The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24

blades of a pair of scissors each prac-
 ticaliy useless without the other-use-
 less at least. in so far as progress is
 concerned.
 if this is true-Land it is almost
 universally conceded to be true-what,
 then, are the flair, and .sdue'' shares sof capital and labor, of emp1oyer and Semp1oyee? To dissect the joint result
 of an industry and to indicate by prac-
 tical rules just what part is, due to cap
 ital and to labor. Is difficult task. and
 recalls Cairne's famous remark in this
 connection: "A master-tat1or supplies
 a sewing g-machine and cIoths journey
 men tailors go to work on these arti-
 cless and a. suit, of clothes is the result what proportion of the clothes is to
 be credited respectively to the ma- chine and to the workmen ?''s It is only necessary to propound such Ques-
 lions to perceive that they are almost
 insoluble.
 The solution of our problem is not
 made any easier by the attitudes of
 the two opposing factions in the in dustrial world. On the one hand, cap
 italists are uniting and the consolida- tion of forces is the steady growing movement in the employer class, On the other hand, labor unions are being organized, and the laborers' dream of the working men being united in one lconfederate body is rapidly becoming
 "a fact. The spirit between these rival E-organazation is that of distrust, which, perhaps is not sunwarrantable.
 The typical employer is no longer person. but a corporation. and alas. the typical employee Is merely an ab-i
 straction of a united labor quantity.
 This doing business by proxy is the curse of busine ess. Let one of the old
 est men i'm the New York State De- partment of labor tell it: Talk about freepecting personality! Many time r
 seen the foreman pick off the slower worknen like flies Hey you with the ' red hair or you with the gray cap, come down. you're no good-too slow, | Get you pay It's not a matter of | humanity cold business.'' It all | comes to this: Both sides are exploit CTS. At the same time, both sides profess the;r desire to be fair, and no | doubt believe they are It is human 1 nature to be fair, but it is also human nature to be self-centered. Therefore each side has an entirely different con- 1 ception of what Is fair. Neither dis- putant sees the whole problem, and neither sees 1t from the. other side 50 we have economic war fare, fought under the banners Of self-raghteous, i self-d defined ''fairness,'' without much regard for the rights Of each other, of the public All a,bstractions and l intricate theories must vanish before | the human nature. and nerves, pas sions. instincts. reason, hope, and | hunger must be considered as clements ! in the game.
 l The present condition of the labor ing classes stands far above that Of a Such being an admitted fact, why is there today a burning question in 1 vo1ved in the claims of labor? Why is
 1t that the labor question, like Ban duoss ghost. will not down Tn the main. because there has been an awak- good things obtained by the progress ! of the past, has created an appetite l for more. And yet on the whole this disconeut is to be welcomed as a sign of healthy growth for which the \ friends of progress must be grateful ! So long as great fortunes are a.c- I cumulated, the fact itself will be talk l en as a proof that labor is not receiv- ing it's due share of the results of pro- I duct1on- The extension of such views l to millions of persons lends import l ance to the necessity of Judicial and l profound study by economists of the 1 laws regulating wages. interest, and l managerial ability.
 l There is a common belief. that it Is l labor which has created the value in l the product of industry. That this be- l lief is not shared by the Iaboring class II l the Ford Automobile Company of De l trolt in sharing with it's employees the annual profits gained through the I union of it's capital with their labor. 1 This scheme might be considered a good example of the flair deaI'' l theory. Whether good will ultimately l accrue from it, remains to be seen. I In practice, it is difficult to put up a. 1 fair deal unless there are three quail l ties. and these are rarely found in the I same person. The qualities are sym I patIay Imagination, and above a1l a sense of Justice. Although the com | bination fs rare, the difficulty is not i'm
 sup peraIble, for many men competent l to be leaders through other qualities, possess one or the other of these three essentials And just as an illustrator, ! a. story-teller, and bookJbinder will combine, 50 ought it to be possible to have one man, Inspired by sympathy, I furnish his a1truistic dough; to have l another man. inspired by imagination, mould it and bake 1t into bread; to have a third man, inspired by justice, carve and divide that bread so that l each will receive his own slice. The combination of thrifty worker, high equivalent, fadr-minded and progress i sive employer, insures lowest costs and l makes possible a. more equitable shar-
 ing of the product of the labor of the
 worker and the capital of the employ 1 CT.
 Fundamentally. there is mo hostility
 between capital and labor. Neither
 can do without the other; the interest of the one Is the interest of the other. and on the prosperity of the one de- | bends the prosperity Of the other. ! Industrial peace will finally. come, I and the warning between the two fac I tions as represented fby capitalist and l laborer, will finally cease, when the ] David Harum gold rule; Do unto. the
 other fellow the way he'd like to do I unto you, an do 1t fust.' which today
 is the guiding policy of both employer l and employed, is replaced by the
 golden rule of equity: Whatsoever ye
 would that men should do unto you.
 do ye even so unto thena.''