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Show "THE STRIKE IS HELL" SAYS BISHOP SPALDING ULgli Catholtc Dignitary Discusses Proposed, ArWtra- ' tion Law Pending in Congress. ' dency to socialism Is only In a minor way. He regarded a permanent tribunal trib-unal of greater value than one created tor each case of dispute. He did not believe, he said. In sym- 1 pathy strikes when asked if he wouid deny labor organisations to strike was the one weapon of labor organizations, and to deny that right would be to deny the right to organise, but the great object ob-ject sooght. he added. Is to bring about peaceful settlements without strikes. Labor organisations, he said, bad accomplished ac-complished much good. He is satisfied that any Piesident would appoint a non-partisan tribunal. He bad asked Mr. Mitchell It labor organisations would thrive if they lost the approve! of public opinion, and Mr. Mitchell replied re-plied that they would not, but would disintegrate. - WASHINGTON, April 7. Bishop Spalding of Peoria, a member of the anthracite coal strike commission, yesterday yes-terday urged the plan lot arbitration contained In the Foss bill before the House Committee on Labor. The bill provides for a permanent board of arbitration, to which shall be referred disputes between labor and capital. j Answering questions by Acting Chair- I man Vreeland, Bishop Spalding said it was not his opinion that the proposed tribunal would ever be called upon to determine the. question of .what la legitimate profit for the Investment of capital. Its province would be to settle disputes as to hours, treatment and pay of employees by the employer. A fair wage, he said, was demanded in the soft coal mines of the West by the conditions In the mines and the cost of living. Where a business did not permit of a living wage according to the American standard of living, that business ought to close up, declared de-clared the Bishop. "I would say," he continued, ai Sherman said of war, "that the strike is helL" Men who went out on a strike went back injured morally, and not the same men. The children .of strikers bad been taught to taunt children of other workmen. The condition between capital cap-ital and labor was not improving, he said, although he believed the anthracite anthra-cite coal strike commission had accomplished ac-complished good results. He referred to the present labor troubles In Colorado, Colo-rado, San Francisco and Chicago. These conditions were blocks to bettering the general conditions of the country. "It was becoming more and more manifest that capital and labor were Interdependent on each other." Asked if he did not think that conditions con-ditions were Improving as to lawlessness. lawless-ness. Bishop Spalding said that It did not seem so to any extent. He said the riotous conditions during the anthracite an-thracite strike were not as bad In this respect as the newspapers bad made them, although there was picketing and always would be In strikes. "I dont think there is in America any class of employers who deliberately do their men wrong," declared Bishop Spalding. The Bishop said he believed the American people to be a people of good will toward labor and the distressed. He believed the people free from anarchistic anar-chistic Ideas and said that the ten- |
