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Mandhester Pastor Touched 
The second in the series of Labor 
_ Sermons at the Baptist church, Man- 
chester, last Sunday morning was 
equally as interesting as the one de- 
 livered the week before. The pastor, 
Rev. T. L. Frost took his text from 
Micah 6:8—What doth the Lord re- 
quire of thee but to do justly, and 
‘to love merey and to walk humbly 
with thy God’’. 
part: 
The history of Israel in the 8th 
closely resem- 
The pastor said in 
During the olden times men monop- 
own selfish purposes, they are doing 
the same today. In those times the 
rich people seemed to get all while 
the poor felt the heavy burden fall 
on them. It is so today to a great 
For is it not a fact that 
if a man has money today he can 
do almost anything the same as in 
those days? We today have only 
a narrow conception of life, if we 
fail to be interested in the social 
question. 
Jesus Christ is interested in mod- 
ern industry and so it is therefore 
valuable that we spend three Sun- 
days on the industrial question. 
What message has Jesus Christ to- 
day for the modern employer? It 
is a three-fold message. 
I. To do justice. That is the first 
requirement Jesus makes. Capital 
is so highly organized today that 
rarely do we see one man with 
money enough to own a large rail- 
road, or steam ship line. Capital- 
ists combine, they unite their cap- 
ital for one great industry or under- 
taking. They get others interested 
in it, to take shares, thus they build 
up a gigantic organization. If con- 
ducted properly this is a grand 
thing. But oftentimes after capital 
is so thoroughly organized and the 
organizers have becbme wealthy be- 
yond their dreams of avarice, they 
say to the working man, “We ‘don’t 
want you to organize, we want to 
hire and discharge no matter what 
the cause; we simply want to write 
‘your services no longer required’ on 
the pay envelope without any ex- 
plantation.’’ To say this most effec- 
tively the employers have organized 
themselves into ‘‘Employers’ Or- 
ganization,’’ etc. There are some as- 
sociations that are conservative and 
long-headed enough to deal with or- 
ganized labor justly. I am here be- 
olized land and property for their . 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
“The Christ of Today and the Employers.” 
on Industural Question in Sermon Last Sunday Morning. 
loved, this morning to deal justly 
with both employers and employees. 
But I am also here to condemn 
those associations known as ‘‘ Union 
Smashers’’, which are doing all they 
can to break up the Union and work- 
ing men’s rights. This is not help- 
ing the cause of industrial peace and 
it is also contrary to the demands 
of Jesus Christ for justice. For what 
does the Lord require of thee, but to 
do justice? We know when there 
are a lot of industrial plants they 
are working against each other. But 
when they combine they work to- 
gether. It is a great saving if they 
are managed for the good of man- 
kind in general. The same rules 
that apply to organization of capit- 
alists will apply to organization of 
the working men. The capitalists 
are so powerful they get legislation 
favorable to their own _ interests. 
They sometimes import working 
men whom they keep unorganized 
to keep down and hold back the 
American working man, who _ is 
coming to be more highly organized. 
I do not believe that there are two 
standards, one for employers and 
another for employee. I believe in 
the square deal for both employer 
and employee. What doth the Lord 
require of thee, but to do justice? 
This is the first great requirement. 
We must insist that the employ- 
er be just with the employee. Jus- 
tice is a great word. If working 
men require justice of employer, so 
the employer demands just of the 
employee. The employer demands 
that the working men who are or- 
ganized shall keep their agreement. 
I am sorry to say organized labor 
has not always kept their agree- 
ments, as a result the employer has 
lost thousands of dollars. The 
strike when rightly used is beneficial 
to organized labor. The sympathy 
strike is In some instances a help. 
But there is a limit to that right. If 
for instance there is a strike among 
the textile workers, and they go to 
the carpenters to go out and help 
them. But if those carpenters have 
made an agreement with their em- 
ployers to work for the same wages 
say for 5 years, they are bound in 
the sight of God to keep that agree- 
ment, and cannot go out on a strike, 
no matter how much they may be in 
sympathy with their fellow work- 
ers. And to break that agreement 
is a crime in the sight of God. Em- 
ployers demand that the labor lead- 
ers be wise, long-headed and free 
from graft. If a delegate is a man 
of no principle he becomes an in- 
jury to the labor union, and a tool 
in the hands of the trusts. Union 
men will sometimes be found who 
attend the meetings simply to carry 
back a full report of the business 
transactions to the employer. The 
working men do not as a rule be- 
heve in that sort of thing. They 
don’t want such a man as their lead- 
er. It is also a great and just thing 
that membership in a union should 
mean character and fitness. When 
that is so, it will be a great day for 
employer and employee. The Stand- 
ard day work should also be abol- 
ished. 
Society and the world at large are 
interested in a large production. The 
employers and consumers resent 
anything that limits a man’s out put. 
The standard day’s work, or dicta- 
ting how much a man should do, is 
the enemy of the short day. There 
must be no loafing, no shiftlessness, 
for poor work and slow work is the 
enemy of the employee. The em- 
ployer also demands that the labor 
press deal truthfully and calmly 
with the questions of times and not 
falsify. But in seeking fair play 
they must give fair play in return. 
2. The second requirement of the 
employer is to love merey. <A few 
months ago the newspapers gave an 
account of a man who fell into a 
tank of quid metal and was never 
seen. These things are commonly 
happening. Who this man was the 
papers didn’t state. Maybe he left 
a wife, and little children, maybe 
an aged father or mother depending 
on him for support. These industrial 
accidents are causing untold heart- 
aches. Many are killed every week, 
or crippled for hfe in machinery. 
The great burder of all this rested 
largely on the American working 
man. Labor has many heavy bur- 
dens to bear. Some people are now 
beginning to ‘see that’ they should 
share in the loss. Modern industry 
is so complicated that thére will 
result a loss of human life. It is 
time that more of the employers 
arose to the oceasion and took an in- 
terest in the modern working man 
and their human lives. Merey re- 
quires that we do all we ean to 
bear the burden of loss of human 
lives, Some forget justice and say 
