Show PRESIDENT ELIOT OF HARVARD TilES TAKES REMARKABLE STAND AGAINST UNION LABOR SARGENT TAKES UP CUDGELS Latter Declares Collegians Collegian's Assumptions Are All Alli t i Wrong and Defends L t the Organized Laboring k k Men of Country if BOSTON Nov No 11 Before It-Before Before the Eco- Eco i J club of ot Boston at nt their theil banquet last Jat night President Eliot of ot Harvard 1 j denounced the labor unions of the countr country country coun- coun tr try as opposed to the education of oC for what he termed young men and their th lr fight against the development of manly Instincts In closing he chars charI char- char s I 1 th the strike breaker or scab as he called him bun as a good type atthe of at the American n hero President Eliot said present ent condl- condl Indicated that man many years ears must pat pass s before the labor question Is satisfactorilY satisfactorily satis satis- solved Both sides must make conc concessions and adopt some plan I Ithe The principal cipal objection to the the- labor unions from roni the educators educator's point of oC view ic he t said ald was their objection to oung men becoming competent m mechanics me me- and that th they do prevent thIsIe this Jo Je evident from Crom the fact that all unions I 1 VOl to limit the number of or ap- ap renti cs employed In an any Industry The right to labor Is considered the most sacred right of or the American citizen citi- citi zen len President Eliot's Ellot objection to the la labor labor la- la bor union was ws he said that the obJect object object ob ob- ob- ob of oC the union seemed to be work as fw few hours bours as aa possible produce as littie lit Ht- 1 tie as possible Juring that time and andI I k h to receive as much mone money as possible for the service ser given This attitude was In effect nothing more than a constant con- con stant fight against the he development of manly Instincts He said he had a profound contempt for tor any man who 1 did not choose to labor do eVer every day Just Justas as Ion long as his strength would permit F F. 1 P. P SARGENT TAKES TAXES ISSUE WITH WITE ELIOT ON THE MATTERS DISCUSSED J 7 P 1 4 I fI do not agree with President Eliot I LI raid paid ald Mr Frank Frani p P. P S Sargent United States fJon t of oC Immigration ami U former t f r ht tie the Broth Brotherhood rh od of oC Kj I Firemen to the Telegram r f when hen shown shon the above Associated Press I dispatch today Mr Eliot is a smart I r. r man but whEn he makes such uch a stat statement state state- C. C ment he goes beyond the bonds of oC reson re- re rei rca rca- L son lion No 00 class or of men In the United States 1 4 are more an anous anIous to have their children I receive a good education than the members of labor Jabor unions President Eliot probably alludes to the rule that h has hs 9 been established b by man many of ot the labor Jabor unions to the effect that no apprentice can ean take lake the place of a Journeyman until he has fully qualified and that he cannot then take lake the place of a Journeyman unless he is paid a Journeyman's wages This rule was adopted simply as a matter of oC protection pro pro- not only to the laboring men but to the people generally Prior to the adoption of oC the rule man many employers employ employ- ers era discharged Journeymen and put In unskilled apprentices because they could employ them at a lower scale le of or wages I was for seventeen years grand grandmaster grandmaster master ter of the Brotherhood of dive tl Firemen and I know that that isone Isone is isone one labor Jabor organization which is well thought of b by employers Many 1 a m. m of the labor unions have induced induced in- in their employers to grant them theman an el hour eight hour hl-hour da day I believe e in a n. reasonable reasonable rea rea- rea- rea time of toil toll each da day and I most of the employers in the countr country are of the sa same me opinion I do not agree agree with Mr Ir Eliot and I think his charges a against the laboring m men n are entirely without foundation |