Show i A COLLEGE MAN fAN ON LABOR President Eliot of Harvard Harar 1 takes a n view diametrically dia dia- metrically opposite to that of Bishop Potter anent trade unionism The Tue Harvard man sadly needs to mingle with the masses and note the difficulties which burden their lives and break their spirit He TIe would find new light fl fo 10 guide him His asseveration asseveration tion that the labor unions are opposed in in any manner man man- ner ncr shape or form to education is unaccountably erroneous They are indeed opposed to that sort of education that makes work less respectable in th students' students eyes And we have Im much of that especially espe espe- daIly at Yale and Harvard But Rut who docs does not know that Samuel Gompers president of the American Ameri Amen can Federation of Labor is a great advocate ocate of popular pop ular education Surely President Eliot's statements statements state state- ments were unreliable While there is a degree of truth in the charge that labor unions endeavor to limit the number of apprentices such action is on the par of normal schools medical colleges and other other oth oth- er cr institutions which try by limitation to raise the standard of excellence The higher the qualifications qualifications qualifications required to enter into full lull standing in a trade or on profession the better for that trade or on profession All An candidates will then try to perfect themselves es But the one great reat object of trade unionism is to resist resist re reo re- re the inevitable inc oppression of capital which in inthe inthe inthe the hands of such men as Morgan is mightier than an any earthly potentate President Eliot will be wiser after aftel he shall have heard from the country on his remarkable address |