The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-21
efficiency 10 concerned. There can only be mutually
Of interest all along tho line in industry.

E111c1eucy,
q value. The labor unions have mistakenly laid tho
emphasis on labor only They have adopted axiom
attic the declaration that the world owes every man
living 1t does provided man is willing to do his
part efficiently in producing the common living II he
this entitled share in the common living
according his efficiency This however 10 what the
unions grant All laborers. according to tho
principle that work in trades should
share tho OF each craft equally Not only that
but 1t forces the efficient to work according
to the quality and efficiency set by the least ef
cient Piece scales being fought moro and
more by the unions The feeling rife that the
who does than the average amount OF work under
piece rate schedule is robbng some fellow worker OF
job. Piece work scales, however. were development
OF special privilege competition and such have proved
too unfair and unsatisfactory as method OF de-
termning mans share to the products OF industry.
President Gompers, O American Federation OF
Labor however, refuses to differenate between piece
work scales and standardized and the bonus sys
TEN. He seems determined to bulge not inch from
the unwritten law of labor that the amount Of
labor the wages therefor should be equal He il
for continuing the premium nefciency which is tho
in unonzed factories that are allowed a minimum
wage scale that is in reality the maximum that
ly be paid union labor.
Aside the great work Of protecting laborers in
their scalesso under special privilege
competition and monopoly-the unions performing
functions that rtghfully belong to government Take
the Typographical union as example OF this When
printer dies, his family or estate receives death
benefit OF SIS In 1912 this to be raised $3.50 Any
printer who has worked twenty at the trade and
has a union during that time. provided he 10
fifty years old. receives old age pension of four
dollars week. In Colorado hospital is maintained by
the union tubercular union printers and they
taken Of there free charge provided they
ncurabes. The expense all this is by the
bers OF the union In the weekly they pay
into the treasury Of the union from their wages.
In principle these things splendid. but they
should not be the exclusive benefits OF members of
ions. These things through government should be tho
right all citizens the government
in the Of people claiming be Christians and,
SUCH humaney minded should have compulsory
forms of insurance whereby OF the evils
to this age could be eliminated The Typographical
union is pointing the
Government should have these forms OF insurance
compulsory to everyone: burial and life insurance,
health, accident. unemployment, motherhood old
age insurance. In addition to these there should
government sanatorums the treatment and regua-
ton of such diseases tuberculosis, etc.
1t will be noticed this plan from the princi.
pie Of industrial insurance has been worked
foreign countries. 1t provides that with
income from any shall be compelled by to
take advantage of these various forms
Insurance. This is done because efficiency COM
petition there be difference between workers.
There is but class, the efficient workers. whether
the machine a managerial capacity. All
the people should be assessed regularly according
the size of their incomes the this
ance The benefits paid out by insurance
should according to the incomes OF the recipients
under which they have been assessed Dead levelisn
should by all means be avoided.
Lest anyone will high his hands at this sug-
gestion for government insurance excaim a
cost. It will be we'll to state that exists though
IN very crude and neffcient-hence e1pensive-forn.
Charity covers multitude Of expensive
we'll as SINS poverty-stricken man dies and is
buried at public in the potter's field. His
widow struggles along best she and often proha-
bly, is the recipient Of financial assistance tho
county fund.- She supports her children long
she best she Their education stops an
early age and they become child laborers Between
lack of education and the duling and soudesroying
effects OF hard labor children OF tender years.
habits developed and child it will be said for
the sake Of argument becomes a criminal He is de-
tected in criminal act by policeman who is main
tanned public expense, tried before that
supported by public taxation, and sentenced term
in the penitentiary where he will be q public charge
for a number of years.
Another child, a girl. grows up same environ
and For the sake a decent family in
they live in southern cotton factory
New England textile manufacturing center. the wife,
well the husband, will have to work Inevitably
little baby along. necessitating a protracted
period from work in the factory part
er, we'll as affecting the family income by the
pense always incident to birth II this happens,
likely not, during OF the sofrequent shutdowns
of the factory and therefore, when the husband
work. aid obtained from the money loanng
from public private charity II the shutdown is
of long duration such family has q very
time OF it. The husband, in all probability.
other work and being in poorly nourshed condition.
becomes ILL., Again recourse must be had to public
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