Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 7 | Would End Strife of Capital and Labor

WOULD END STRIFE OF CAPITAL AND LABOR Peter W. Collins Delivers Lecture Under Un-der Auspices of Knights of Columbus. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN', May IS. Peter W. Collins, who Is making a lecture tour of the United States under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus, declared before an audience at the Weber academy tonight that strife between capital and labor was at the bottom of the problem which he had announced for discussion, "What Is Y rong With the World?" The speaker advocated trade agreements that would enable both parties to remedy the situation. situa-tion. Mr. Collins pointed to the unemployment unemploy-ment situation as being another evil which the nation was facing. Unemployment Unemploy-ment he1 attributed to the improper distribution dis-tribution pf labor, through glutting of the labor markets of industrial centers, at he cost of the rural districts, which he said "went begging." Under the present pres-ent system, he declared, there were actually more jobs than there were men to fill them. W. S. O'Brien introduced Mayor A. R. Hey wood, who presided and introduced Mr. Collins to an audience composed of city and county officials, representatives of local churches, ministers and other prominent citizens. Mr. Collins arrived at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and was met by a committee of Ogden knights, composed of W. S. O'Brien, Dr. .1. P. Dineen, Charles A. Magulre, R. Morrissey and John A. Junk. Mr, Collins leaves today to lecture in Ely, and McGill, Nev., returning to Utah Monday. Me will lecture in Park City Monday night and in Salt .Lake Tuesday night. . . -