The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29

wages for labOrerS are such as to fur
nish themga living for themselves and
their families of a kind equal to what
they are or ought to be for persons
who labor. A man as laborer is cap
ital as really as cash is capital. To
waste the inaifAto injure his health or
his mofals,:fto prevent his reasonable
Developments as a person, or to make
paupers of his family, is like wasting
cash capital. The right to keep man
at full value as a person is right
co-ordinate with the right to keep cash
capital at its full value as cash, and
it is a right which business as bust
ness proposition can so recognize.
The recognition of these and kindred
principles will prevent strikes, or at
least go far toward preventing them.
To recognize the fact that labor is a
thing, but the laborer is a person, will
clear away many difficulties. In the
solving of industrial problems the own
ers of cash capital and the owners of
labor capital must meet as equals be-
fore the law And when this is done
the mixed problems of business and
philanthrophy will find easy solution.
Books on the Subject.
In the nature Of the case, business
and industries can be better conducted
according to rules and methods which
may be applied with a large degree
of flexibility than by the more severe
forms of stdtlrtes. And as industrial
courts, to be effective in the preventing
of strikes or ending them, must make
their decisions on the basis of indus
trial methods and rules of business
rather than on the basis of inflexible
laws, compilation of such rules and
methods should be made for the use
of these courts.
Let a committee of fifteen be ap-
pointed by the president, and approved
by the senate, to prepare a book for
this purpose. Let this committee
gather from all available sources in
formation which shall enable them to
put in concise and convenient form
such rules of business and such state
mentS of approved industrial methods
as may apply in the solving of all
problems which have to do with strikes
and their causes, as well as the things
which they are designed to accomplish.
This book should conform in style to
the codifying Of laws for easy refer
ence. Principles involved in industrial
and business problems shonuld be
clearly stated. Rules and methods
sohuld- be putin form for easy appli-
cation. Andafip every way the book
should be so arranged as to be easily
form or the court 1t should codify all
statutes which may be applied in in
dustriaI cases. 1t should define the
rights involved in Industrial problems.
1t should show the relations of persons
and things, and show how the inter
ests of the one are to be recognized
and respected by the other. This is
a general Outline of the scope of the
book to be prepared. =
Such a book, if subjected to the criti-
cisms of judges of courts and the ap-
prevail of legislatures, would have such
force of authority that it might be
used in industrial courts in substan
TALLY the same way that civil courts
use the statutes on which they depend.
Industries in which strikes are liable
to occur have to- do with money and
the. persons who control it, and with
labor and the persons who perform it.
The plan here proposed aims to treat
as co-ordinafes the money and the Ia
Dor because they are things; and to
treat as equals the capitalist and the
laborer because they are persons.
Things and persons are not .ce-ordi-
nate; and yet any proposition from the
one TO the other is consistent IL having
to do with interests of coordinate
value AndEsthis<H plan recognizes and