| Show ANDREW CARNEGIE THE labor trouble at homestead pa is evoking a great deal of criticism and comment andrew carnegie to la handled without gloves by many newspapers news p apers and by several prominent politicians and agitators it should be remembered that mr carnegie is now in europe and ought tp p be heard from before he is held responsible for what has taken place in his absence heretofore he be has been seriously embroiled in labor troubles in his bis article on capital and labov labor in a recent number dumber of the forum he speaks like a sen sible liberal common bommon sense capit capitals alst he says in that article my experience has been that trades unions u upon n the whole are beneficial both to la labor or and capital they certainly educate the t workingman and give eive him a truer conception of the relations of es capital ital and labor than hie he could otherwise wase form the ablest and best workmen eventually come to the front in these theme organizations and it may be laid down as a rule that the more intelligent the workman the fewer the contests contents with employers further on in the same article he says 1 I have noticed that the manager who confers ofte oft enest neat with a committee of his bis leading men has the least trouble with his workmen workman I 1 therefore recognize in trades unions in organizations of the men who select representatives to speak for them a menus means not of further ambit bering the relations between employer and employed but of improving them these utterances do not dot savor of absolutism or tyranny and it may be that their author does not approve of the methods of those who have charge in his bis absence it is true mr frick who to is the manager of the homestead works is well known as an opponent of organized labor he has already figured in troubles of this kind in the coke regions and by the aid of pink erton ism has been comparatively ely successful cess ful pinkerton Pia kerton is not a new name in pennsylvania he it was wag who organ zed the coal and iron police of that region in the interest of capitalists capit alieta how far the state permitted 1 him to tz use this constabulary by charter it is difficult to say but if t is certain that until recently the average workman regarded the pinkerton police as a state constitution of some kind this perhaps accounts for much of the rabidity dJa displayed played in the recent troubles by the workmen they have submitted for years to a power which now they learn had no authority of f law and it is not pleasing to a mans mana own self complacency to find out that he has bag been fory for years eare a misguided dupe he might feel like kicking himself himsel ft but more likely he would want to kick somebody else i sm we hope has fired its last gun in the united states |
