Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-09-10
EMPLOYERS SAFETY DAY.


Errors of omission are apt to those Of com
mission We of the opinion that this holds
corning The Reviews editorial "Iabor's Safety Day"
published in the Sunday issue Attention is called to
it by Mr. A. Rdgeway to whom thanks are due from all
those interested in the subject and their number is
legion. Mr.. Ridgeway writes:
Editor The Review read with much pleasure your
editorial Labor Day and congratulate you on the
common sense and justice to all in your of
the subject.
However think the plea for the exercise of caution
against unreasonable extremes in demands on the
part Of labor leaders in the closing paragraph Of the
article might with proprety have included plea
for the employers also avoid extremes in what they
ask of those in their employ.
Common sense and common justice on the part Of
both employer and employed are the surest known pre-.
yentives Of labor troubles.
"The common sense and common honesty on the part
of the workman, that viii cause him to try to do an
honest days work for reasonable days pay are surely
enemies to discord and strife. Also an employer who is
willing accord workman as reasonable treatment
Twentieth Century civilization compes that he give
to his horse the same care in the selection of
shift bosses and foremen that he would use in providing
drivers for his horses is not likely to be bothered with
loss of sleep fears Of labor troubles with the men in
his employ"
The obligation Of the employer to the employed is we
conceive whit less than the employed to the employer
Both have their rights in equal measure and neither
need approach other with hands extended in suppl
cation Common honesty" put into actual practice by
both employer and employed will make an industrial
heaven Of the industrial world in which ~discord and
strife frequently prevail but in ever essenng de
The desired ends are impossible of attainment if
either employer employed fail in the exercise OF
common honesty. Greater responsibilities than ever
before upon the employer Of to-day and for that
reason he must even greater caution against "un.
reasonable extremes" than the employed It would be
idle TO deny that upon a tme-and not so many
years ago eher-the industrial world was ruled as q
desDousm. But the despouc employer no longer is toll
Grated either by the employed or by public opinion In
accordance with evolution he has learned that
greater progress be made greater business success
attained through the application Of common honesty
in dealing with the employed
The burdens Of administration however make it nee
essag for the industrial leader delegate his author
icy to ieutenans who doubtless do not always hew &c
the mark Of common dealings sincerely sought by
their chief little authority a dangerous thing tC
those unused it, But the "rawhider" cannot hop,
TO endorse these days. The lieutenant who falls shor
fulfilling those ideals Of common honesty and com
mon justice demanded by his chief will eventually b,
cast out He has chance of becoming captain Of in
dustry. He foul OF the employed whom for a tim,
he has oppressed but who stand impregnabe bar
against his advancement The sooner he learns tina
the employed the sole arbiters of his destiny th
quicker win come his emancipation.
We believe that greater reforms have been worke,
among captains Of industry class than among abo
leaders as class, however. Why? Because reform
were applied to captains Of industry first They hav
been humbled, and with humility has come enlighter
ment Labor leaders, unchastened as yet by the fir
through which industrial leaders have passed contnu
their arrogance. We believe that common honesty
regarded highly virtue among leaders of il
dustry than among labor leaders This does hol
true most emphaucaly, regards the rank and fle
labor From that the force which put fl
dustrial despotsm fight From that sourc
win eventually sentence Of expulsion for cale
tabor leaders Theirs now tight for selfpreserv
ton for entirely selfish reasons and their end will com
when the employed awake to the fact that they ben
betrayed Industrial leaders formerly had as their o
ganization the trust That has been done away wit
Labor leaders now have an organization Of their ow