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Show TilAUXCEVTALKS OCT. S Declares ILii'slf on Kay Question. Tua: are fio s A tiling Labor Circka, ADVICE TO TEE OGI5EIB3. E 847s That While Labor Organisation are Good a Federation of TraJcs it Hii'aka. Pitti bj, Pa.. Oct. 17. Chanocej M, IVpew made the most Important speech at the meeting of the Interna tioual Brotherhood of Ix-omotive Engineer. En-gineer. When be appeared befor that body he was greeted with tb wildest applanite. When order bad I won restored he proceeded to deliver an addre. which was listened to with great Interest. Several time ha waa compelled to pause, owing to the deaf ening applause of hi hearer. Mr. Iv pew Mke highly of the Bro-therhood Bro-therhood of I.omotive engineer and said that during the period of It ex'nt-ence, ex'nt-ence, prosperity and growth, hundred of labor organliation had been formed and dissolved. Tbey had boen ttartcd to carry cut novel theories or to put lit practice unusual and untried procmera. "The urc of your body ia due to iu rigid adherence lo the right principle upon which it wa founded. No labor organlation can cvlst whoe whole and only object I lo I acre a wage and diminish hours. It lark the cMentia! bond of mutual sympathy and brotherly help in bearing or lightening earll other' burden. The tendency of tuck an org.tuUation la Inevitably and rapid ly to failure. "The fundamental Idea of the engineer' engi-neer' brolherhiKKl U, Brat, charity ia the tupport of the Injured and contribution contri-bution to the family of the duad; see ond, education, which perfect the artban 111 the theory and practice of hi trade and broaden Mm for larger nae fuineMa.a eitlceu; third, protection, ("curing and maintaining your right. Your record I unetaiupled in the history his-tory of contract between employrraad employee, at home or abroad, and ia the intelligence and prosperity of joar member," Mr. Depew Mke of the all-prevad-Ing Idea of the paal few year of trust, and aid that thi uolvenat effort to absorb the iudivldual, It) divide th people Into eiiiiiloying eompanie and employees, and to d.-iroy comp'ttrlon, will Inevitably end lu disaster, IlottJ lxgnlatiou and the law of trade will leave only the legitimate enlerpn surviving. "Iu the tame way, aud from the lame cauat', there have Uwn eeveral -bitlou attempts 10 furm gigaoiio tabor trust which should combine under one central authority entry tH-cupatiou In which the wage-earner eould engage. In all iu'h aHK'iaioii of trail, e and occupation, bat lug nothing in common, com-mon, certain ipialitie of audacity, fluency flu-ency of perch and capacity fur manipulating man-ipulating raoeuM) aud contendou. iiuali forward many men whi. know ill la of the great iulrl confided It) their earn. Labor luirnt be a kntrllt gent a capital upon it own ground. 1 lie committee which call upon tbe employer or the railroad officer mot know It own btMini'M a wall a he know hi, oilmrwue from angry coo- tetitiom lifcnuae of Igeoraneu com" the exerciae of brute fore, and violence fail to secure that wbirh in nine out of ten could have been bad by In-lelligent In-lelligent representation. Hundred of committee of our employee have tumn " In are me aud i can My ay. after a full and free diriwion, whicb always took place, that not one of them ever went out of my ottlre except lo carry back a satisfactory meeeag to their constituent. "The rewon for tbe ready settlement settle-ment wa that the nmn understood their own busiuea and kw ,ri:niy what they wautod and how much lh company could afford lo concede, but In the operation of what I niy ay the labor Iru-i I have had different ex-I ex-I perleoce." I Mr. Uepew cited aa Uatasee where) fifteen men at one point 00 the line were ordered out by the chief of their local ewternbty, who wa a shoemaker ami who took that action because he had had a row with a paaoeogcr con doctor. On another occasion a bigti olliclal In the order called upon Mr.lta-pew, Mr.lta-pew, who toon discovered that he knew nothing of what he wa taikiaf about. The (jlti.-hil coufewaed that he had never Ix-en lath railway service ia hU life, "Much repre-nttiv of organised labor," a!d Mr, I pew, "bring it into diarepute, both with the employer and thebulilie. A committee called upon me lM f-.ll with a wri of complaints, all of which were quickly and ratiafact only adjusted, They then oiade a uV m a ml iu twihatf of O10 locomotive engt peer When I informed them tuat your order could apeak for imt, they said their object l break up the -ortrauiation of tofomtxive engineer and gather Into one orinu itioa every department id railway rric, If the management of the New York Ceatral would rcngaiz the engineer ouly through them, ihi rnlt would b brought about and ep"n a much tower boat than tbe brotherhood could admit, and if w did not do o they would ink and tie Hp the road. Mr. ! infrmd Iho committee that I hey might do their worst, but in a matter affecting the llrothrhood he woutd recognize only that body. The , threatened atrike never came. Speaking ef the great Centra! strike. ip-w aid year of successful travel, of fir. frank and friendly diw-uaalon with the employe ot th0w York Central had led them to believe that a strike wa inipoatiole on I hit road. In that truat he wtot abroad oa hi annual holiday, to have hi hope rudely shattered shat-tered by a calitetrrrfii announcing a tnlte. '"Bui the euiiirr."he added, "were true to their retait'io which fr many yerr h;d been estaUiabed. and iMtained and rein v iterated my fa!tr-idg fa!tr-idg faith in the pwaibilily of any effort to loaiatata a tatidactory and 'permanent 'perma-nent understanding between capital and labor. The citUen of New York and of the whole country ewe to tbe brotherhood of locomotive engine? a debt of gratitnd for th courage, tidel- . ityand intelligence with which thev stood by their peeU and ptrijraied their duties during the recent troubles on the New York Central." Pepow touched briefly on the matter of government ownership of railways. V; "Time does not permit,'! he said,, "a discussion of the effects upon our insti-' insti-' tutions of the appointment of a million r public servants being given to an., ad-i ad-i ministration and made the patronage of party bosses." He referred to the letter carriers in j ' England, who worked long hours and i ' , - get on an average $0 a week. After a j vain effort for amelioration of their ! . condition, they struck. The govern-I govern-I ; ment instantly filled their places, put a 1 , .' policeman beside each new man and dispersed a gathering of the old ones. I . f In Germany the government ownsthe y l- ' railroads. The locomotive engineer re-i re-i celves about' $45 a month, and if he de- i serts his engine becomes subject to se- ; vere punishment. I "Libraries have been written upon labor and capital, but they are mostly j trash. In the varying condition of our complex civiliation no general plan eeems possible which will be applicable '' to all cases as a relief for the antago nism between capital and labor. Every ' difficulty must be settled upon its own merits. It is just here that an intelligent intelli-gent labor organization, composed only of the occupation which seeks to secure a right or redress a wrong, can meet its employer upon grounds which will show their mutual dependence and pro , ' mote their oommou beneiit. It is just j here that ignorance or incompetence on the one, produces imitation and re- I . sistance on the other. The period ought I i '. to eome when the employees in an in- !, dustry snail not be arrayed in hostile ' . camps over the whole country against , ' their employers in the same business; when combinations will not be of ' workers on the one hand and officials ;' on the other against each other, but, with good sense and friendly dlsposi-V dlsposi-V tiops they shall meet upon a common ground for a common good and with an ' . overwbelmning sense of common inter-i inter-i : est."- j ; ' 'J- The brotherhood of locomotive en-i en-i gineers held a secret session this morn-J morn-J i ing. i The official report stated this afternoon that the engineers would not ' federate. The grand oQlcerg will be jj instructed, however, to confer with the ;t ' officials of the federation and report I ' some method whereby the organizations may work not only in harmony and if possible in conjunction in case of trouble. The oflicers will report at the . next meeting. This action will bo in ' the nature of a compromise between ', the older and younger members. i |