The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-07-15
JOY IN LABOR seen by :.
PREACHER WHO IS IDLE
Bishop Lawrence Of Massachu
setts Wants Labor to Take
More Interest in Work.
Makes Several Good Points,
. But Deals With Question
Like Most Theorists Do.

Albany, N. T., July 13.-Bishop Law
renee Of Massachusetts addressed a
large audience. at a Chautauqua near
here this week on THE Joy Of Do
ing Ones Part" He said in part:
Every public spirited citizen Is glad
to see the hours Of labor reduced to
the smallest amount consistent with
the prosperity of society and the well
fare of the laborer. :'-Granted that
even the hours Of labor should b.
reduced to seven. six. five, or even
four hours, the problem has not been
met. Humanity cannot endure having
tens Of thousands Of men. women and
children pass even four hours a day
in which work is joyless, benunbing
to intellectual and spiritual faculties.
and which drives the workers to say
that they live bysit. and not for it.
Every one Of us has been to some
factory or Industrial center. where,
through the lack of sympathy between
the people and the managers, there
has been stolidity and even sullenness
OF temper, and where the people have
gone to their work and returned home
with heavy tread and joyless. They
have stayed there only because they
had to. They have taken no pride
or satisfaction in their labor, because
of a sense of injustice: or hopeless
ness. They had no thought that they
were the part Of a great organization,
no interest in the success or develop
ment Of the work. Each man, woman
and child did his stint and did it
because they had to.
In contrast with this. visited
few weeks ago the Hampton Institute
IN Virginia. There are hundreds of
young men and women preparing to
go out upon the plantation and into
the shop. There was sense of JOY
and ,buoyancy and responsibility in the
work. You could feel it almost in the
finger tips Of the mechanics, the milli-
ners and the taiIors,s:for they felt not
only that they were q. part of great
benificent institution. but as negroes
and Indians who had been selected as
representatives of their race they real
lied that upon their, efforts depended
to a great degree the condition OF
their people a generation hence
Now I believe that the one motive
that il needed in the great body Of our
~ aoplA Itch INDY Einatill-
81 III clstidhod ana znurtured IN youth
and manhood. Is the sense that each
and all Of them. wherever they are
placed, are doing their share, If they
live in the right spirit toward building
up the great social fabric of which they
are part. This is an age Of team
play, and the test Of character Of the
team is as to whether each man will
do his part not only for himself but for
the whole body.
To some Is given one position; to
Others another. Those who have the
best positions have the responsibility
and the privilege Of doing all in their
power to make life as happy as possi-
bic for those who are in the harder
positions. But ifreoneT can only in
spire in the life of the humblest me-
chanic in our humblest factory the
thought that he. in working patiently,
efficiently, steadily, and with a high
character, is doing his part toward
the building up Of the great social
fabric, he will have given him a mo-
tive which will make his labor easier,
better and indeed full Of Joy.