New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-15
EMPLOYER And EMPLOYE.
Ho5v Relations Should Be Regulated
on Both Sides.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

Company, of Cleveland, will not too reaolly aoah-
don step he has taken in the right direction and
trust he will go just step further. and that ne
will remain steadfast realizing that If he faints not
| he will surely reap his reward.
Ny business life has been passed mostly In serving
others. passing from position of to places
of greater trust and responsibility in railroad ser
vice and in commercial life. having charge fire.
Quenty of large number of men. and in position
where have seen the forming of the unions and
the causes that produced the unions.
In speaking in one Of the railroad clubs OF which
l am member L recently said:
OF time dealing with effects rather than an effort to
There has perhaps been time in our his
tory when railroads and manufacturers have been
front them to-day. and it seems to that we are
asng mistake In giving al our energies sre aI
thought and consideration to the cause and treat
II our cellar were full Of water. and the water ran
into the cellar about fast as we dipped the water
cellar. but If we will devote little time to finding
stop the water running in. we can quickly empty
We will not get the best results from those whom
We employ through any effort except that which
gether No matter how much ready cash may
have available no matter what the nature OF me
except we have the labor that will utilize the capt.
and the present condition of things, from my oh.
servauon which extends over period upward OF
of men is due entirely to the fact that labor has
not had its share of the profits or business
We have built up the labor unions of to-day be-
cause Of methods of the past which have made Il
necessary for men to organize and as an organized
is not long since said to the president 9s 96s
are unfortunately putting premium on unions unions;
them to organize and make demands for their
rights. great deal is involved in reaching posi-
that right wrongs one There are great many Any
for great many years and they know that in
their earlier experience as in the experience ep oa
employed. and those who are employed have in this
way cultivated habit Of harshnsss amG Is net
both employer and employee to find each calling the
either with axes or with hatchets. nor by calling
one another harsh names; you must get together;
employe can meet wherein neither Will trespass
You can't plant Peachblow potatoes and raise
peach orchard. Like begets like There is no ques-
manufacturing business most nearly approaches the
i tb 6ans in time psst employers have adopted
many suberfuses. solely for the purpose OF re-
ducing the price OF labor and increasing the pront
II the profits increased to the manufactured the
should jusy N m Re soma exp
rence that man who employed me adiG dT a ~
that which my own. and have also Ieit thaI
Il failed to earn my compensatonLevery o6IisT
employer just as much as though took noit icy
place Of business and appropriated it TO my
sonai We need to-day 10 begin with the young
| by precept more than by words that all kinds OF
should be not to see how little can be done but
the contrary. that the effort should be 10 SEE now
the employer that the employer shall feel that he
cannot do without them. $500, .x,o-,o.,oo
that when boy OF about sixteen years OF age re-
been Forgotten / was doing that in business hours
should not hnye f S o 6g' on ne @ shoulder
with the remark that that would not do in business
came quickly that my work was done and nd he said
TO me Then help some one else 20 u. thei1 %Otk 80
! that: earn ali GET In response to the inquiry
Ask SS w nd board nyself His hand went back on
nv shoulder again in kindly way, ana ne s@ ara;
lust as long you only try TO earn lust what you
! Oh so thankfuI and am to-day. and bear tribute
| 10 that mans memory for saying those things to
work and II was not very long after that that my
wages were considerably Increased ala my part
ANY We nc stoppe. the water from running into the
It is these things we as employers need 10 bring
to the boy we nsed 10 rongsdeTmtioR that those
who are working by the day in our shops and else
%fn na environments than those that have sur
rounded they hay, not aeghre1 mo that as
you analyze this question YOU will md that , me ne
nnfairness that has been engendered between part
in business. labor and capital thT0asn EEL
| most is TO stop pushing one another further away
nuu s tSat there is has made bountiful provision
for all and by patient and kind endeaV3E 10 m,nE
we can do more to eradicate present troubles than
| we can by employing walking delegates for the EN-
great man has said. and he is great only be,
enT mans life win be iled with constant and IN
expected encouragements II ne MAKE up ms mlh1 10
this is true for It has been proved so in my life
thought before he can transfer it to the canvas No
locomotive II ne constantly thinks about wheel
t,,or.lv hold in our Individual consciousness. and
employers and employees must learn es cas- or
through suffering that we cannot escape me reap
ING Of our own seed sewing. Cause and erect can
not be separated, and all must know that no man
has the right to prevent announcer rum ""iA
| through any act OF Vlolehce'
9Th. man who is afraid will do more work than
hts salary calls for will not have much salary to
call for IS true and II is also true That the man
urho works for a salary is not the onv man VINO Is
trying to get something for nothing; there are
others engaged I'm the same direction. and In the
and both must fail Of their purpose hut in the
mean time much suffering follows and all OF which
a spirit Of honesty of purpose would avoid
The average employer is unfair to his employees.
and utterly fails TO meet his just obligations to his
fellowman and to his God
To ILLUSTRATED At one time managed the branch
house of a certain firm which subsequently incor-
porated its business and then required all branch
houses TO purchase all their goods from the parent
house The parent house charged its branches fire.
onentlv considerably 10 per cent profit their
purchases because the resident manager had a
percentage in the profits of the branch over
which he presided.
At one time q manager Of one OF these houses
succeeded in getting nearly $4,000 OF this corpora
tion's funds out of a failing bank although he had
| no authority whatever to sign any checks on this
account and this day the president of that cor
poration has expressed one word of gratitude
to this man for what done, and although ac-
knowedged by all OUTSIDE as a faithful servant
When this man resigned he was never told Good