Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 68, Hammond, Lake County, 6 September 1919 — Page 4
THE TIMES.
September 6, 1919.
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SOAPBOX ORATORY. What good, may we again ask. is it going to do for tie president to go up and down the country pleading for the league of nations? The people elected senators to study and take care of those questions. Why doesn't Mr. Wilson talk to the senators? So dispassionate an observer as Cavld Lawrence finds no enthusiasm for the president on his trip. He and his entourage are regarded somewhat in the nature of a circus attraction. His palatial train and its luxuries naturally draw big crowds and people are curious to see Mrs- Wilson and her gorgeous hats and gowns, but he fails to warm up the people. Dispatches say people want to see her more than they do the president, who is working like a Trogan on his scheme to benefit the French and the English and the Japanese and other peoples, but what is he doing for the United States.? What of the great problems of labor and economics in which the country is so vitally interested? Why doesn't he say something about tie league of profiteers, the league of extravagants, and the other leagues that harass and distress the people of this nation. The peace treaty now belonea to the senate. It is no street corner afid soapbox wrangle. Nobody knows this better than the president, if he wasn't obsessed. Senator Sherman ays men have been impeached for saying less than Mr. Wilson said at Columbus yesterday. The people will impeach him and his policies a year from next November.
Justice. Out of the ar, the common sacrifices of all men, laborer and capitalist alike, has come this great new thought that industrial Justice must prevail. Recently a great group of capitalists and employers met to talk it over. They frankly conceded that the old order of industrial strife must not go on. They put committees to work to formulate ways and means of ending it. They propose to establish new agencies, new institutions, through which industrial justice can be administered. But labor already has its agencies, Its human institutions through which it proposes to work out industrial Justice. They are not approved by capital. Those proposed by capital Kill not be approved by labor. The old feeling of distrust an dbitterness is still there, modulated by the war it is true, but still alive. What chance there ia for the two to get together to work out the mutual problems
of justice between man and man, is problematical. Much depends upon the state of mind in which all approach the matter. Both sides must blame the ether for its selfishness, but must recognize that selflshaees Is a common trait of all mankind. Capital must understand that labor demands justice, rot paternal guardianship, and that labor will not commit the imprudence of abandoning the organizations through which it has made such progress as the score shows at this reckoning. Labor must understand that in taking the Initiative for conciliation, capital has made the first great, essential concession that industrial injustice exists, that there is something to rectify. If capital and labor get together on this basis of frank approach, with this understanding of the limitations of human nature, and with the will to seek some practical, humanly possible solution to the world-old difficulties, they may open the door to better things. They will not agree on what is Just. There will be many conflicting details. Bat for the first time, each side in its own "way, they will be aiming at the same thing. That lone, outstanding fact holds a world of promise"
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CONCILIATION AND JUSTICE. In a splendid editorial entitled "Conciliation" the Wisconsin State Journal says in part: , Ia America the turn of the new thought is strongly toward what we term "industrial justice " That brings us to "capitalism." It is an opprobrious term. Labor ha3 condemned It
out of hand, without concession or discrimination, just as with equal blindness capital has condemned trades unionism. Capitalism is selfish. Trade unionism is selfish. Neither are bad merely because they are selfish. They re selfish because they represent men. and all men are selfish. To be selfish is not to be had, it is only to he human. We must always keep that in mindBetween selfish capitalism and selfish unionism, teither 6f them bad. there must stand the essential good cf All human relationships. That is what we are talking about the thing we call "Justice." It has not stood
there, in the past
THE SCRAPPING SOCIALISTS.
As usual, the Socialist party convention Is being
Sheld under Marquis of Queensbury rules. The "national
emergency" gathering of the Socialists at Chicago promptly proceeded to split itself into two conventions, described by a correspondent as "a super-emergency one
jand just a plain, ordinary, everyday emergency one." As
Ja result "the Left Wing met downstairs and the Right
Wing upstairs." And a rival gathering of communists in "Smolny institute" constitutes a third Socialist convention. The wonder is that by this time in the proceedings there are so few conventions. For there are as many kinds of Socialists as there are pickles, ranging from the conservative philosophers who are willing to wait a hundred years to bring about the social millennium to the
advocates of the "demonstrationcof force" whose scheme Is to uplift humanity through the use of bombs. Regarded at first with amused toleranc6 as enthusiasts, impractical visionaries with a touch of fanaticism. Socialists in this country have now fallen into decided disrepute owing to their attitude during the war- Their present conventions are being held to consider the "national emergency," whatever that may be. But when the nation of which they are either citizens or guests was confronted with the greatest emergency in history, they failed ingloriously to respond with the majority and enlist In Its defense. Instead they met at St. Louis and adopted the notorious "anti-loyalty" platform in which they pledged themselves to oppose by all the means within
their power the government's conduct of the war. Look
ing back, one can but wonder at our government's extraordinary leniency toward these "potential traitors. Left
Wing, Right Wing, loyal citizens can't help wishing the Socialist party would take both wings and fly away and give the country a rest!
MR. Wilson said last night at St. Louis: "T didn't make this trip because I doubted what
was going to happen. But for one thing I wanted the pleasure of leaving Washington and of feeling the much greater inspiration I would get from you. In Washington you hear politics so much you wish both political parties were smothered in their own gas" You coulfln't possibly wait till March 4, 1920, could you, air? As fir aE smothering democratic politicians in
Hammond. Ind., Sept. . 1919. Editor Times: I would like to know what kind of Americans wa have here In Hammond. I was at one of the strJkers meetingand all we could hear was that Hungarian language, hut I overheard one answer In English and that was that all the Americana were yellow and were afraid to go to work at the Standard Steel Car plant, but there are a few of us who are not and If we had more than this few wa could show those Hunks something. I was in a very good outfit and" we sure were recommended from the States
and trance. I had nineteen months overseas and I would gladly fight those
Hunks here. All we have to do ia o out and go to work and clean those Hunks out of there and show them who is boss her. They made good money while we were away and now they want to tell us what to do. They do not know what they are out for and some of th unions that are there I understand were not called out by the grand lodge. There are a number of Americana that want to go back, but it seems they axe afraid of those Hunks and pro-Germans. Men. this is a good way to put th United States on the bum. They bled It eo far and after they see that everything is so they can not make a living they will move to their country and laugh at us Americans. So be wise and think it over. Help those soldiers that fought for you and freedom and give us our share back here.
A TIMES READER AND A SOLDIER.
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their own gas is concerned, we shall have to hear from
In the main, capital has had the better Burleson and Baker on that.
of the conflict. Not because capital selfishness is bettor or worse than labor selfishness, but because capital was the stronger. It took more than its share because it could. Had labor been stronger of the two ,it might have done the same thing. To do so would have been human, and like capital, labor Is human. The trouble has been that in the natural expression of self, justice has been
AN authority who reminds us that soft drinks are often rich in food valuo brings no consolation to the drinker in quest of a "kick."
'IT 13 more blessed to give than to receire" was said doubtless before there wero so many demands n
secondary to acquisitiveness It has been profit before one's purse
WOMHIR'B KirSXISKTATITS AS5XCB.Y. Editor Times: Under the heading cf the -Workers' Side" In your Issue of September 3, Mr.
W. T. Lavin has set forth to your numerous readers certain statements, relat
ing to employees of the Standard Steel
Car Company of the various causes of
the present strike, but surely the average fair-minded reader will readily come to the conclusion that there must be another slds t ths story. Such is the ease, and we herewith submit facts and figures. With a general outline to prove that Mr. Lavin does not know the trus character of some cf his statements or on the other hand he has been terribly mlsonformsd. or to use his words to Chief Austgen ha had been told. We do not presume to go into all details regarding the Standard Steel Car company in its ntlatlons with its employees on any of the contended points, but we do Intend placing before the readers of Thb Timxs some corrections to Mr. Lavln's article. We take exception to his remarks to what he calls "Rockef ellow Tlan" or the Standard Oil Plan" which we call the "Plan of Representation of employees." Referring back to a previous issue of Ths Times we find on the front page quite an article relating to tha proposed plan which was to be adopted by ths Standard Oil Company at Whitinsr. which at present seems to be working very smoothly. This plan was adopted by the Standard Oil Company after we
had accepted ours at the Standard Steel.
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Let us state clearly before going fijrther who is meant by "wee." That word represents the committees, which were elected by the employees to represent them on the various committees worklnfc under this same plan. Some question, do we really represent the employee? Let the question answer itself. .Were we elected by the. employer? NO. Th-n we do not represent him. Were
we elected by the men in the plant?
TES. Thererore. it must roiiow mat their interests are ours. How were we elected? Mr. Lavin states that this plan had to be accepted by the men whether they wanted it or not. This is where he is entirely mistaken. The first move made along the lines of representation were certainly made by the company on February 14th. that is they gave the employees the opportunity of selecting by popular ballot a representative commit- . . . . 0 ... Arl i v 'a r Q n 1 a in Innlr
over and sludy a proposed plan of rep- J
resentation. consiaeraDie nm was spent by the committee debatinr the various articles it contained. Finally after certain alterations had been made, which that body considered necessary to the welfare cf the employees as a whole, this body signed a proposed plan and not the regular vorkmen"s representative assembly, which Is the name under which the combined committees function. This took place on March the 3rd. Neither this committtee or the company's representatives consider this
instrument binding on eitner pariy i that time, that body having done what it was elected to do rassed out of exHt- -. "U
Tt then necame necessary 10 iuu-
mit the plan to the employees for their
approval. This was done at an eiecimn held throughout the plant on March 18.
At this election a pauot wa and in bold type was the question. "ARE TOU IN FAVOR OF THIS PLAN? YES ,-. xrrt in f.vor write below at
least two nominees for each committee
ship." We wish to state here that the ballot was absolutely secret bein left to the worker s choiceto either vote, yes or no or even cast a blank ballot. No person could possibly know for the ballot was folded and placed In a sealed ballot box bv the voter himself. Tet at that the vote in favor of the plan was as follows: Out of a number of men eligible to vote 830 were in favor of the Plan, aainst 1T0 thirteen blank ballots being in the box -It is this ratification of the plan
which the company considers mnoms on the employees and not the siirnip-- of the plan by the committee that helped to draft it. and we challenge anyone to prove that the acceptance was forced on the employees. To be fair with the foreign speaking employees an interpreter was used to explain in their own language what the plan really meant. We wish to call Mr. Lavin's attention to a special election held on June 27th to ftlll a vacancy on one of these commit
tees, that the employees were lavoraotc at this late date to the plan. Out of a total of IS men employed in a blacksmith department 18 votes were cast in favor. In the machine shop 78 voted out of a total of 38 employed. These results are looked upon as excellent, for almost all of the men In these departments are good union men. Very satisfactory results were obtained through this plan on the various matters that wera referred to It for its m.lAtlnn mm vrv mnlflVM of the
plant well knows what it might have done or still can do is a matter of conjecture, that satisfactory results have been achieved argues well that if given a fair and impartial trial it could arnicably settle all existing grievances, even major wage disputes. We had on hand at the time the strike took place a plan whereby wages were to be adjusted to various crafts, also to grade wages in those crafts, so that the skilled mechanic would be recognised ahead of others less skilled in that same department. This article has been written by tha committee on behalf of the men who can see that given a fair trial the plan is bound to result in a better understandingbetween employee and em-
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at all times to serve the men ou any Question which they may bring before ua and only in this way can a thorough test bo made and results obtained. We do not doubt for a moment had the present trouble been handled through the plan, a strike could havs been averted and much suffering and expense saved to us all. For the grievances of the men could have been taken up and looked into whilst they kept on working an1 failing- a settlement with the company we have authority through our constitution to carry to outside arbitration and no doubt matters could - have been brought to a successful Issue. FRANK GREAT BATCH. Sec. Workmen's Representative Assembly of Standard Steel Car Company, Hammond Works, Indiana.
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Walter Shearer of Ridge Road. Miss, is visiting his sUter, Mrs. Albert Wall. Mr. Ed. Scheldt transacted business in Chicago yesterday. Mrs. H. T. Coons entertained the O. E. S. Auxiliary yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Haxtoa ht-'e taken up their residence in tha Emu Scharbach new house on Cleveland avenue. Mrs. N E. White will entertain the Magabine Clue tonight. .Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Owen fam. ily are taking a ten day's vacation motoring through points jn the East and Canada. Mrs. Ed. Tracer and daughter Miss Mabel were Chicago visitors on Thursday. Gu. Derring has purchased the T. Hanr.a house and two lots on Lincoln street.
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First photo of General von Hiftdenburg in civilian clothes. The National Liberal party in Germany is booming Field MsTbhal von Hmdenburg for the presidency of the new German republic in the first elections to be held under the My constitution. Von Hindenburg is said to be the only leader of the old Germany who retains his popularity unimpaired under the new order.
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