The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-20
Cooperative productions.

The disparity between the compen-
sation received by capital and labor in
the world industries has always been
productive of evil consequences, resolv-
ing itself into burning question which
agitat ting Is the civilized world. The
problem the working classes of Christ
endom have to solve is how to obviate
the present apparent necessity for
machinery and workshops, or to use
another expression, capital receiving
more pay than the combined wages of
labor.
In the treatment of this question in
Utah it behooves the working people to
support by their means any industrial
movement which promises to develop
the Territory's resources and to
be profitable Investment, as
far as practicable inaugurating
those manufactures which in them
their own solution as far as the prob
cerned. Individually we believe the
only cure of the labor evils is to be
found in the bulk of the laborers be-
coming the capitalists, thereby obtain
ing for their own use the tools, ma
chinery, and workshops which are now
owned by their employers, and which
every year produce an increased
amount of profit for their owners.
We have heard it remarked, as one of
the advantages of our Territory. that
it is populated with class of people
who are averse to strikes. While we do
not doubt the accuracy of this state
ment under existing circumstances, we
are fully convinced that such condi-
tons will not always character ze our
population. AS the Territory becomes
settled and industries are commenced,
creating an activity and competition in
their products which has never before
been known in their lines, in the or
binary course of things, the same cause
will produce similar effects in Utah
that it has inNew York or elsewhere, so
long as human nature remains the
same as it has been since the days of
Adam.
It should be our aim, therefore, to
establish manufacturing enterprises, as
far as possible, that pay larger, or at
least as large, an amount IN wages to
their workmen as the capitalist receives
for the use of his money, and where this
cannot be done, in order to distribute
the wealth to be produced over wider
area, we should endeavor to create
industries where only q moderate
amount of money is required, so that
the working classes may have an OPP
portunity of subscribing capital, that
they may have the benefit of the larger
profits and still be paid in no greater
ratio than workmen in the same branch
of business in other places.
The manufacture of glass is one OF,
the few industries which pay the
laborer more than the capitalist. and
hence should be supported and 70: tered
by the people as atfording employment
ia the production of articles which the
people is constantly demanding, and re-
ducing the likelihood of strikes at any
time TO minimum.
We do not think it will be ques-
toned for a moment by any impartial
thinker, that the many should be paid
more than the few, or that live labor
should receive more wages than dead
capital, as represented in machinery
and workshops, and it is hardly neces-
sary to point out that the opposite of
this is the present condition of things.
Glass-msking employs more adults
than children. It pays, in the United