Show WORKMENS SIDE OF STORY President Gompers of American Federation Fed-eration of labor Delivers on Address Ad-dress Upon This Topic Mountain Lake Park Md Aug 16 Several thousand persons greeted Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor who delivered de-livered an address today before the Chautaunua assembly on Labor and Capital and the Workmans side of the Story President Mitchell of the United MineWorkers of America who was also to have spoken was unable to be present because of the serious situation situa-tion In the anthracite fields Mr Gompers prefaced his remarks by saying that the average mind looks contrary on labors side of the question ques-tion The newspapers without any attempt on my part to charge them with unfairness usually present the labor question from the standpoint of Jhe employer They either got their Information from employers or their representatives It Is the same old story tlic men and women the representatives repre-sentatives oC labor who suffer from the same old wrong There is no shortcut short-cut Jo emancipation Mr Gompers declared that the labor of young and innocent children is the great evil that needs reformation Many States particularly in the South have no law whatever to prevent the practice Men get rich he declared from the labor of children whose bones are ground Into the almighty dollar It is a sad commentary Men walk the streets In idleness In the textile tex-tile districts while the mills arc tilled with busy children Instead of labor being crowned with honor and dignity it k I a question of how much labor can lie squeezed out of the laborer and how little wageshe can be forced to accept in return Mr Gompers discussed the question of shorter hours at length declaring the countries of long hours were decidedly de-cidedly backward and denied the allegation alle-gation that 17 t movement to shorten hours would mean the decadence of the United States as a great producing power He declared that there was no greater conservator of the peace than time labor organization One hundred rind fifty thousand men in I the an I hi rut ci4 field have been engaged en-gaged In a silent struggle for three months and there has been less violence vio-lence than Is committed at a picnic of ordinary people upon ordinary occasions occa-sions The men struggling today had been reduced lo a state of serfdom but In the t past three t yea is have been itcast and heir characters remodeled Their manhood Is aroused and I be liovc as God Is my judge the worst the miners have had to confront is past pastMr Campers declared that the lawyer law-yer was Incompetent to discuss the Industrial In-dustrial question The lawyer lives in and studies the past he declared Wliiie big framed physically formed he is mentally In the dark ages This observation was brought out by the alleged lenmrk of Mr Ross a legal lepresentatlve of the Delaware LaeJca wan miii t Western lailroad I I recently that I there can be no arbitration that lie i miners must first return to work and then I the companies will discuss wllh them t We demand time right to bo represented by counsel declared the speaker Just imagine the miner being forced back to work with all grievances he may have Incl squeezed and starved out of him Mr Gomper predicted the success of the anthracite strike |