The San Francisco call., 1901-10-11
INTERESTS
OF ALL ARE
IDENTICAL
Modern Social Rules Must
Be Ignored by Those
Who Hire
Help.

fed. There should be mutual understanding
between employers and their help and both
should be animated by common tie of brother
hood and fealty.
Bishop Potter then spoke of the opera
tions of the Board of Mediation and Con-
of New York, of Zilfcn he is
president He said the board came into
being without authority and added that
that was the reason probably why he was
chosen as its president. The board was
in existence some ten years and had set
tied a number of momentous labor dis
turbances. The operations of the board
were conducted on the principle that
nothing tangible could be accomplished if
the question of social contact was ig-
nored. Resuming, he said:
HARMONY IS LACKING.
We have not yet learned to extinguish that
characteristic by which we differentiate be-
tween those antagonistic elements that make
up modern society. There is no complete nar-
mony of seStiment and idea. The mischief of
the modern social order is that the moment
people begin to accumulate money or lands or
any other valuables. other people begin to diff
ferentiate themselves from the that
should be haImoniously co-operated in by all
alike. Cnust received sinners and ate with
them, but the modern Phariseeism prompts
men to ignore those who are beneath them
socially, or whose degree is of the baser sort
The greatest missionary society in the world
is that society which follows the precepts of
Christ and establishes a brotherhood among all
sorts and conditions of men. That is the aim
Of the Church Association for the Advance
ment Of the Interests of Labor. 1t is to rem
edy defects we come in contact with every
day that the association was called into being
stood one day in front of a factory and
saw 500 men going out 20 dinner I said to
the owner OF the factory: How many of
these men DO you know" He looked at me
astonished. and though he did not say il I
knew he felt that 1 was very presumptuous
The times require change from conditions
like this. 1t has always been a question in
my mind whether the industrial DEVELOPMENT
Of the nineteenth century has been of benefit
to human society. I dined with family
in New York. the housewife Of which went to
store and bought everything for the table
including pressed meat, baked beans brown
bread canned fruits. Everything came I'm
tins or glass jars, and not a thing was pre-
pared in that home.
When ] was young women touched homo
lie with the charms of their personality. 1t
inspiI ation to dine at a housewife $,
table Atty years ago. The modern system. the
result Of advancement along Industrial lines
seems to me to be radically wrong and worthy
Of remodeiing.
The latorer and employer must be brought
closer together. You may legislate as YOU
please impose taxation as you please or by
any other process readjust the conflicting ele-
ments OF modern society, but If you have not
your heart in the work you will fail utterly
The solution of the labor problem consists IN
the awakening in the hearts of the employer
a deep concern for the welfare Of those who
are in his employ. Their ideas and hopes should
not be antagonistic They should mipgIe tn
gether and observe the laws of social contact
Their aims being identical, their methods
should be harmonious if those aims are to he
subserved
AIMS OF THE SOCIETY.
When Bishop Potter concluded his ad-
dress Miss Harriet Keyser, general Sec
retary of the C. A. A. 1. L.. was intro
duced. She told of the organization of
the association in 1887, and outlined the
work in which it is engaged The main
| object of the society was to teach men,
bers the contentious use of the ballot.
although no partisan politics are encour-
aged. The society aimed to promote fell
! lowship among men. She alluded to the
abuses of labor in New York, Of people
living in frightful tenements, and won ap-
plause with the statement that mo syn
dicate can purchase sunlight and air,
those unpurchasable gifts of Cod She