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Show LABOR, GAP1TC MPHL1S Compulsion by Legislation Is Strongly Opposed by Both Sides NEW YORK. Feb. lo. Opposition of both organized labor and capital to legislative compulsion ln the field 0l I heir activities Was expressed by kera at the morning session of the National Civic federation Q. V Norman, chairman of the board Of governors of the New York, Building Trades Employers' asaoala-l tion, declared "no law can compel a, man to do RUSlneSS ..I losu. " Samuel Sam-uel (oiinpirs iara phra-'-d Mr. Newman's New-man's declaration to expresn the attitude at-titude of organised labor toward the Bach-Cummlna law and th principle of compulsory arbitration by stating 1 1. at "no law to compel workmen to" work against their Will or under conditions con-ditions detrimental to their welfar- i hi .lib can be enforced" ( iMl'i bsom L 1BOR. Ma tthew WoU, vice-president of the, American Pederation of i-ai.or. and F-L. F-L. Hoffman, vice-president of thej Prudential insurance company, also i dressed the meeting "If there is fo bp compulsory labor," la-bor," Mr. Gompsra declared. it is good for all and not for the workers alone." M i lumpers asserted that this was ih only country where the workers' did not have their hands on th"i throat of their government. Taking up the charge that labor had been guilty of contract breaking., be declared that all the contract breaking within the last five months had been on the part of the employer:. employ-er:. Ho said that legislation such OS L he' Each-Cummins law tended 10 keep labor and . apital apar LABORS GOOD I VIT1I. "Our biggest task." .vild Mr. Norman, Nor-man, in explaining tin problems be-' fore the New York Building Trades Employers' association, "is fo keep on permanent and continuous speaking terms with labor, which requires tact, more tact and then some more tad. for without at complacent, satisfied and wllllng-to-work labor there an be no building Ours has .been a1 search for honest responsibility in la-1 bor, some one or a group representing i the tollers who would made a con-' trtfel Cpr them which would be kept." Both Mr Wo..! and Mr. Gompori touched upon the Sherman antl-tiunt Law. Mi Gompers declared it was dsvi Intended for use against labor n It was in the Ianbury hatters' ease. -Mi-. Woli declared for the re-leal re-leal of tho anti-trust laws, asserting they had been fill lie In preventing the) formation of powerful combinations ml that the had been affective "nl Lgalrfst labor and wars out of tht spirit of the times. |