The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-08
ADVICE TO BOSSES N
4, DEALING WITH LABOR.
Cleveland Gentlemen Gives Bosses
- What He Calls Common
Sense Advice. ~ ~ ii

NEW YORK, April 29,-The National
Metal Trades association. at their
! convention in Hotel .Astor, have been
treated to some sensible suggestions
On tine relation OF capital and labor
from David Gibson, the editor Of
| Common Sense, OF Cleveland, Ohio. He
told the gentlemen of the convention
that they do not go about their bust
! ness in the right way when dealing
with the men they fleece. r." n
According to the Common Sense ed
itor much more can be gotten out Of
workingmen If some practical policies
are adopted. The thing to be remem-
bered, Inc said, is that labor is not
| much more than dog, and a little
sweetness will gain the workingman.
His common sense" speech follows
| in part: ,.
"One thing you perhaps do not know,
and that is that the average man~in
your shops does not produce what he
is comfortably capable Of producing
| by 40 per cent.
This means that you are losing 10
| cent of the equipment, 40 per cent of
| the general administration, 40 per cent
| Of your opportunity, and that Of the
men themselves. /!
"The only way to increase the pro-
| duction Of the human machine is by
raising it's ideals. -
Labor conditions are the result of
low ideals, low ideals are the result
! of Ignorance, ignorance is the lack of
| education, and education is the lack
! Of publicity. '..
| 1T is a question in my mind if we
fully realize the ignorance Of those
who constitute labor"
The Common Sense editor then pro-
ceeded to tell that the workingmen
are tine really happy men. Here are
| the reasons: 49, ~+.
"Blessed are those who live from
hand to mouth; for their next meal
is all they have tozworry about
"The boss has his troubles, even II
he does rest:his feet on Turkish rug,
| and it is sometimes the biggest auto
mobile that carries the heaviest heart
''The labor leaders have taken up
advantage over you: They get your
men in hall over a corner saloon
on a Sunday afternoon and tell then,
anything they please about you, for
you have not the opportunity of deny
ing or explaining. - The labor leaders
have done what: you have not done
applied form of publicity.
Tabor alone :, is responsible for
maintaining every prison in the land
as hotbed Of .idleness, tuberculosis
and as a postgraduate college in nigh
er crime. -: :~n
"Eyery pair of, idle hands is a tax
against every pair,eof employed hands
Labor is good deal like some dogs,
Make a kindly Demonstration In. Its
direction and It'll :!p PIT its feet in your
lap.
fireplace all t}As broken window
with whole ones.
"A very wise old man once told me
that he could tell concern that had
labor troubles by looking at the out
side Of the building.
81 am inclined to think he was right
for we create as we think. If we think
disorderly thoughts we have disorder
ly people and things around us.
/ "Don't confine yourself to the
labor question. Use anything that
you think is interesting, truthful and
instructive. If you can: get men tc
think right ON one subject they will
begin to think right on all subjects
including labor conditions."-New York
Call.