| Show T A t U loti S President Eliot of Harvard Sa s Their Purpose is to Create a Monopoly in Labor CONDITION OF COMBAT EXISTS Angels Could Not t Use the And Strike Without Somewhat Demoralized a Mass May Io 4 t Methods of or modern r trade hao again been attacked and those of ot employers com lom commended mended 11 by hy Dr Charles W Eliot dent I nt of ot university In an 1111 ad nil address dress d delivered before the he I social 80 science committee n Harvard student organ organization In III the Iho audience were prominent labor leaders Tho actual Industrial organization in the tho United mates I lIot Is In III largo luro measure a II dual or 01 for tOl combat Within the last two t wn years this Industrial combat hUll has become come mora moio intense though less vio violent lent the tho linn organization or of ot many associations of ut employers and a now unlike ordinal warfare throat threat threatens ens ilK to 10 bo ha Incessant the combatants agreeing t to truces eK hut but never making peace JI nce Its IlK evils me 11 e pervasive chronic always at ones very door This Thill condition of o combat ought to Ioe transitional trun find and temporary for tor real public happiness cannot possibly grow crow out of at It associations of ot employers which for tor purposes of ot must act as us units under the direction of at one man or of ot a small group of ot men abridge liberty the liberty of ot each In Individual employer to utilize his hili own IP advantages In n competing with other men who are in the some busi busl business ness The habitual effort of at trade unions to create a II monopoly In labor each In III Us It I own trade Is a hostile ho effort against tho community as fiB a 1 whole for tOl they thoy by hy this means their own pecuniary ary benefit at nt the expense of at the rest relit of at the community Tho rhe boycott Is a II method of ot combat which Is eminently a I method of at ill I will It Is IR n 11 gross Interference with a II Jut Industrial liberty As H they have grown powerful the tho have themselves become ivo and and ami their former al altruistic spirit has hils been corrupted by class selfishness ss Tho ho plain tact fact Is that the tho of at nonunion men tho strike In sympathy or In III support and the tho boycott are aie weapons which angels and saints could not use without bo be boIng Ing demoralized |
