Show 1 r I 1 labor warfare destroys industry which I 1 I 1 gives life to employers and workers I 1 by ETHELBERT STEWART chief statistician eian U S bureau of I 1 L I 1 there can bo be no industrial peace until both sides to a labor argument want industrial peace and when both sides really want peace and not a fight fl 9 ht a settlement is bound to come there must bo be concession on both sides and a willingness on both sides to abide by a settlement but unfortunately in america it seems that there is a large class of men by no means confined either to the laboring or to the capitalistic class who prefer fighting for its own sake to hidu industrial peace and all that such peace means back in 1886 the stove Foundry men and the iron 21 holders union cocked horns borns with the ilia manufacturers in the stove industry it began with the bridge beach strike in st louis and soon involved the entire country they ta ley fought until both s sides i des were utterly V exhausted and each had barely a sing single 0 I 1 e breath left ri finally both sides used that list last breath to di gay let et us forget it they saw that if they did not stop then and stop forever the stove industry aou would id ga go to pieces and for the salvation of the industry to which they all owed life they came together settled otheir their differences appointed committees of arbitration from both sides and established machinery for the settlement of all disputes that might possibly sibly arise in ilia future each year sine since a that time these commit committees ices have met and adjusted amicably all the ilia differences in the stove industry however that Is is the only industry I 1 in the united states which has ha 8 I 1 I 1 been at peace for thi thirty arty years the only industry which ap apparently patently parent ly ha has S learned that warfare is destructive not so much to tho the individuals who participate in it as it is destructive to the very industry itself when that fact is once firmly grasped by all strikers and by all lockers out the labor disturbances will depreciate astoundingly |