Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-12-04
THELABOR PROBLEM.
UniO ism Con tains Much rTha Ls G Ool
and Some Bad.


How to secure fair treatment alike for
labor and for capital, how to hold in
check the INSCRIPTIONS man, whether
employer or employe, without weakening
and cramping the Industrial development
of the country, is problem fraught with
great dltf1culties and one which it is Of
the higheStFimpOr to solve on lines
of sanity and far-sighted common sense
as well as of devotion to the right This
Is an era Of federation and combination.
Exactly as business men find they must
often work through corporations, and as
1t Is a constant tendency of these corr
porations to grow larger, so it is often
necessary for laboring men to work in
portant factors of modern industrial life
Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and
labor, can do much good. and as a nee
to each Kind Of aG
should take the form of opposition to
whatever is bad in the conduct of any
given corporation or union-not of at
tacks upon corporations as such nor upon
unions as such; for some of the most
far-reaching benefcent work for our peo-
pie has been accomplished through both
frain from arbitrary or styrannous inter-
ference with the rights Of others Or
ganized capital and organized labor alike
should remember that in the long run
into harmony with the interest of the
general public: and the conduct of each
must conform to the fundamental rules
Of obedience to the law, Of Individual
freedom, and of Justice and fair dealing
toward all. Each should remember that
IL addition to power it must strive after
erous ideals. Every employer, every
wage worker. must be guaranteed his
liberty and his right to do as he likes
with his property or his labor. SO long
Of others. 1t is of the highest impor-
lance that employer and employee alike
should endeavor to appreciate each the
aster that will come upon both in the the
long run if either grows to take as habit
ual an attitude of sour hostility and dis
trust toward the other. Few people de-
representatives both of capital and labor
and there are many such-who work
continually to bring about a good under;
and upon broad and kindly sympathy be-
tween employers and employed Ahpvel
all, we need to remember that any Kind
is, if possible, even more wicked, "S1 IN
more destructive to national welfare,
than sectional, race or religious animos-
ity:- We San N get good government only
principles upon which this nation was
founded, and judge each man not as
par: of class but upon his individual
of any man, rich or poor, whatever his
his residence, is that he shall act well
and honorably by his neighbor and by
his country We are neither for the rich
man as such nor for the poor man as
such; we are for the upright man. rich
or poor. So far as the constitutional
powers of the national government touch
these matters of general and vital mo-
ment to the nation, they should be eyer
cised in conformity with the principles
above set forth.
Recommends Department Of Com
q
It is earnestly hoped that secretary Of
commerce may be created, with seat in
the cabinet The rapid multiplication of
questions affecting labor and capital. the
growth and complexity of the organizations
through which both labor and capital now
find expression, the steady tendency to-
ward the employment of capital in huge
corporations, and the wond erful strides Of
this country toward leadership in the in
ternational business world justify an ur-
gent dema nd for the creation of such DO
sition. Substantially all the leading com
mercial bodies in. this country have united
in requesting its creation It is desirable
that some such measure as that which has
already passed the senate be enacted into
law. The creation of such department
would in itself be an advance toward deal
ing with and exercising supervision over
the whole subject of lie great corporations
doing an interstate business; and with this
end in view, the congress should endoW
the department with large powers which
could be increased as experience might
show the need: