Show CHAUNCEY M DEPEW ho ile speaks to the convention of L llomo ma tin the engineers WW OF WORTH I 1 I 1 I 1 tit k creat great Desidera desideratum tua or f labor labor trusts as 11 creat great a menace ai as capital it asti THE chauncey 1 depew biles lakes one on of f ell his latter Spec ties ID oil labor oct ia 10 the international I 1 brotherhood of locomotive engineers held their annual open meeting in the grand opera house this afternoon alter noon A number of lettera letters were read from rom prominent gentlemen expressing regret at their inability I 1 it to be present among them were OOT oy campbell ol 01 ohio gov beaver of pennsylvania george W Y childs of philadelphia president roberta roberts of the pennsylvania railroad and other prominent railroad officials after prayer by grand chaplain feor aty mayor got gourley artey NY welcomed tho the delegates delai delei eates gates to the cit city chairman adams then introduce Intro introduced ducU lion ilon chauncey Cha M depew president of the new york central railroad kail road company the ap appearance pe arance of the distinguished gentleman was a signal for the wilde wildest t applause when order had beart been restored mr depew proceeded to de do aa address blich was listened to with great interest several times he was compelled to pause owing to the deafening applause of his tie hearers bearers mr depew spoke highly of the brotherhood of loco motive engineers and said during the period of 0 its existence and prosperous growth hundreds of labor organize zv ions had been formed and dissolved they be had d bee been started to carry out novel th tho 13 ones ories or to put in practice unusual and untried processes the of your body Is to doe due to its ita rigid abher ence to the prin principles i I 1 le a of right upon n which it was roan founded oiled no labor 0 organization r baniz e tion can permanently succeed whose a sole and only object is to increase wages and diminish hours it lacks the essential bond ot mutual sampat sympathy y an and brotherly rot herly he help p in a wearing in gorli or lightening each others ba burdens aas the e tendency ten ency of such an organization 0 ant aaion is is inevitably an and rapidly to collisions Ili and failure the 9 fundamental alidea idea of the engineers brotherhood ia is first chanty charity in support of the sick or I 1 in jfred lured and contributions to the fa families m tea of the dead second education which perfects perfecto the artisan in the theory and practice of his trado trade and broadens him tor for larger usefulness as a citizen third protection in securing and maintaining your rights your record ia is unexampled in the history of contracts acta between e employer Ploy erand and employee at home or abroad abroad and ad in ia the intelligence and prosperity of your members mr depew spoke of the all pervade ing idea of the past plat few years of treats trusts and eaid said this uni universal vergal effort to absorb the individual to divide people into employing companies and employees employ cea and to destroy competition corn petition will inevitably end in ds disaster ister hostile legislation and laws lawe of trade will leave only the legitimate enterprises surviving in the same way and from the same causes there have baen several attempts to form gigan gigantic labor trusts which should combine under one central and autocratic authority tho rity every occupation in which the earner could engage in all such associations of trades and occupations having nothing in common but certain qualities of audacity fluency of speech and capacity for manipulating causes and convent conventions lo n abush push to the front many men who know little of the me great interests con confined floed to their care labor must be as intelligent as capital upon its own grounds the committee ral in tn which calls upon the employer or railroad officer must know its own business in 8 iness as well ell as its he be knows bis his otherwise from angry contentions because ceila of ignorance comes the exercise a of brute force and violence fails to encute that which in nine cases out of if ten could have been ha bad d by intelligent representation hundreds of committees of our employees have been to see ses me and I 1 can safely safe y eay say after a full fall and free discussion which always took place not one of them ever went want out of my office except to car carry back a satisfactory message to their constituents the reason for these ready settlements was that the men understood their own business and knew precisely what they walteq baute and land how much the company could it afford to concede but bat in the opera lions of what I 1 may call tho the labor trusts I 1 had different experiences mr depow depew cited an instance where fifteen men at one ono point on the line were ordered off by the chief of 0 their I 1 local ocal assembly who was a shoemaker and who took that action because he h bail had bad a row with a passenger conductor on another 0 occasion c c a high official in the order c called a li e d on mr depew who soon discovered he knew nothing of what ho he was talking about toe official confessed confess a d he never had been in the railway eer ser tice vice in his life such representatives of org organized mulled labor sald said mr depew bring it into disrepute both with pow h the 6 employers and I 1 the he public A corn committee cittee called upon a me last ast fall with a series of complaints p afo ufo into all 1 of which were quickly and satisfactorily ifo ily adjusted they then made a demand on or behalf at 0 the loco m motive five 1 an engineers ineese when I 1 informed abom them that eod body could speak tor for itself they then said their object was to break up the organization of lococo five live engineers and gather into one organization every department of the railway service if the management of the new york central would w donld recognize the engineers engineer a only through gh them this result would bo be brought labo about brough al and upon a much lower has basis than he the brotherhood could admit and II 11 we did not do so they would strike and tio tie up the road mr cohew informed the committee they might do their worst but that in the matter affecting the brotherhood ha be would recognize only that thit body the threatened strike never came aspea speaking king of the great central sink depew eaid said that after years of fair el frank and friendly discussions with the employees of the new york central he had been led to believe a strike was lip impossible possible on that road in that trust be went abroad on his annual holiday to have bis hi is ho hopes a shattered by a cablegram a g a strike ea but in the engineers engineer h a a added tiled were true to to t the be r relation lot which tor for many years b h d been established and sustained and re invigorated my fading faith in in efi efficacy leacy of any effort to maintain a satisfactory and permanent under stand standing between capital and labor the e citizens lm it zone of new york andoe and of the whole country ow owe a to the broth brotherhood er of locomotive engineers a debt deb of gratitude tor for the courage fidelity and nd intelligence with which they stood tood by their posts and performed 7 their duties during the recent I 1 troubles on the no new york central air mr depew touched briefly on the I 1 in matter ater of I 1 government ownership of 1 I 1 railroads time doea does not permit ho he eald said of a discussion of the effects upon our institutions of the appointment of a million public servants being given I 1 t the administration and made the patronage of party basses bosses he ile referred to the letter camera carriers in En england glando who 1 1 work long hours and get on an average ag six dollars a week after a va vain in effort lor for ameliorating their condition they struck the government instantly tilled filled their places put a police beside each new now roan man 11 I 1 and the gatherings of 0 the old ones in germany G th the government owns the emmam railroads I 1 locomotive engineers receive about fort forty y five dollars a month and I 1 if one obede de sorts his engine he becomes subject to severe punishment libraries have been written labor and capital but they are mostly trash in the varying conditions of our corn complex plex civilization co no general law seems possible which will be applicable to all cases as a relief for antagonism between capital and labor every difficulty must be solved upon its owns merits and it Is juat just here wf that intelligent labor organizations composed only of men in the occupation which seeks to secure right or redress wrong can meet their employer ia upon grounds which will shiw shw t phear their mutual dependence and promote A common benefit it ia just here that ignorance or incompetence on an one hand produces irritation and resistance I 1 0 on a the other A period ought to I 1 11 come when the employees in any in j austry shall not be arrayed in hostile campa over the whole country against their employers in the same business 1 when the combinations will not be of 01 workers on the one hand band and officials I 1 li on the other against each other but I 1 with good sense and friendly disposition 0 they behall meet upon common ground for common good and an over 1 whelming whelmine wh elming sense of common interest grand chief engineer arthur wa was next introduced and was enthusiastically I 1 received lie ile congratulated the brotherhood Brother bood on the healthy condition of its affairs and said in part i though Tb ough there ia li a oneness of par purpose I 1 there is diversity of opinion and anToo we w e hope hop d during n g the course of our doba debate t e I 1 to ia fact find d on n by which the problem ot conr our difficulties and difference differences may way be solved it is by honorable action the that t we have achieved success as a labor organization not by might not by loud boastful assertions of what owing to our numbers we might compel corr corporations orations to do no that never I 1 baa has been our out policy we at fk k but fair I 1 just jus due nothing more if there be those who would array labor against 11 capital I 1 am not one of them or with them if there be those who regard re i the interests of labor and capi capital as I 1 I 1 naturally or properly antagonistic I 1 do not agree with them the interests 1 of labor and capital are identical or of to ba be more accurate reciprocal I 1 any argument respecting labor topics I 1 I 1 which does not distinctly recognize aad and concede the truth et of this proposition 11 must needs bo fallacious and as a matter of fact it is recognized and 4 conceded by all eminent authorities on the subject the insurance feature of the brotherhood was touched upon at length by the speaker during the past fiscal year the he brotherhood has paid to widows and orphans of deceased members making ft a grand 1 total of addresses were made by a number of delegates referring ferring Ite to a chicago I 1 telegram stating that a party of western engineers left eft tor for this city to 1 1 champion the cause of federation I 1 first grand assistant engineer hayes eaid said 1 I know nothing about them y I 1 we anticipate no trouble when ahe I 1 time comes for considering thesues the question I 1 N of federation I 1 understand a majority of the petern delegates mab favor av such aplan a plan but as to what the outcome will be I 1 will not venture an 1 opinion I 1 |