Show labor warfare destroys industry which gives life to employers and workers by MT STEWART chief statistician Statistic iao U S bureau of laor labor kii there tharo can call bo be no industrial peace until both sides to a labor argument want industrial peace and when both sides really want peace and not a fl ight lit a settlement is bound to come there must bo a concession on loth sides and a willingness on oil both bolli sides libido by a settlement but unfortunately in america it that there is ia a largo large clas of men inen liy no means confined cither to the alio laboring or to the capitalistic class who prefer fighting for its own sake to industrial peace and all that such peace means hack back in ili 1886 1880 tho stove Foundry men and ilia iron molders union locked horna with the manufacturers in ili ilia stove industry it began with alie bridge beach strike in st louis and soon involved the entire country they fought until both sides were utterly exhausted and each cadi bad barely a sin single lo breath left finally both sides used that last breath to say let us forget it they saw that if abay did not stop slop then and stop forever alio ho stove industry would go to pieces and for r the salvation of tile the industry to which they till all owed lifo life they canic camo together settled their differences appointed committees of arbitration fr from oni both sides and established machinery for the settlement of nil all disputes that might possibly to ariso arise in ili ilia future each year since that timo time these have met and adjusted amicably all ilia differences in the stove industry however that is ilia alio only industry in ili ilia united states which lias has been nt at peace for thirty years the ilia only industry which apparently lias has fl learned earned that warfare is destructive not so much to tile individuals who participate in it as is it is destructive to the very industry itself when that fact is ia once firmly grasped by all strikers and by all lockers out disturbances will depreciate astoundingly |