FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1919.
THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919.
NOT GIVING IN
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, packed for the purpose, has
reported adversely on the League of
Nations and Presidnt Wilson will car
ry the case to the people. It is an
nounced that he will speak in behalf
of the peace treaty in at least thirty
0f the principal cities of the coun
try. The trip contemplated will ex
tend to the Pacific coast and the
President’s utterances are expected
to strengthen the efforts of the Lea
gue advocates to ratify without mod
ifications. The action of a hostile
committee means further exertion for
an already well-worn chief executive
who, like Henry Clay, would “rather
be right than be president.”
Since it became known weeks ago
that the Republicans were juggling
with the Foreign Relations Committee
of the Senate the Democrats have
been expecting partisan opposition
to the treaty and recent developments
do not surprise them. Anything that
is calculated to reflect upon the Pres
ident has, for. some time, been eager
ly seized upon by Senator Lodge and
all except one, of the Republican
ntcjnbers of his committee.
Everybody knov/s that it is the old
reactionary element in the Republi
can party which ia dominating the
United States Senate and the stand
they are taking has materially assist
ed the President in reaching the con
clusion to carry a message to the
^ople. Blind and destructive crit
icism of the administration for pure
ly partisan reasons does not appeal
to the people and the campaign of
misrepresentations against various
provisions of the League Covenant by
the opposition is reasonably certain
to react favorable to the administra
tion plan. It is perfectly plain that
President Wilson does not intend to
surrender his Vonviction to satisfy
the whims of Henry Cabot Lodge and
his “packed” committee picked from
the old Republican guard of the Ald-
rich-Cannon persuasion.
CAPITAL AND LABOR
The clash between capital and labor
has reached an acute stage in this
State and there is much intemperate
talk about conditions from various
angles. The issue appears to hinge
upon the question of collective bar
gaining which, the workers contend,
is legitimate and a privilege they will
continue to insist upon. Capital or
ganizes and labor sees no reason for
the attempt of capitalism to withhold
a similar right to the real wealth pro
ducer, who earns his bread in the
sweat of his face. Insistence upon
this right recently resulted in a ser
ious clash between local authorities
and sympathizers of the street car
operatives in Charlotte who had re
fused to work until the company of
ficials recognized their parent organ
ization, The Amalgamated Associa
tion of Street Electric Railway Em
ployees of America. In this particu
lar instance, five lives were sacrificed
for a principle to which labor adheres
and shows little disposition to sur
render. State troops quelled the dis
turbance and quiet has been restored
in Charlotte, but the street car men
are not convinced that they have been
fairly treated.
Until recently strikes and lockouts
were practically unknown in North
Carolina and capital has exercised a
free hand in controlling the produc-^
tion and distHbution of the State’s
resources, of an industrial character.
‘Scenting the immediate need for a
get-together movement the wage-
eamers of the State a few months
ago dcided tft organize for their mu
tual benefit. Capital protested and
the doors of many industrial plants
were immediately closed to unijon
men. So we are having lock-outs in
stead of walk-outs, with capital ob
stinately contesting the right of labor
to organize. Governor Bickett’s ring
ing statement on the action of the
Charlotte manufacturers in refusing
to employ members of labor will do
to pass along. The Governor said:
‘The facts leading up to the pre
sent situation are undisputed. A con
siderable number of mill operatives
join a labor union. Thereupon the
mill owners notify these operatives
that they must withdraw from the
union or they will not be permitted
to work in the mills. The operatives
refuse to withdraw from the union
and are discharged.
This position on the part of the mill
owners is unwise, unjust and cannot
be maintained. Labor has just as
much right to organize as capital.
This right—the right of collective
bargaining on the part of labor—is
recognized by every civilized govern
ment in the world. This right is guar
anteed to labor everyv/here by the
world treaty of peace that has just
been framed in Paris.
When the mill owners discharged
the operatives because they joined a
union, they resorted to force and not
to rason to sustain their position. A
lock-out is war—industrial war waged
by organized capital against labor.
A walkout is war waged by organized
labor against capital. Neither a lock
out nor a walkout bears any relation
to the sources of wisdom and of
justice. In the case of a walkout or
a lockout each side is trying to starve
the otiier side into submission to iti
will. I
The right of labor to organize can
not be challenged, but I am ^rsuad- '
ed that the kind of organization that;
both capital and labor now maintain |
can never bring about that confidence <
and good will between employer and !
employe that is essential to the sue- I
cess and happiness of both. Labor ^
and capital ar in separate camps view i
ing each other with suspicion and I
distrust. Such an attitude spells fail- |
ure. The only hope for better con- j
ditions, for enduring peace is for la- 1
bor and capital to stand together in :
a spirit of mutual helpfulness. There
must be co-operation between the men '
who furnish the capital and execu- I
tive ability on one hand and the men !
who furnish the labor on the other,
other.
1 earnestly urge the owneM and the
operatives in Charlotte and in the ad-1
joining section to get together, for
i eventually the happinness of all must 1
I depend upon the prosperity of the
I enterprise in which all are engaged.
II am absolutely certain that a w'ise
1 and just plan of co-operation can be
I devised. In the formation of this
‘ plan there should be the fullest and
I freest participation by the represen-
I tatives of labor and capital. Pending
I the working out in good faith of such
; a plan of co-operation I urge that all
the mills be re-opened and that all the
laborers return to their work.
When the mills reopen any and
every American citizen has a right
to work in the mills whether he be
longs to a labor union or not. No mill
owner has a right to say that a man
shall not work because he belongs to
a lobor union. No labor union has
a right to say a man shall not work
because he does not belong to a labor
union. That is a question for each
man to decide for himself, and the
State of North Carolina will not tol
erate any interference in either case.
I give solemn warning that the full
power of the State will be exerted to
protect any man who wants to work
and any one who shall dare to inter
fere with a willing worker will do
so at his own peril.”
A word to the wise is sufficient.
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