Word: trade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last main speech for Yale. He dealt with that spirit of unionism which disregards the rights of the general public. It is, he said, a fundamental principle that individuals or institutions shall always be governed in pursuit of their own ends by a strict observance of public rights. Trade-unionism has continually shown a tendency to repudiate this principle. It is essential that the public, as a third party, shall never be made unreasonably to suffer for a grievance between two other parties. Yet unions, for the past twenty years, in the zealous pursuit of their own ends, have forced...
...assume to manage the employers' business; they must forego coercion, and in building themselves up, must not forget that those who differ with them have rights guaranteed them under our free government. But the fact that this is a nation bent on the betterment of the laboring class, that trade-unionism has been agitated and reagitated, and yet has failed to receive the support of eighty-five per cent of the American wage-earners, is strong proof of our contention,--namely, that trade-unionism for the past twenty years has pursued unwise methods, has violated rights fundamental to our whole...
Morton, in concluding the debate, said that the preceding speaker had not spoken as to what trade-unionism has actually done. He has not considered actions, but only avowals; and has not attempted to show that trade-unionism, as it has existed, has been unnecessary. The negative maintains that in spite of mistakes there has been a general beneficial tendency. The very strikes have resulted in growth of the joint-agreement...
...best interests of the United States are, he said, the creation of a spirit of mutual precaution, the establishment of a true province of labor, and a true province of capital. This end it has been the general tendency of trade unionism to sub-serve--by creating trade agreements, and by calling the attention of the public to the significance of the problem. The history of trade unionism cannot be discussed upon any narrower ground than this. If the negative have shown that despite the evils which have attended the history of trade unionism, unionism has shown a tendency...
Weldy began the rebuttal for Harvard. The negative he said, contends, that trade unionism has introduced democratic principles into the control of industry. The laborer should rightfully have a measure of self-government in the disposition of his labor and to the mass of laborers unionism is giving this. The special evils to which the affirmative points are intermittent and transitory and show no general unfavorable tendency. Trade unionism has always stood for arbitration and conciliation--The affirmative blames it for non-incorporation: it should be remembered that unionism is a comparatively recent movement and time must be expected...