demand, to later reinstate it upon the advent of the lockout. The carpenters had made a demand for a« minimum scale of wages of cents per hour, an increase of 10 cents over the previous year, to cover in part the increased cost of living. The demand was made some time in January and was to go Into effect May 1, thus giving the employers four months' time in which to apply the scale to all new estimates. The contractors did not reply until about the middle of April, and then submitted a counter proposition with terms substan- tally as follows: N First—A sliding scale of wages ranging from 35 cents to 50 cents per hour. Second—Eight hours a day, four hours Baturday. Third—Time and a half for overtime. Fourth—Each trade to settle its own dis- pitee without the intervention of other ades. Sympathetic strikes forbidden. Fifth—The em?loymenl of nonunion men at_the same scale of wages as union men. Bixth—Arbitration between the journey- men carpenters and their bosses. Beventh—An apprentice system. Several conferences were held between committees representing the bullders and journeymen prior to my arrival upon the fleld May 13. I immediately arranged for a conference between the two organiza- tions, which was held at the Bullders' ex- change May 15. After discussing the mat- ter at considerable length, I proposed a joint arbitration board, consisting of rep- resentatives from the two federations, the Builders' exchange and the Allled Build- ing Trades council, to settle all disputes in the bullding trades then pending. ‘[his was agreed to and the two committees ad- journed with the understanding that each side was to do its best to secure the adoption of arbitration as outlined. In the course of several days our union re celved a very curt letter from the secretary of the Bullders' exchange stating that the exchange refused to recognize or treat with the Allied Bullding Trades council, but would treat with each trade separately. Thus they refused to recognize the right of the workmen to join in a federation of trades for mutual protection while exer- clsing the right themselves. Later on a ' number of employes, representing the va- rlous trades, met a committee from the Allled Building Trades councll, but could not reach an mderstanding as to the method ‘of arbitration. I again resolved to make an effort at settlement and about June 17 I arranged for another confgrence between the carpenter contractors, mysel and a committee of three conservative journeymen. We met Friday forenoon, June 19. We had a very pleasant meeting and each side seemed to be willing to make concessions. I am sure we were. ‘We adjourned to meet the evening of June 2, our committee fully expesting to ef- fect @ settlement, when to our surprise Mr. John Harte, who had not taken part in our previous conferences, stated that they, the committee, would not treat with the union as & un'od, but would treat with individuals. 1 asked if that was intended as an ultimatum and he replied “Yes." I told him that I was not surprised that we had believed from the first that their pur- pose was to break up the union, and here was proof of It, and upon that ground we would meet the issue. Since the last conference, at which our committee recelved from the contractors thelr ultimatum, & number of our mem- bers have recelved communloations read- ing as follows: ———8ir: 1 have some work on hand nw"'rlnfl \f you wish to work for me, as an individual, in future I will give you cents per hour, as this is wha 3 rated at by the tontractors of Omaha. an we have agreed to pay you no less, but we will not settle with the union. otfully, — “;:an {hl- communication proof vositive that the purpose of the Business Men's as- sociation is not only to crush the unions. but to dictate the terms under which the men shall work? We were toid by the con- tractors that they purposed making a list of all the carpenters in the city and as- signing them such wages as they deemed them worth, starting with 35 cents per hour. I was Mot informed whether each man was to be numbered, as are the, con- viots in a penitentlary, but like the ox or mule to all intents and purposes he was to be labeled. He, the worker, was to have no volce in the conditions under which he was employed. The only essential difference between the free man and the slave lies in the right of the free man to refuse to work Wniess he can be a party to the terms under which he labor: The chattel slave per- formed coerced labor. His master fixed the tonditions under which he should labor without the slave's consent, and whenever the employer can fix my wages and my conditions of employment arbitrarily then 1 am a slave—n> amount of sophistry can change it. Thus the labor unions can charge that the Omaha Business Men's as- soclation and its agents and allies are in- troducing into Omaha a system of despotic slav as subversive of human liberty as was ever chattel slavery In the south. It is the same old battle of the dollar versus the man. The trade union has incurred the displeasure of the business world be- cause it has undertaken to establish a high standard of lving for its members and to secdre for them ample remuneration. The trade unlon has brought God's sunshine into the sweater's den and has rescued the bodies and souls of our children from slavieh conditions in shop, factory and store, all this interfering with unlimited profits, and this is at the very bottom of the erusade against the labor unions. The matter of wages has never boen a serfous issue between contractors and our have ever stood ready to make bosses half way. Had throw down the omrtnM-n;d bnn::; obligations and pledges to them as brickiayers did, no doubt settlement would of the Present Labor Controversy| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE J Two Papers on Strike Questions—One by Na- tional Organizer Sidney J. Kent Speaking for the Carpenters of Omaha<The Other Condensed from an Article Contributed to the New York Inde- pendent by President John S. Stevens of the Na- tional Association of Builders. have been easy. to $ per day kit of tools, The bricklayer was raised The carpenter with his big was only asking for $4 or §1 less than the bricklayer. Under a just system the carpenter ought to get more wages than the bricklayer. Year by year, under the speclalitization of the trade and the use of the labor-saving machine, his employment s less steady, the loss of life and ltmb greater. He works faster. The labor cost of his product Is less today than ever before. Through organization his per diem compensation in some cases is more than formerly, but his annual earnings are less. Rent and living expenses Increase faster than his per diem wages. Even at $4 per day seven months In the year, he will not wear many diamonds, own many brick blocks, take many trips to the seashore or Europe or buy many automobiles, The contractors of Omaha had ample notice of the men's dsmands and no doubt figured the Increase of wages on all new jobs. The nature of our trade is such that our men can employ themselves If they can secure the materfal. Our men wers employing themselves when all at once they found the doors of the lumber yards closed agairst them. The lumber men had temporarily gone out of business, and yet lumber finds its way to frlends of the Business Men's association. Never In the world's history was there a more despotic boycott than that now used to prevent our men trom honestly earning their bread by working for themselves. The purpose of this boycott is in my opin- fon, just as much to destroy the small con- tractor and business man and bulld up & business men’s and contractors' monopoly, as it is_to starve our memberd into sub- jection until they give up thelr organiza- tion and become slaves of the combine. Much has been sald during the contro- versy about the nonunion man and how the Business Men's association wants to protect his intorests. I notice, however, they seldom ralse his wages, only when they can use him In time of strikes and usually his wnges are reduced when he has pulled their chestnuts out of the fire and the strike fs broken. It is because the nonunion man Is a negative force that the beeees love him o well, because he pulls down rather than bullds up. Not many years ago women pulled the cars Instead of mules in the coal mines of Great Britain. Did the nononlon man raise his hand to rescie them? No. He was too busy look- ing after self. DI the business man rescue them? No, indeed. He put them there be- cause there was money in it. The physical, moral or spiritual welfare of men, women and children cut but a sorry figure when welghed alongside of profits by business men’s associations, and they love the non- unfon man becanse he can be used as a tool to stiffic the ambitions of the worker who secks by assoclation to be something more than a hewer of wood or drawer of water, The trade union Is the only true friend of the nonunion man. We took 50,000 ot them into our organizetion last year We raised their wages, helped to educate their children and made them broader and better citfzens. What did the Business Men's assoclation do for them? It is not my purpose to say that trades unions are perfect, for nothing formed by human hands is. They are, however, essen- tlal to our efvilization and have come to stuy. They may perhaps be destroyed in Omaha, but more powerful ones will rise in their stend. Nor will I say that all em- ployers want to reduce wages, Some of our carpenter contractors are fair-minded men, and if left free to act we could settle with them. Our men, citizens of Omaha, most of them with wives and children, doeply deplore this condition of affairs that hae proved so disastrous to the material in terests of your city. It shows to what ex- tent some of these men will go who think they have the working men on the run Read their articles in “the country press. Like Shylock, how they gloat when they have brought the unfon man to his knees and compelled him to return to work as an individual. The Carpenters' unfon of Omaha has never questioned the right of the employer to hire nonunion men. Its members simply reserve the right, Inherent to the free As Viewed by Employers “T'Il have to call a strike on you,” sald an uninvited visitor to the office of one of my New York building trade friends while 1 was there visiting him the other day. “Oh, what's {He use?” sald my host, with a halt humorous smile, which, as I thought, seemed to take littie account of the serious- ness of the situation. “Well, our union ain't satisfied with some of the conditions on your work. We are golng to call out our men.” 1 ia riot hear more of the conversation, but T noticed, on returning to Philadelphia, that there was no report of any strike on his work. Asking him dbout it a few days afterward, he smiled even more broadly than when he received the call of the “business agent,” who was the uninvited guest, “You dian't hear all the 'conversation thiat day,” he said. ‘“‘He added, after his threat of a strike: ‘But $100 will settle it.’ No, I dlan't have & strike. That $100 In his pocket was cheaper than a strike would have been." The time came at last when timgrous assent to the demands of blackmallers in the gulse of walking delegates coul no longer serve even as a palliative of labor's exactions. Unlon of labor could be effecs tively encountered only by unlon of em- ployers. The great, grim struggle so long impending had become a set battle. “Labor's unrest,”, of which we hear so much today, is not &n unrest at all; it is a mere expres#ipn of two unjust phases of the labor question. One is the walking delegate, the other is the Intoxication of power felt by trades unions, an intoxication which, in the bullding trades at least, has reached its climax. Labor has never been better pald in the history of the human family than it is in the United Btates today; yet there has rarely been duch ‘‘unrest.”” The two facts must be taken together if we desire any Just estimate of the situation’ We have labor threatefied with starvation in the midst .of uhexampled plenty, while capital is without earnitigs, lying idle by the tens ‘l milliohs, afrald to go Into operations ontrolled by trades unions. Such are the most obvious results of the “unrest” that exists in the time of the greatest pros- perity. The weapons which labor Is wielding are themselves undergoing & change. Most meén have a quiet, often unacknowledged, sympathy for the workingman who is mak- Ing a falr fight for better conditions by using the old-fashioned strike; but the old- fashioned, fair and sqnure strike has be- come obsolete. In its place we have some- thing else—the so-called ‘“sympathetic strike." If Jones strike against Smith in Georgla, Brown and Robinvon must have a quarrel In New York or San Francisco. That is the logic of the sympathetic stfike. The attitude of the bullding trades is best expressed by a cartoon in a recent number of a well known comic paper, where an employer calls up his workmen and shows them' the words, written on a placard: “The sympathetic lockout Is as logical as the sympathetic strike." “I'he sympathetic strike is our only ef- fective weapon,” say Its advocates. The statement is itself an abandonment of all justification. It is merely an extenuation, an ostensible excuse—not an appeal to the right. The men admit, however, that If employers were organized as thoroughly as they, the workers would be powerless. The admission is Impressive; it is now being acted upon. Chicago hullders, two years ago, reeng- nized the danger involved in the sympa- thetic strike, and, by joining hands, sup- pressed formidable revolts and procgred the abrogation of some highly mischietous and unjust rules. The lesson appears to have been lost upon workimen elsewhers. Demands acceded to grew by what they fed upon; no rate of pay, no prinejple of business' mahagement, appeared ever to bring settled conditions. In 1888, the second vear of the Master Buflders' National as- soclation, that body took its first step looking to the formation of permanently organized bodles whose object should be conciliation.. Everything that could be dono to secure some fixed principle or method of dealing with labor has since been teied. One year ago the National Assoclation of Bullders made a most careful and thor- oughgolng effort to organize conclliation in New York, employing its secretary, Wil- Mam H. Hayward of Boston, for the pur- poss. He formed a complete plan, but it fell through. The men would not give it their adherence. The situation has since grown steadily worse. “Bstterment of labor” is no longer the pretense in many of the difficulties forced ‘upon employers; it Is often a war between unjons, in which the employer is between the lines and receives the fire from’ both sides. Indeed, it has sometimes been the attempt of one union organization to force upon others the acceptance of the sym- pathetic strike. The bullding trades are, perhaps, the best example of far reaching ramifications in business. Upon their good or fll fortune depends the welfare of mil- lions of capital and of hundreds of thou- rallroads, brickmakers, I men, the lime fndustry, structural iron and steel millé, metal roofers and cornice men, the hardware trades—all must feel any Qisturbance in the operations of the builders. On its other side, the crafts waich bulld homes touch the people more nearly than almost any others. The amount invested in building has been estimated hy statisticlans as being greater than that in any other industry. The very vulnerabllity which these facts suggests has invited the attacks of trades unfons. The position of the bullding industry as o the agitator is similar to that of real estate In the presence of the tax gatherer; it cannot escape attack. Assaults upon it are mischievous for reasons little thought | of. Buch attacks.ape really directed upon the business of Investing and saving the products of industry. This age is in ad- vance of almost every other in that it ofters unrivaled opportunities and safety for the investment of mccumulated earn- ings. Land and bulldings are a recognized form for such safe keeping; and a course of action which renders it more costly or less safe is really an attack upon the best results of civilization. In still another form is the mischief suf- fered by the bullding trades felt by the community, though the community is to a great extent unconsclous of its cause. 1t is In the encouragement given to stock speculation by the temporary uncertain- ties or dangers of safer forms of Invest- ment. 1 am of the opinion that much of the vast stock Inflation of recent months and the Injurious collapse of values were due to the overwhelming desire for invest- ments for money, which have been turned aside from the bullding fleld In the course of the attacks made upon it by strikes. The present stage of the danger is dif- ferent from almost all others in that it has passed all questions of wages, of just treatment, hours of labor, or any other matter properly within the purview of trades union action. The agitation of today ignores the vary groundwork of men's rights to thelr property and labor. The or- ganizations existing among master builders in the various cities have come to the con- clusion that a crisis {s at hand; that six weeks' or six months' cessation of work is better Ahan the endurance of present con- ditions, They are acting accordingly. Trades unions are helping, in more di- rect ways, in the work of turning over our industries to foreigners. Declaring that American workmen should receive Ameri- can wages, they deny to American youth, as fur as lles in their power, the right and opportunity to learn trades. The limita- tions on the number of apprentices allowed 18 a familiar example. It is not so gen- erally known that they insist upon periods of apprenticeship that are arbitrarily fixed, with no reference to the capacity of the learner. The youth who, by natural skill or intense application, can learn the trade within two years is obliged to spend a full term as a pupll along with the most stuptd or most indolent of his fellows. Em- ployers, too, are at one with their most unreasonable workmen in enforcing the rule. The present outlook In relation to trades unions is serious. upon the prinsiple of unfonism; but no one knows where power unrestrained will lead. Business inen in union are far more power- ful than laboring men, and can defeat thelr most formidable uprisings. The con- sclousness of power which the demon- stration affords will cause, in some minds, a desire for reprisals for injurles Inflicted by brutal and unjust strikes in the past. Should they come 1t will be justification to say that the workmen, by their arbitrary acts, have brought retribution upon them- selves. The thing to be considered will then te whether the very independence of American labor s not itself in danger. The backward swing of the pendulum, from the present excesses of the unions, ma; be far; those who wish well for thelr coun- try and dts people must hope sincerely that it will not result in a permanent lowering of the tone of labor in the United States. The unions, by meeting the situation in a spirit of falrness, by the abolition of vio- lence, of boycotts and the sympathetic strike, can avert their danger. JOHN 8. STEVENS, President of the National Assoclas -~ tion ‘of No assault is intended | UNE 28, 1903 workman, to refuse to work with ang man | obnoxious to them. The union Is flx‘m’ to the sliding scals of wages scheme be- | cause experience shows them that the scale | always slides downward. They stand ever | ready to accept arbitration, providing it 1s not of the llon and lamb kind, when they are expected {o be the lamb. They wel- come an apprentice system, and were the contractors left free to deal with them without: the Interference of outside parties a settlement could have been effected long | ago. SIDNEY J. KENT, Natfonal Organizer Amalgamated Brother- hood of Carpenters and Jolners PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, “Tommy,” sald a father to his incor- rigible offspring, “I didn’t know until today that the teacher whipped vou last week.’ “Why, T knew it all the time" said Tommy “Tommy,” said the mother of a preco- clous youth, “Why did you take two pleces of cake Instead of one, as I told you?" “Because,” replied Tommy, “I was playin' make believe I was twins." A 3-year-old youngster came home from Sunday school, and, upon being asked whom he saw, sald promptly: “I saw ever'body 1 knew 'cep'n God." “Papa,” sald small Tommy, ‘“does mamma love you more than she does me?" “Of course not, Tommy,” replied the tather. “Wall, I think she ought to,” rejoined the small philosopher, * ‘cause there is so much more of you to love. “What a beautiful mamma you've got,’ sald Governor Richard Yates of Illinois to the little daughter of his host “Yes. When there's a party,” replied the golden-haired one as she settled In his lap and listened to his watch tick. “Mamma, has Mr. Brown's eyes got feat?"" asked little Eimer. ‘Certainly not, dear,” replied the mother. “But why did you ask?" Cause 1 heard sister say Mr. Brown's eyes followed her all around the room at the party last night,” replied Elmer. The late Rev. Hyatt Smith of Brooklyn used to tell this story of his little daughter: While walking along the street one day the child, who had the happy faculty of look- ing on the sunny side of things, saw a wagonload of sheepskins. “What are those things, papa?” she asked “Sheepskins, my dear." * “But: where are the sheep, papa?’ The father explained that the sheep had been Kkilled for food. Looking after the wagon, with the talls of the sheepskins wagging as they dangled over the side, the child remarked: “Well, papa, the sheep may be dead, but the tails seem to be having a good time.” — When Appendicitis Pays. 1 don't uhderstand how E. H. Harriman 8ot up about two weeks after his opera- tion for appendicitis,” sald one of a group at the club, “when it took me six weeks to get on my feet.” “Oh, well, your time was not so valu- able.” etc., from the crowd. Meanwhile the doctor in the group had been silent. “You heard, of course, what they found?" he” ventured. General Interest— “Why, the appendix was full of un- digested securities, and all they had to de was to cut the coupons off.”’—New York Times. “FOLLOW ‘[_G)rchard_& Wilhem June Rug and Carpet Selling will be interesting here for it's the last month of the spring season, and we propose crowd- ing it full of quick carpet selling—we propose unloading the major portion of this stock. We are well aware that it's the price that interests and we are meeting you on this, then it's the best—the superior qualities, that you secure here and that’s afeature it’s well to keep in mind. AXMINSTER RUGS. 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