Show a I W j s sis r Tim as jo to Mill and Non NonUnion NonI CHICAGO AND ITS STRIKES Union Man MII ami Il NonUnion 10 of r Unions I I I jP I and Who ho Would Shoot to tn Kill 1 os Vast Int Population Tim of o Municipal 4 i MAYOR MA Oil HARRISON I TALKS ABOUT F DISCUSSING CAPITAL AND LABOR I I Tho Lk Hie J M I I 11 11 nfl AI th thi U 11 hICO i ag MI t 4 ny In n ne fl il lh till III St r Chicago ChI t II I 1 than one I c it hIls ruled rb jtb tit at t ot or it Its most moat the JI R se d I 1 uller Car Cal Card t I I 1 d I p hM for or the ttO lr I thriven under uner un v II II h I 1111 tIu tho leI e U 11 on lilt 1111 M ad ud adB jr c his bIB UN t s r It II rollIS IB bigger r It I B II 1 I Ing p 3rd j i ot nt s tr S wa It ot of otI Irl d I Iii I nn i ilI f h S hm YOU fling them 10 munIcIpAl ot of all com J J I la ther WaS thu th It t who on O t of he II l II H t fon United OIt pr ot or I the Yli u t bC th pr was wan Tt T nr or gla tf John it tt III Mt hll Hen lIell on O or Of Ir or O II Nfl a father r own to HI lr haIIM nd io them rift SI or to carry carr tU c or OV THE THI MAVon ot of Is III n a ru te r old mYor or lie He lB Is 6 1 tIp chiP ct cf the Is but bUI t the th is nd II nd lIe SIL a u man lit Ut Is 8 ready really to II Cl i te e the tito business In the lawS attacked i nil a lIuch lie he taU are a part ot grist which Is isbIt tunI out the up bIt UC tm mill Willes ot of f and nether ther Indeed It mn may be be bc anI n labor that ho he Is tired Is 15 so 50 lie he tells me that At tf 01 job retire wants to 10 hr t is 1 IG x an and or o Is no small be and its itA havo begun to huir with gray mayors le the lh SundaY Bunda school tI Ii to need care ir and Its It people ion The city eI covers a II vast vastI It as I MO miles of at streets 2 2000 It anti and it costs about U 32 tf 01 B Ieter r 1 to pEW Its running ex C X a year war has Th The mayor IS him and there thero lire are also the thc city and Id subordinate hut but t It who does the tho think Harrison rl on II 1 ll tl id sl actIng an arni It t is he ho who Erets ti th blunt CHICAGO THE STRIKE C Be Tte 11 n of t my m call was Oll as to ask ito the tile labor situation I 1 began Mr DIr lr Mayor Maor why ty U IA Chicago the tha Ci center of ot the United States hero herc than ire more labor troubles Ibur II any other place In the country I ue One 0 r awn said Mayor Harrison li 11 thaI Hit v we t do more business than any tiny o other r place and also that our business tre Chicago Is I center oC of tha tho United Stilt tatt It has treat great factories of or almost for tor or M I III lends the country In Iron Iroll making In but wo we 0 have 1110 the Illinois Steel company here which Is one une of or the largest In tn tho ti world lorl orld l lWe We Ve do dc more packing than any other uther city and wo we 0 hays have cur car works furniture works and In tact fact almost a every ever kind of ot work The Ih result Is that It If there here Is III Isa isa a n In any nil branch of or business s the Chicago branch of ot that business strikes In sympathy This gives us n tt variety of ot strikes which are AIO magnified by b some ome of ot the th whose sensational are aro telegraphed all over tho the country a Tim DEAD Then Chicago Is not as bad as nil It Is painted 7 ald I INo INo INo No It Is la hot not replied Mayor horn Harri Harrison son It Is not nn angel city hut It Is III far file rain being boing the th devil city that ona om WhO have never liever been here think It to be b On the whole It Is I about as na asgood good goad n it city cit as any In the country and auth just about 1 us ns full foil of ot Christian charity charilY common decency nc good order and lInd broth brotherly erly eniy erl love But Hut you ou certainly have many violent InCH 11 Mr Mayor How about this stopping funerals und stationing pickets the thc houses of or th Ih dead to 10 keep keel nonunion men inch from train aiding In III their thell interment nt Most Moat of ot those 0 stories art nrc lie II stud paid Mayor Harrison Tho The union drivers did dill lint lIot refuse to drive hearses hale us 1111 K titus has been They ritsy would not drive tho c but bul It 1011 us the liverymen who lucid heM back the hearses paying they thc would not let them theft go out nut without the thc carriages wont went too loo All such Buch state statements sIn It meats ments yore were As ta to pick cling tho the lend dead tutu nil noon nn nil I heard there was us any My danger of ot such Buch n IL u think thin I ordered the tho to see flee that no iw or persons persona with evil Intent were allowed to linger about within two blocks of ot any house In III which there thero sva n a death cr or within that distance of a church where a n funeral ceremony was vas being held And Amid then continued tho the mayor why Ih single singh out Chicago for thc the HOle HOO condemnation of or thc the public when other cities have havo been equally guilty ns ts to In respect to funerals Tim The same WM wan the case In St I Louis hut but BO so rill fur Chicago hAS ban received all tho the op opprobrium and St Louis IH is hardly men TilE THE IN I CHICAGO How does your our labor compare with that of ot other cities ns na to peace amid It Is just about the same said Mayor Harrison If It wo we e have more strikes strike It Is III only because we wo have hac more men and more business How about tho the nonunion man haH hAI ho lie any chance for tor work In III Chicago Y S 9 We have havo a largo large number of ot es os establishments establishments which employ nonunion men mell only and many which employ both Mth unionists and The Thc non lIOn nonunion union worker not hot only gets a I Job joh here Jut lilt ut ho bo Is IB protected In It Il nil all statements to tho the contrary notwithstanding Could a it nonunion factory be started in 11 Chicago with uny any hope of ot success Yen Ys If It that success depended 1 solely on the HBO us of or nonunion workmen Its men would not hot be molested molest 1 and It would have havo ns lis fair ft II hos In that re regard regard gard no rims any union factory AH As to the financial results these would lie Me with the tho owners of ot tho the business nail and their thereof NA A L I H HH H t 1 H H H HI H 1 I H IIII III i r I r T T r J r h 6 61 r rT n mi L J JH t tI tF 1 a T TL t F I or 1 I 1 1 1 L L s 1 I MI MII I T Tf T LE f I A 1 A I 1 J Jj j r T J c II III I Jl or orf f t f f 1 V t rt I y t J if 1 4 t tI I I 1 y I II H I H Ir HMM t 1 t H II H H H HI MAYOli IOk MA VOlt ISON OF Ol I CHICAGO Do you ou think Mr lr Ir Harrison that trade unionism has hns on tho the whole belie bene benefited the tho workmen of ot o Chicago Yes I do replied tho tim mayor I think organized labor lahov has liaa done much lItuch to Improve tho condition or of o our OUI working clauses classes It hns luns them to be hc more respected It has hUM Increased their wages and shortened their hours of ot work ork At Atthe Atthe the same lIno time limo I Oo do not deny that or ui organized labor hay hat abused its 1111 privileges This It hums has clone domie nt at times hut but I have hal no doubt that on tho the whole the tho move movement ment meat huts lias been for fOI the tho good of ot the class of or unionists and antI I II I ABOUT TUB TIlE I II I Hut can cnn you hold hoM tho timo union men melt back bock from noun violence at nt times at strikes 1 I do not like tho thin form forni of or that Hint ques question question tion said the thc young mayor or The Tho union disclaim nil all responsibility for acts of ot violence I will say wiy It however that 10 vo can Call hold mind and do hold every COr hot hothead hothead head the Iho strikers In cheek check amid that t wo we propose to do so o It If It requires the whole police force of ot the city ell In III our last great railway strike the tho th lead ors ers of or the unions cune 0 to mo me before tim tho strike wits declared and wild said that It would be bo run nut on peaceful methods hes I 1 soon found that certain were attacking the ears cars and nd trying to tG prevent their moving AAA I then called out alit tile force Corce I put a I certain number of tiC In rill clothes In car and they thy went with mich auch or non noll nonunion nonunion union men as Its rode en fn the urH to their homed to Insure their protection The Illi ty ov the tile public and lIHI tho thio nonunion workmen certainly had tho tIm protection of ot the tho city ellIn In that strike It ItI I was the same mime in III th tho Kellogg Switchboard Switch Switchboard board company strike where wo we w pro pio prohibited army any nn outside le teams coming with within in III n a certain distance of ot the tho factory Hut flut do thu not the tho courts lucre hero discriminate bate In favor tAvor of or time the th trades tradeR unions I The he trades tIll R unionists tire ore always claiming that the contrary IH Is tho the tact fact said Mici the tho mayor No Mo I 1 dont think so soWe soWe soe We e have a n bad system of or punishments here herc allowing the judges jU to give lode hide terminate terminal sentences that Is III they the send n II man to prison for tor a term hn ld upon good behavior anti And this opens up tip i chances for Influence or 01 pull na ns It la is 1 called coiled to aid ahl In Jn his hili release That flint how however however I Iter ever ter Is III nn an evil of ot the law and amul not of ot I tIme the executive NEE I fm OF 00 GOLDEN GOIDE One great troubles In these conflicts of ot labor amid capital capilli I Mr Harrison went on In is that both labor laborer er or and anel capitalist are arc too often Illiberal brutal or to say tuy the least beast too orate erato of ot the thc rights right of ot tho th other I IA IA AA A AAA AA j A A A A wish I could show you the letters I 1 get Ift from both sides sIdo I 1 have some from tim tho thomen men denouncing their thell employers mid and I 1 have Ilie toino omne ole from the employers advis adla lug Ing III me rue 1 to o quell fluell strikes by h means IMIS of or guns rules und and cold stool Some Somo of or them auk ask mo Imie le to have the tho police live lire at nt the tue mob and shoot hoot to kill ki Such men are orno than Urn tIm tho worst of ot the strikers Iro ers cis IS It 1 does nm mo 10 good tood to write them what I think of ot them thel No 0 concluded the mayor what we e need mined Is II more inure lore con consideration on 01 both sides Wo Vo want more moore brotherly love We WI want the thc Golden JUiles s lint Hut Mr Ir Mayor Mavor Is tho the situation sulton not nt growing bettor belter I think It II Is I was WIS as the tho reply The Tho 1 he older unions ate arc becoming more moore conser conservative conservative tle and tho the employers are beginning to lo see pee that the lh demands of ot the th Ih working workingmen men Ien after all ni are arc only business hosed based on Oti the tho sale ealo of ot their com corn commodities that Is II tho the muscle and skill which they the imo have to put lout it Into the tho two pro product duct and amid that the matter In ter should be ns its 18 n a 1 business one ono onono HOW no LONG IONG MEN ME wom IN CHI CHICAGO INn I CI CAGO You Vou ou spoke p of ot the time unions shortening hours Mr Harrison arrison What Is the tha com coma common common mon moo working tIny day In Chicago reply rely It I I t Is II the eight hour tiny day lIlY was as the time AA A 1 M Hut tan On an n it big it j t like hike Ik this be bC rim mon rimon Jl monon on an bIPs I W wt are II it co o 0 All 1 go rl meat Jobs ar are en out Olt nn ni that 1 basl baslI K KI I I 1 f s it t that your labor tum tumbles ti I Ibl bles bl R i re ro driving out oUI of Chi Ct ChiCHKO lIIN I 1 il ut t It I replied the mayor At any au rate mtr the tie city elly is II growing rapid rapidly ly hy our far tori are RIC increasing In 11 clue ie amid moan II I new leI HUM ore are urt going up UJ We o I II I In II a it healthy health condition mind and ant our bu lne l h is growing very every yea luiO 11 1 n lila HIG Win I is ma your population now l 1 ask ri d j It II 1 i more flier thuan was 11 the tha re r ph pl pl The fhe federal gives Kh ti 11 l 11 halt but th cen census u and tho the directory I give III UK us 11 more mort Ve We haw hate ha ul 1110 o nil ins on tim tho umbel number of 0 school schoolchildren children makes 8 our population considerably ID In excess of o I III be federal In is II paid for fat by ly the lit num nurn number her ber of ot nime nones and Hod In a population cuts con coning Col ing HS as ll 1 as a a Chicago tl thi c 10 hat probably skipped ip they IY not nt take lake tho trouble to statements Nij nl tO fO 0 KI 1 AIU AJ r rJ J I h hd ft Harrison n govern as R a to order In II Chicago 11 a t I view vw IW to 10 o learning something of the tit fl at lt if the city 11 11 lie II said lall 1 I 1 do co not think Chicago Is II nay any vorse than Any other city it or of the tho United I 1 nil d StatcH 11 It I IH hi II a 1 Rood good fair average ind Ill its people will 11 grade up UI with thune tIiu of or orni sun any ni other locality one reason for or th hind had reputation which the city el hits hiu hil In its sonic some quarters rom counts H from room their non muon of ot our bigness bIM We Va him now over or OoOO people jf If I a iu 1 dU of or has hns two tIO assaults in II a 1 given time It no 10 attention but If It Chicago which has hns ooOO humus has hll 20 2 assaults they thio hold nold hol up their hands In horror herror not re r rm fleeting that this number IH II only ni pro pr I tho the saint name as lS that of ot th tIme I 1 town tow II Aw As Al to safety I hll been In Chicago about years ant and have hate ha e been ben traveling through all al Parts partH of ot It nt itt nil ni of ot tho tine day du and amid night I navor carry n a gun Kun and an have never liever leer thought that I needed one A mans omans life I and person ore are or ns as n Rte ine here II a na In lY tart part of ot the time United States A VAST YAS FLOATING FIOrIO POPULATION I There Theu Is III one cue ot timing thing continued he the mayor that might aught Chicago inoru amoro lively thou than other cities dUel Is its UI vast ast st floating population Wi Wl are aie no Mo 10 situated that have of ot we e tens of at men for tor the he winter We Wc mire lira right righton on oil tho lie lake bite anti and a 1 large part of 01 the lie vast army nn of ot lake lak Iak workers come romo mere hera 11 rt at Lit tt tho time close of or navigation to sprint what they thoy have hlo earned during tIne the r rest st of ot tIme tho year eur Wo o have hae thousands of railroad workers Including Italians timid others who ho labor In hI tho tIme summer and fall tol on 01 tho time various trunk lines going as 11 far west as us tho the anti and wo we 0 havo hlo the th tie men who work tOrk on the thc lie founts fauns In II tho the summer Tile Tha result resul Is that We wo have many men maca who are half hAlt idle during the tho winter and auth 1111 cuch euch men muon tie uio always hard to control MUNICIPAL What hat do you 01 think Mr Ir Mayor Inor said naldI saidI I r about the tho be city el ownership of at great public utilities such as ni tho thin street curs cars AA A A AA I i IB I J 1 anti and lIght plants k kI 5 1 I imie b In thI fM th Ihl mayor r I but I think that till ni u Ih h rs should i ite i it te t very Cf mind and that nothing ijo be hI dOl until the city clY 4 show s it ha huM hUl UK thE capacIty to 10 man mun manae t UKe ae I I them th m I think the day Ila will wi COIt will wi mn own such luh As AsIt i It I Is I we are now putting u a In tn nil an our new charters giving alvin the Ih city I 1 ni the th option opton of taking over the th plant after fter 1 a certain number of or years ell THE TRl r rI I I should Ilk ll t 1 lk n a word about abut Mr Mi h ol said Raid Ild I Do Du you ou think thin tho III Democratic party lists hns hf u it fighting chance for tor success In the Ih com 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