| Show WILSONS WILSON'S TRIP THIP Continued from page one sla today Is to be bo preferred to industrial Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial oppression such as they imagine Imag imag- Imagine ine they are powerless to remedy except except except ex ex- by forceful means have made greater headway than most businessmen business business- men like to admit Union labor Isn't Isn always blamed on the Pacific coast e One finds big businessmen anxious ous and willing to cooperate with such an organization for instance as the American Federation of Labor in an effort to destroy destro the Influence and power of the extreme radicals who I prey upon the laboring masses with I literature and newspapers all their I own If there ever was continual m of Secretary Lanes Lane's statements u er n- n the tho need of 1 on especially among the rank and tit Ills of oC labor the situation on the coast demonstrates It conclusively Agitators reach thousands upon b thousands of laborers with peru 1 us doctrines about the power of physical ph ical force and aud direct attoa largely because the same masses have been ignored by the people who could educate them to the tho con oon- on- on Much of the industrial disorder spreading in the west is due to sheer ignorance or the clever manipulation tion and maneuvers of radical leaders leaders lead lead- ers who do not fall fail to use ever every ut utterance utterance utterance ut- ut terance and every action taken j J y employers elsewhere inimical to or organized or- or labor as proof of their contention contention contention con con- that It Is useless to tr try to sit aft down and reason with the employing employing employing em em- class On the other hand we ve encountered encountered ered business men fairly burning with wit indignation at the way they said employers had been treated Inthe in fn inthe the matter of contracts with their employees Again and again labor organizations had refused to carryout carryout carry carryout out their contracts for services without without without with with- out an Increase in pay And if a whole union was unable to break Its I contract the men would resign as individuals in individuals in- in I in such great numbers rosto s rs sto to make Inake the value of the contract a negligible quantity So there were two weaknesses evident evi evi- dent on the one hand and Inability on the part of the employer class to prevent man many of Its number from doing do do- doing ing the extreme things against la lat t r which gave the radical leaders the main propaganda and on on the other r hand an on the part of Jf conservative conservative con COIl labor leaders at the heo head 1 of the national organizations to hold holdin holdin in leash the local leaders or operation Co-operation by the leaders of capital and Industry has become rot not merely an altruistic or ethical fair fall but a question of absolute necessity necessity ne ne- Suspicion Is being fostered C locally by man many radical labor t Ipa loaders load load- aders ad- ad ers ors against the industrial conference now How being held in Washington 1 he hemen he hemen hemen men men who vho think Samuel Gompel is s a tool of the tho capitalistic Interests have ha begun building a fire beneath Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Gompers's subordinates in the hope haPa of destroying his influence with his following or with the idea of claiming credit for having pushed him into such advantages for labor as he might eventually get out of the labor conference at Washing Washing- ton Radicals are like politicians politicians- they are always ready to take credit upon themselves with their local followers for things that benefit labor la labor labor la- la bor and always ready to blame the thena thena na national tonal onal labor leaders for things that go wrong Just now even though President Wilson appointed Charles Edward Russell Russelt and John Spargo prominent Socialists as two out of two twenty-two representatives of the public at the labor conference r the radical laboring men with whom some of us talked while on the Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- r son tour denounced both men as J unrepresentative of the radical thought of the country So there Isnow is isnow isnow now evidently no way to satisfy the i extremists except by turning all the tho fi power of government over to them t I which is only another evidence that at the bottom their leaders arc are like j the the party politicians those politicians those on the outside trying to get in by any an w means available The presidents president's reference to labor and the opportunity for examina examination tion of world labor problems oler offered d dunder under tinder the league of nations did not make much of an Impression on the rank and file for the tho simple tea reason on that so far tar as America is concerned d a congress has declined to permit the theY United States thus far tar to take part Y and the improvement of the workingman's workingman's work work- ingmans ingman's condition of labor In to T Kam Kaja- i Is not as as' as interesting as us I- I haps it would bo be among the the working working working work work- ing people of the United Disturbing effects are arc here and h there to be seen of the preachment L of radical doctrines The imprisonment imprison imprison- In various ment of men like Debs Dehs parts of the country country hus has enabled theN the N martyr ty defense funds to flourish h and the poisonous propaganda to thrive e e They point to the utterances i rot ot 1 the action of Debs and cynically argue arguo that the tho guarantee of free ree speech Is empty The effort to LO organize organize organize or or- police unions which might bo ho houseful useful when sympathetic strikes were called has caused apprehension While the the moral moral effect of Mr Wilson's Wilsons WIlsons WIlson's Wilsons Wilson's Wil WIl- sons son's opposition to such police anions un un- unions unIons ions was good many business men prefer preter to see the guard re reorganized reorganized reorganized re- re organized as soon as possible The Thear war ar simply tore apart every semblance semblance sem sem- blance blanco of national guard organization tion In many states and it If the local police were ever unable to cope with disorder and the aid of state troops were required there would In man many parts of the country be no state troops to put putdown down the disorders Federal troops are scattered and unquestionably the labor unions which have hitherto been the chief foes of the national guard will try again to keep it ft from growing It is largely a state matter but the national national national na na- guard can hardly exist without without without with with- out federal aid and encouragement so it will be a good test for tor the tie congress con cn- gress ress of the tho United States The president himself was told about the importance of national guard reorganization reorganization reorganization by business business business' businessmen men men and listened listened listened list list- ened with interest Summarized the Industrial situation situation situation situ situ- in Is today the most uncertain quantity in the business of the country The president argues that industrial unrest is imported from overseas that until American business men know v what their marcet market mar- mar teet ket overseas will be they cannot very well calculate their own affairs and he says that unless Europe Is at peace foreign countries will not be able to buy In American markets because because be be- cause their credit will be impaired I be-I that hat is why he argues for tor an immediate Imme- Imme liate diate ratification of the treaty Business men and conservative labor abor leaders agree with him on that hat point though they may differ as aso asto asto to o how the treaty should be ratified with or without interpretations or reservations But the extreme radicals radicals radi radi- cals and direct action advocates absolutely disagree They would prefer preter no treaty and no partnership of governments In the league of ot na na- For that might mean order and what they want is disorder and chaos The people who want to see law aw and order preserved and business business business busi busi- ness relieved of as many uncertainties uncertain- uncertain ties ies as possible le want therefore quick action o 0 i 4 the treaty treaty approval approval or rejection ct rl re or some- some thing but but omo mg lUg very cut clear-cut and imm immediate |
