Show 00 CHURCHES ARE AFTER GARY One Ono of ot the greatest acts act of o reil reI America was as the reply made by Protestant Catholic and Hebrew to the statement Of ot Elbert 11 If Gary Garr chairman ot or the United States Steel Corporation that the 12 hour day could not be eliminated the steel Industry The have Issued a challenge In which the declaration of ot the Steel trust la Is referred to as morally indefensIble Indefensible In Indefensible defensible his Soon after Judge Gary made announcement the American Iron and Steel Institute commended his bland In la answering that body the chur churchmen make this statement report of o the committee on proposed total tion l i on of o f the I appointed by the I 12 hour day American Iron and aud Steel Stoel Institute shatters the public confidence I that I was Inspired by the creation of o the I committee a year ago at the re- re reQuest re request Ur Unit United president of ot the quest o of the It is la a different rei reaction e ed J States lion tion of ot the proposal fo for tor the ha ab abolitIon abolition tion lion of ot tho the long day The The publIc pub demand in response to which t the committee was appointed Is set I sentiment which eliach bleh was w a aside as the 4 not created or indorsed b by themselves The los test testimony mony o of competent including eminent engineering soci soel- societies etien Is Ignored and the conci conclusion slon sion is put forth without support supporting ing log data that the tho 12 day hou houi day bas b been an Injury to the 1 not of Itself mentally and andi ax en physically This statement is made i norall fact fuet that the com com- committee cot committee In n lace face o the of oC stockholders of the Unit Unit- United Uni United ed Id States Slates Steel corporation a ap appointed pointed In 1912 to investigate this tb the thi thiL matter expressed n L hour 12 day of o labor followed ot of men me group o by an any number of C Cears or any considerable a decreasing of o the eC c tars ears means and lessening of ot the vigor and nd virility of o such tuch men This declaration from the rell rol the In It In bUS bodies of America Is thought Into mt of o religious life liCe of ot th the people an anistead and the 10 daY ev e day cry from fron fronto thing apart Instead istead of ot being a heart throbs of humanity the to great shield a as It is made to servo agaInst Industrial wrongs It is ap- ap applied apie ap applied there has haa been i a aI plied ie morals It If churches In the tb I In the tho has been the tb weakness past tat that of ot the churches to demonstrations of ot a tear feat tearless less 85 antagonism against wrongs wrong perpetrated by the powerful predatory devoted to a form Corm Of C Ciman tory ry interests which bIch tends to tI human iman slavery slaver which Is la at crush out that hope of morals The United States Steel Corpora Corporation organized l tion having destroyed labor on bor and m u now iv dealing with be jA ib- ib iii positive proof of o oo vidual offers mighty fi U financial of ot allowing tho o danger groups to be a power selfish selfishness Unrestrained ness iss every time lime will wll play the pan part be bc beIn beIn mastery whether the or tyrant In the hands bands of labor or capital cl Whenever great forces of ot capital are e in position to make terms with the e individual worker by reason or 01 labor e absence o of organized Injustices there ore will be he unpardonable tices es Inflicted and the drift will be beward toward ward peonage serfdom or human buman been the his history slaver That has Individual tory ry of the centuries The cowed Into whipped and ual I can be Labor the S loss of t his free tree agency to protect Itself should be itS as strong ong as capital With the churches throwing ing the ight of ot their great Influence on onI the helpless steel work work- workers the I side of ot there should be bo an arousing of ers I bite sentiment equal to the task of abolishing the 12 hour day 00 00 |