The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
WORLDWIDE PEACE
 THROUGH INDUSTRY
Working Capital and Working People Instead of Food For Powder to Become the Means of Peace In the Future
 Plea For Universal Brotherhood
BY GRAHAM TAYLOR, Warden Chicago Commons.

(Exclusive Service The Survey Press Bureau.)
 Industry furnishes the victims of war.
 Working capital and working people are
 flood for powder" They supply the
 ''sinews of war; in money and in flesh
 and blood. Brawn for battle and blood
 for carnage are drawn only from labor.
 The treasure and tax of toii are the fuel for the flame of war And yet the com- petition of commerce to get the materials for industry or to market it's goods has
 been the chief incentive ana occasion for the worlds warfare
 There is a poetic justice in the fact that
 industry is preparing the way for peace,
 and in the prospect that the new founda-
 tions for international peace will prove to
 be industrial. It is none the less, but
 even more significant, that the peoples
 peace is thus coming less through such
 conscious effort as those of peace so-
 cieties and their congresses, than as a
 by-product of blind economic forces and
 of world wide industrial tendencies. But because of such voluntary preparations
 for peace as ase being laid by education,
 ethics and religion, 1t will thus have all
 the frmer basis in the economic necessi-
 ties Of the new times. The ancients used
 to think the stars in their courses fought for or against them. We moderns
 are beginning to learn that it Is futile to fight against the course of events the
 order of things, the way of the world and
 our common human nature, which are
 making for peace.
 Industrial interdependence more than
 anything else, makes peace possible, and war more and more impossible. Man and man are made interdependent by the subdivision of labor, craft upon craft by the organization of industry. Class is deper dent upon class and nation upon na- tion all up and down the scale, and the
 wide world over, as never before in hu-
 man history. "No man liveth to himself" nor can he. There is no self-made, self dependent man or community or nation i any more, no matter how much more so ] any have been in the past. We have all l become so necessary to each other that We l cannot get along, or even exist very l long, without each other. This interde- i pendence grows with every invention, i with every labor r-saving device, with every l economy and efficiency in production and i distribution, with all the growth of civ i ilization. And as 1t grows. any inter- l ruption of these necessary interrelation- l
 intolerable, costs too much for any people
 to afford. War. therefore, becomes more l and more impossible, peace more and
 more necessary, as nation becomes more
 and more dependent upon nation not only
 for it's profits but for it's very living. ] A broader basis for association is be- 1 ing laid by modern industry which is sure
 to become the foundation for peace among
 the people Under the domestic system l of industry, kinship or the village fur
 nished the bond for almost all human | associations Under our modern industrial
 system combination far and wide across these lines becomes necessary to both
 capital and labor. Capital has been com l pelled to mass it's money and manage | ment in larger units. An individual finds
 1t less profitable and less possible to be l ''in business for himself" As partner
 ships supplant individuals, so corporations
 supersede partnerships and are super
 seded in turn by syndicates and larger l combinations of capital.
 I Labor is forced to combine by the
 same economic necessity. Collective bar | gaining is the only way by which it can | preserve it's freedom of contract in deal l ing with collected capital. As employers l and employees recognize their own and | each others necessity to combine they | naturally and inevitably deal Jointly. The | joint trade agreement necessarily in cludes provisions for consolidating and ar bitrating their differences Thus the very clements which have been creating inter 1 nal strife and provoking foreign wars are training themselves and each other in the ways of peace. In their separate and collective interests organized capi- tai and organized labor promise yet to be the chief impediments to war and the mainstay of the worlds peace. For within every nation this industrial or ganization on both sides is clearly evolv- | ing a larger liberty, at least for the I class; a rising standard of living for the 1 mass; a stronger defense against the l aggression of one class upon another and | a firmer basis and more authoritative
 power to make and maintain peaceful and
 permanent settlements of industrial diff | ferences More slowly yet surely there | are developing legal forms and sanctions 1 which not only make for justice and 1 peace between parties at variance but
 recognize and secure the final authority
 of the public as the third and greatest 1 party to every industrial interest and l difference.
 Thus by associating with larger and more diverse groups the people under l stand each other better, are less likely | to be divided by prejudice and passion | from those with whom they work and | deal, and are preparing to fulfill Mazzini' S l prophecy of "the association of the peo- ples."
 Modern industrialism tends to bring | men into interna tional relationships | Capital has necessarily become cosmo- | politan. It has largely expatriated it. | self. Commerce floats its ships and l cargoes under any flag that pays best However sinister may be the influence which commercial interests have had upon politics. there is a larger good evolving out of them. Organized