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Show , ""inn OHug-HlGCrilOH G&nSB 1 ' I Ttc:3:rc Staffer Declares There Hast Be a Ecttcr Understating of Trco Interests. educators, business men and leaders of organized labor. They aim to procure ' Indus-trial peace, equitable divisions of earnings, proper conditions, better citizenship citi-zenship and corrected government. ."I declare positively my belief Jn Socialism So-cialism and Communism, wisely understood under-stood and Intelligently expressed, but when based upon human passion, animal ani-mal desire. Ignorant understanding .or malignantly and viciously entertained and declared, as against It." COLUMBL'Sr O., May i. "Just as long as labor seeks redress for wrongs by violence, so certainly will labor continue con-tinue to suffer wrong." . "The Nation must, discard' warfare and advance the cause of peace. "Labor in organized form must possess pos-sess wealth, not to employ in warfare, but as a menace and threat against capital." These are some of the emphatic assertions as-sertions made in the preamble to the report of President Theodore Shaffer of the Amalgamated association. The report re-port continues: "The investor of capital has certain rights which we must grant, but at the same time he must recognise and grant to us conditions wJiich belong to us, because, without our co-operation, he cannot succeed, and as a coadjutor we aball be without employment If he be , 4ot with us. f '"The time has come, and I believe it j i propitious, when capital and labor, I In organized capacities, must unite to oppose and defeat the purposes of their common enemies. This union has been started, but has not yet attained the atrength it must have to protect the interests in-terests of the employer and the employed. em-ployed. The union to which I refer is the Civic Federation, composed of statesmen, clergymen, philanthropists. |