But when compulsory health insurance and compulsory unemployment insurance are proposed the question arises at once, what are the conditions and regulations to be imposed by the Government to regulate the conduct of the supposed beneficiaries. That was in 1919. This organization shows how well we in the United States, and you here in the Dominion of Canada get along together, how well we work in harmony and amity, each working for and with the other toward the goal of the advancement and security of mankind, and not toward its retrogression and destruction. Thomas Mann, a German who is now a refugee in the United States and who, as many of you know, has written two or three of the great novels of this time, said in one of his recent public addresses at Princeton University that unity is of course essential to great, modern nations, and great modern governments. Unity in a democracy of free people is accomplished by common moral purpose.
Unity is accomplished, and can only be accomplished by common moral purpose.
We are feeling the unity which comes from a common moral purpose. These associations which are international in their character, and have a great moral purpose as their objective, are, I think, more people in a democratic society, governed by the principles of a representative government. This organization in which the States of this country, and the Provinces of Canada have worked harmoniously together over the years, for the development and improvement of a pioneer form of social legislation is deserving of every success in its efforts on behalf of workers and management. Perhaps, it was because as I read each passage, I could reach out and touch some of the people. They are very real people to me, very real life.