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Show i Laborite Says It's the One Great Sinner in the Industrial In-dustrial Field WASHINGTON. May 20, Tho general gen-eral public, "this so-called innocent third party." was arraigned as "tho only wrongdoer in Industry" today by Henry Sterling, chairman of the executive ex-ecutive committee of the Amorican Federation of Labor, appearing before a. senate sub-camml(tcc to opposo tho' Toindcxter anli-strike bill for rail-1 roads. j Tho proposed legislation Vas; "founded on the theory that the pub-J 11c must not be Inconvenienced," hoi said, and added: I "Did it ever occur to you that tho public doesn't give a d . for tho man who works? Tho public is tho ono great sinner in tjie industrial field. It makes all the bad conditions. It is positively criminal in its indifference. Children might work themselves to death in the mills and the public wniilrln'f Mm Tho rmlv party considered in tho conflict is this so-called innocent third party, whllej as soon as wo who work take some action for our' own welfare, they only want to put us In jail." "Newspapers and legislators to some extent have protested plumbers' wages," he continued, "when there Is bno man in the United States who makes $125,000 a day; why not attend to that?" P. J. McNamara, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers, Engi-neers, said tho bill "made serfs and slaves of men." "Congress couldn't pass a law pro-i vlding involuntary servitude," Chalr- man Poindcxter interrupted him. J? "Well, if It is passed, it will be VY ' something the radicals can use to stir ' i up more unrest among" our men," Mc- I Namara .responded. ' |