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Show WORKMEN'S SIDE OF STORY President Oompers of American Federation Fed-eration of Labor Delivers nn Address Ad-dress Upon This Topic. Mountain Lnko Park, Md . Aug 10 Several thousnnd poisons greeted Hninuel flnmpers, president of tho Aimrknn Federation of Labor, who delivered de-livered nn address to Hy beforn the Chnutauqun assembly nn "Labor nnd Cipltnl, nnd tho Workmnn'a hide of the Mory." President Mitchell of the I'nlto.i Mine-Workers ot America, who wns nlso tn linvo spoken, wnB nimble In be 1 1 1 sent becnuse of the serious situation situa-tion In the nnthrnclto Iklds Mr Oompera pref.ued Ids remarks li snlng that tho nverage mint looks conlruri nn labors side nf tho question ques-tion Tho newspnpers, without nny nllempt nn my part tn charge them with unfairness usually presint the labor question fiom the standpoint of tho emplo)er. They either get their Information from employers or their representatives It Is tho same old storj tho mm nnd women, tho representative repre-sentative of labor, who surfer from tho snnio old winng. Thero Is no short cut lo emancipation " Mr C.nmpers dc lared that tho Inbor of joung nnd Innocent children Is the great evil that needs reformation Many Htates, particularly In tho bouth, havo no law whatever tn pitvint tho practice "Men get rich," ho deilnied, ' from tho laboi of children whore bonis nro ground Into the almighty dollar. It Is a sad commentary. Men walk the streets In Idleness'ln the textile tex-tile districts while the mills are tilled with busy children Instead of labor bdng crowned with honor mid dlgnll), It Is n question of how much labor 1.111 ho squeezed nut of tho laborer nnd how little wages ho can ho forced to ncccpt In return" Mr. tlompers discussed tho question nf shorter hours nt length deilmlng tho countries nf long hours wire . loci lo-ci le.lly bnckwnrd and denied the nlle-gntlon nlle-gntlon that I a movement to shorten hours would menu tho decadence of tho United Htates as n great producing power. He declnred that there was no greater conservntnr of tho piaio than the Inbor org miration 'One hundred nnd fifty thousand men In the anthrnel Held havo been in-gnged in-gnged In a silent struggle for three months, nnd there has been less violence vio-lence than Is cnirmltted nt 11 plcnlo of nrdlnnry people upon nidlnnry occasions, occa-sions, Ihe men struggling today had been reduced tn a state nf serfdom, but In the past three )enrs have been recast a id their characters iemodele.1 Their mnn'iool Is aroused nnd I be-lleve, be-lleve, ns find Is my Judge, the worst the miners have had tn confront Is paBt ' Mr flnmpers declared that the lawyer law-yer was Incompetent tn discuss the In-diistrlnl In-diistrlnl question 'Thelnw)ei llvis In nnd studies the pnst," he di eland 'While big framed ph)slcnlly fnrmed he is mentally In the dark nces ' This nbs.rvntlon vvus brought out by tho nlleged rcmaik of Mr Hnss n legal represcntatlvo of the Delaware Litka-wonnn Litka-wonnn & Western lallrond lecenlly that thero can bo no arbitration thnt the miners must first return to wnrk and then Hie companies will discuss with them 'Hf demand thn right to be reprinonti-d hy cnunsel, declnred the speaker Just Imagine the miner being foned back to work with nil gilevancts he mnv have had squeezed and stnrved nut of him " Mr Oonipirs iredlcted the suicess of tho nnthrnclto strike. |