The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-12-01
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CLAIM THAT FAIR AND KIND TREAT.
,ENT OF EMPLOYEES PAYS. =
4 Side Slap at Unions, and Labor
Agitators, Hut There Is Virtual
Admission That They Are Needed
With All But Exceptional En-
plOyes-Substituted the Law OF
Kindness for That of Greed.

what More Than Wages" is a spe-
cial department in Social Service con-
Quoted by w. H. Tolman, Phi. D. Two
special studies have been described in
this department-the manufacture of
soap and the making of cash registers.
In each of these it has been demon
strated that the movements for indus
trial betterment pay. DIR. Moreau
Morris has most APPLY described the
present industrial situation:
Capital, labor and conscience, with
the knowledge that we are our BROTH
er's keeper, must eventually bring all
right minded employers to the convic-
ton that the personal welfare of their
sciences in having ameliorated and
benefited their fellow men and elevat-
ed the moral tone of these communities
in their family and social relations"
The loss of many hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in wages, the distress
! of miners families and the mutual bit
terness engendered by reason Of the
great coal strike which has just come
to an end all serve to emphasize the
| fact that there is "a more excellent
| way"
A few years ago pamphlet on the
best methods of settling the difficulties
| between capital and labor fell into the
hands of Hon. D. N. Burke, who was
at that time United States consul at
Malaga, Spain, and led him to write an
account of two cotton mills that stood
side by side in that city. For 40 years
one of them had been distracted by
| strikes, while in the other, employing
about 1000 operatives, for all that
time there had been harmony and mu-
tual confidence between employer and
employees. Mr.. Burke, in letter to
the American Humane Educational So
ciety, writes:
which so many changes have taken
place, has there been no strike, no
grumbling, no unrest, no complaint, no
whisper of discomfort? Have higher
wages been paid in this mill than in
the other? No. Have the hours of
labor been fewer? No. Has the work
been less laborious or fatiguing than
in the other? No. Is there a different
class of persons employed in this mill
from that in the other? No. It is this:
Senior Don Carlos Larios, the owner of
the mill and the employer of the opera
tives. has applied the law of kindness
to his employees. He, in fact, substi-
tuted the law: of kindness for the prac-
tice Of greed. If an employe was sick
he sent a doctor to look after him and
paid for the necessary medicines. In
case the employees illness continued
In oojl to4-
son would have received had he or she
been at work during the time. In case
Of. the death of the employe the wages
. went to the family of the deceased
and besides, if thei circumstances of
the family were such as to require it,
i he betrayed the expenses Of burial.
j When his operatives married., he help
edsto set them up in housekeeping by
/ presenting to the married couple sew
eral household articles which are in
dispensible for those entering such q
state. Extraordinary diligence and
/ care on the part of the employee in his
or her work, or greater activity dis
played by an operative, was duly re-
compensed in some way at some time
by the proprietor Of the mill, and every
operative being aware Of this sought
to do his very best.
1.-THE operatives had no labor organ
ization. They needed none. Through
: this law of kindness the business of
the mill was conducted. Discord, dis
satisfaction, discomfort, unrest and
strikes were not on the programme OF
this mill. They had no use for labor
agitators. If an operative had any
ground of complaint, he went at one
to Senior Larios.
1.-The 1000 employees loved Don Car
los as they loved father, and if any
one had spoken i'll of him in the pres
ence of an employe the employe
would have resented it as quickly as If
the ill spoken word We're uttered about
the employee: himself.
HE sought to follow the teachings
of the Devine Master in doing to others
what he would. like that they should
do to him, and so when at the age of
IS he went on the 21st of last January
to his God his body was followed to the
cemetary by about 10000 of Malaga's
citizens
! GRASP THE HAND OF FORTUNE.