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Show piTPARllS I ARE INVOLVED jniways Figure in Labor ft Controversies. Employer, Employed, Public, fatter Eventually Casting ft. Deciding Vote. Ktandlng Committee Episcopal Con-EC Con-EC vention Submits Inteicst-wtL Inteicst-wtL ing Report. ??OSTON. Oct. 19. Both houses of the ifcplscopal general convention which was Caponed on October 5 havo voted hi favor Mjfflnal adjournment Tuesday next. Kin the house of bishops the standing committee on the relations of capital and fiabor, of which Bishop Henry C. Potter ef New Tork la chairman, presented Its report. The commission was appointed By,, the general convention of 1901 to Study the. purposes of labor organizations rto Investigate the causes of Industrial disturbances and to hold themselves In readiness to act aa arbitrators should their services be desired. fcThe report says that no request for notion no-tion as arbitrators has been received and that the committee has not. aa yet, succeeded suc-ceeded In studying in common the occa-ilous occa-ilous of current disturbances. KWliat Report Says. !''e are-hcreed, however." the report says, "Jn the conviction that the causes pf: the violence of the past three yeura In-Pennsylvania, In Colorado and' In Illinois, Il-linois, ale not so much economical as moral The slrlkt-s commonly begins In .'distrust. The reason at the heart of It Ia that the master has as little eonll-dchee eonll-dchee In the good will of tho men as the 'men have In the good faith of the master. mas-ter. Where distrust and antagonism are TrJell founded, there Is nothing for' It. ao far as the church Is concerned, except one version R Three Parties Always In. '-We perceive among our clergy and fiUy aljke. much ignorance, frankly confined con-fined and deplored, as to the principles jrhlch are Involved In the conflicts of tho ridustrlal world, livery industrial dls- Kute' Involves three parties the employer, ie, employed and the public, and the pub-ti; pub-ti; eventually easts the deciding vote. Thus a serious social responsibility rests pon every Christies citizen, and more especially upon tne Christian minister. x Analogy Between Offenses. K'M'e call attention to the analogy between be-tween certain offenses of the union and like offenses, past or present, of both the capitalist and the churchman Thus the employers' blacklist corresponds to tho union's boycott. Tho lockout and itlie strike arc of tho same nature. The rqutatlon of the closed shop Is like the question of the closed State, iron whose jP.urltan ancestors strove to maintain a State whose privileges should belong only 4to members of tho church, ought to be ablo to understand the struggle of their jbjethren and to maintain a shop In which iiio man shall serve except a member of the union BWliat Labor Has Learned. "They may not ogreo with these brolh- Ien. but they ought to appreciate their fit-sacrifice. Tho laborer has learned fom the capitalist to despise order and reak law Ho has learned from the hurchnian to pursue the dlssentor with menace and violence. Tho recent trag-iedles trag-iedles In Colorado do not follow at a far distance tho massacres which In the sixteenth six-teenth century ensued upon tho with-lOrawal with-lOrawal of Holland from the ecclesiastical fitnlon. I Tyranny Condemned, 3"Whll6, then, wo condemn the tyranny and turbulence of tho labor 'union and upon the law to nrcscrvo tho liberty f. fv.crj' CHI"1 to employ whom ho will (ana to work for whom ho will, we de-jrcea de-jrcea e the hasty temper which. In eon-imnlng eon-imnlng the errors of tho unions, condemns con-demns at the samo llmo the wholo move-:?nt move-:?nt ?nh wh,ch lnc' are connected. ,lhs offences of the union aro as distinct Vhe, ?uso' for whlch tnc organiza-'i organiza-'i ?i ?.f laor "tand3 the inquisition (. distinct from the gospel. & Labor Organization Essential. 1.2? faco of a prejudice and a bos-iUIS bos-iUIS tor wh,ch thoro aro serious rea-V rea-V convinced that tho organl-ffi? organl-ffi? Jf01" ,s. W8cnt'aJ to the well-wf well-wf uCtha Yns PeP'e. Its pur-ma'n pur-ma'n aln such a standard of ffirS ea',hourH and conditions aa shall af-H af-H Pry ma,n 5" opportunity to grow tatM, an? ,n hJe'Lrt- without organl-Jn organl-Jn tv ,MBnJard cannot bo maintained icondltlons "r 2,rcscnt commercial f Child Labor Condemned. kwo?St nt aclusl0,n condemns the mills h-f 1 chl,ldron in factories and Potter win.i0rtT,B 8lpncd i He"ry C. d7ElJV,Tla,nrIawr8nC0' Charles P. 5i&K?r.t adopted and a rcsolu-X rcsolu-X ,d? ,ifl commission be continued 2 5 adopted by tho house of bishops. |