Show ASSAILS SWEAT SWEATSHOP I SHOP METHODS sn j Gompers Attacks Anti Anti- Antitrust Antitrust Antitrust I AntiI trust Laws Progress Cite Social NEW EW EW YORK YOrm April The 25 25 2 ThO Thi general trend of social soda and chIc Ie changes in the L States Siales the last hat lait few decades ha haq been forward tor not backward backard as apostles of oC gloom contend Jolin Ha Hals s Hammond reported Thursday Thurs- Thurs Thursday day clay at the meeting of oC IhO th National Chic federation as a chairman of ot th tho atton s de de- de department on current economic and political nio movements mO ement J I K h 01 01 TJ Ti Tr Amon Among the black spots spols in the tho th nation nations s a dl de the repol I cited the orca dl eill eIl encouraging aging wholesale breaking up ot of otI home homes the recent e exposures of o ol I moral moral turpitude le ot of a few yo KO KOI eminent officials and tho the lac I o of trained teachers despite th the thee e existence of ot illiterates Illiterate in the tho country Improved wages ages and orkin working conditions of oC labor Ibor were ere i fled tied the report stated by anthracite anthracIte cite coal miners who ho earned an average of ot 1 10 a day in 1895 and worked days a a icar ear and aro oro now earning a minimum of oC o 4 6 62 a day and work da das dasa s a II leal eal In no line of ot progress the he re re- re report port asserted has the Ideal been reached rC L Ui L l IRs There could he be cited a cata- cata logue catalogue of oC Industrial horrors the sur e survey aurey said in conclusion show show oho showIng Ing thoughtless where hero greed und nd nd thought thought- less If It not unfeeling and criminal ers are eat eat- eatIng I Ing human beings In their I em-I em- em employ ploy po Ing them atrociously low age wages working them lowI ely long hour and giving no consider consider- consideration consideration I atlon to the comforts that a hu- hu humane humane hu mane employer would furnish I Samuel Gompers president o ot of the the American Federation of La- La Labor Labor j bor and Ico president ot of the tho cl elsIe clIe Ie federatIon In an address attacked I trust anti-trust la laws s as to the development of the great nat nat- natural nat toI I ural and humin humn resources ot of ou our ourI I country Mr Ir Ir Gompers advocated ad what hat I he said sald might be called l In indus indus- industrial trial in which labor lus-I lus would ha have base a II voice toke in establishing conditions surrounding Its em- em I RAtS US P T The time has come he ho do- do deI declare dc I clare dared l when when hen tho autocrat must I give gh c wa a wai not to but butto butto bu to democracy Resolutions el expressing abhor abhor- abhorrence abhorrence I rence of ot wai wat but denouncing those who ho by by sentimental ap- ap appeals appeals peals in the name of ot peace seek seel to disarm the nation and render I It defenseless were no 00 adopted |