The weekly examiner., 1901-03-23
A HINT TO BOSSES.
CLAIM THAT FAIR AND KINDLY TREAT
 MENT OF EMPLOYEES PAYS.

MENT OF EMPLOYEES PAYS.
 A Side Slap mt Unions and Labor Agi-
 tatOrs, but There Is Virtual Admfs-
 sion That They Afe Needed With
 All but Exceptional Employees.
 t'What More Than Wages" is a spe- cial department in Social Service con- ducted by W. H. Holman, Ph. 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. Dr. Moreau
 Morris has most aptly described the
 present industrial situation:
 Capital, labor and conscience, with
 the knowledge that we are our broth
 CTS keeper, must eventually bring all
 right minded employers to the convic-
 tion that the personal welfare of their
 employees will assuredly be financially
 profitable in their business relations as
 we'll as the satisfaction to their con-
 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 2,OOO operatives, for all that time there had been harmony and mu- tual confidence between employer and employees. MT. Burke, in letter to the American Humane Educational so- ciety, writes:
 'How, during all these years, in which so many changes have taken place, has there been no strike, no grumbling, no unrest, no complaint, no whisper of discontent? 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 1aborious or fatiguing than ! in the other? No. Is there different class of persons employed in this mill from that in the other? No. It is this: Senor 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 employee was sick he sent a doctor to look after him and paid for the necessary medicines. In case the employees illness continued he paid on recovery the wages the per son would have received had he or she been at work during the time. Tn case of the death of the employee the wages went to the family of the deceased, and besides, if the circumstances of \ the family were such as to require it, U When his operatives married, he helped ! to set them up in housekeeping by presenting to the married couple sew ! eral household articles which are in dispensable for those entering such a 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 recompensed 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.
 'sThe operatives had no labor organ \ ization They needed none. Through | this law of kindness the business of \ the mill was conducted. Discord, dis ! satisfaction, discontent, 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 once to Senor Larios.
 s'The 2OOO employees loved Don Car | los as they lovec a father, and if any one had spoken iH of him in the pres ence of any employee the employee | would have resented it as quickly is if | Iu6i III SpOkcA WoEO WcEe utlcISO dOOuS \ the employee himself.
 "He sought to follow the teachings of the Divine Master in doing to others what he would like that they should ! do to him, and so when at the age Of 75 he went on the 21st of last January to his God his body was followed to | the cemetery by about 30,OOO of Nal aga's citizens"
 Hand and Machine Labor.