Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-30
YOUTH VS. AGE in LABOR PROBLEM.
How Young Men Are crowdnq the Old desperate
Competition Every Hend-cold Business over
rules Sentiment
lnnnnnnrIub

| Dor alone, and without regard to the
! other factors IN production, this gener-
al fact that the manufacturers IN this
country With whom we have TO compete
employ a much larger proportion OF
men at the maximum OF their powers
than we employ tells heavily against
MS and in your favor for trade We hold
% a sentiment that continues men I'm
our employ SO long as they remain
reasonably efficient. no matter what
their age. Your manufacturers elm
mate sentiment altogether and turn the
workman out after he has used up his
hest powers causing him 10 yield his
place 90 new and vigorous man. who,
when he shan fail to keep the high pace.
must IN turn make way for another
man. This is a dreadful use Of men.
but IT makes you deadly competitors In
the manufacturing line, Other things
being equal. It puts our British manu-
facmrors at a great disadvantage.
What Mr. Walker said about the dis
advantage OF the British manufacturers
as compared with American maHufac-
tuners is true enough, but what about
the laborers? What about the British
and American laborers2 Certainly the
American laborer IS subjected to COM
petltlVe conditions for employment
about which the British laborers know
nothing, Here cold hard money get.
ting desire causes manufacturers. or at
least the larger manufacturers who
strive against British manufacturers
for trade, TO disregard an emotions OF
the heart and to buy the highest quail
ity OF labor just as they would buy the
highest quality Of pig iron,
DYED HAIR TO HOLD JOB.
/ know master paper hanger, o man
SO skilled and exhibiting such taste I'm
his vocation that he may well be called
ah artist Moreover, be is surprisingly
agile, more so than most paper hang
ers Of 30, although he Is past so. But
10 years ago his hair began to turn
gray. He dyed It and kept on dyeing
II. II am marked man with gray
hair' he explained to me. THAT gem
orally indicates waning powers, and
what is wanted Is the workingman at
his best. When his powers begin TO 80
then his job goes. | can work with the
nest as to quality and quantity Of ac-
plishment. but the silver touch on my
head would be fatal to my employment. !
There are plenty OF young men standing
about waiting 10 take my place or the |
place Of men like me, and should my |
employers see what Is commonly !
thought to be the sign of lessenlng ener- |
gy ! should be quietly dropped and a |
younger man would on my place. The |
change would not be done harshly or |
roughly ! should simply end some |
morning that my employer had found Il |
necessary To lay me of and then after |
i had called many times at the shop |
expecting to be put on again / should |
become aware Of the fact that the es-
tablishment was running full-handed
and that all the familiar people were at
work except me-that a new man was
working In the place | had been accus-
toned to MI. So | dye my hair TO re-
semble that Of young man. and / do
what ] can TO hide the lines and wrin-
kes' | must keep the employment. for
! have dependent family
PHILOSOPHY OF CARNEGIE.
This Is not an imaginative story.
Many an old and experienced work.
man can tell Of similar cases coming
within his own knowledge, and outside
OF the trade unions they are extremely
common.
! think II was Mr.. Carnegie who not
long ago was reported to have advised
me management OF one of the older es.
adjustments connected with the iron
INDUSTRY to put new energy into its
business by discharging the old men
ana employing young ones. He tenta.
'iyely admitted that such an action
might appear hard and radical. but ne
pointed out that such a course was
necessary Il the establishment was not
TO lag In trade.
or course il is well known that this
IS IN fun accord with Mr.. Carnegie's
philosophy He does not venture Ia saw
now ms views might be modified n -
linlselt were differently situated ans
were not the dispenser of $500 600 900 In
sums OF millions and parts of millions
Ior libraries and other public institute
IONS 70 bear his name chiseled IN stone
pr nodded IN brass upon their expansive
.acades. He Ignores or at least folls IN
make mention Of the great special priv
Ieges used by himself and others to
1ulld up huge private fortunes Ho
consistently and broadly intimates thar
hese fortunes are due to genius. indus-
NY and thrift, so that the deduction
must be drawn that the mass of men
gre leIt to struggle In poverty or tho
eur OF II because they have not Ike
mount OF genius industry and thrift
NATURAL LAW DECREE.
This reveals to us his view NJ ba
business Of wedding out the oIdlsb mon
'lnong the workers and the emlovmont
;, the young and strong and energetic
ne says that this Is not a condition
made by human institutions. II is de-
reed by natural law, which law. saws
le In his book, The Gospel of Wealth"
page -, may be sometimes hard Ia,
ne individual but Il Is best for The
ace, because It lnsures the survival of |
ne httest in every department"
How m0nStrous such q statement isi
low plasphemous to put upon God Al
nlghty want and suffering that are
iuch prolific begetters Of sin and crimei
Let any man or woman of common
tense consider for moment, Each |
human being comes into the world with
Independent physical powers that win !
'nable him TO satisfy his wants n be
IAN but apply his labor TO nature. II
me We're not so, then how have the
primitive races continued even for
mort period to exist? And how have
ne primitive people advanced 10 higher
lagcs Of social lie?
II really requires only a slight human
Mort tn utfuptv 81. .f...t-. I