The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-27

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tion-how to 1T machine to man, and
net man to machine. II is only too
true that much Of your industrialism
s merely species OF white slavery
Work without joy in the working is
lavcry. and modern labor is joyloss.
This is not so mucn due 20 the nature
Ct the work as to The kind OF living
that inlustrialism has deve oped in
the workers. Indeed, It has hardly
thought about labor outside the shop
at ell and It is precisely this tought
which Is now coming rpperCcst in
the mind OF society. Labor IS re-
garded and regards itself as purely
a commodity. The farmer. the ply
sioian, the teacher, the lawyer, whose
responsibilities and hours of labor
are un United do their work for its
own sake They work as does the
worker in his garden. They have
not acquired the commodity idea:
their labor has not been dehumaniz-
ed.
How shall we humauize industry?
How restore to the worker his one
time ardcr for his work? How revive
his individuality? How lead him to
nave an interest IN what he prcduc-
cs? Ask Of the gardens Of East \ur-
ora.
II modern industrial labor takes no
Joy in its work, It Is not entirely the
fault Of the worker, II is not that
he hates work as work, but he dis
likes the conditions under which he
works, and he doesn't know how to
improve them. Industrialism must
snow him or go under II must give
him n higher incentive than either a
minimum or maximum wage. II
must lead him back to life.
Labor is not really in rebellion
against capital. II knows that II
could not administer capital on any
large scale but it knows also that
capitalism is giving no adequate re-
wards In terms Of life.
What better incentive than wages
and good factory conditions can in
dustrialism offer? Justice, kindness,
service, charity-these are stronger
! in the hearts of capitalists than la
Dor realizes, but they are not yet
strong I'm the heart OF capital Short
er hours and higher wages still leave
labor discontinued, perhaps even
more so-for without garden the la
borer has too large an untitled leis-
ure open to the devil and all mis-
work.
The two most fundamental incen-
tives animating the normal man aft
er the fires of youth cool down are
the love of private ownegship and the
love OF a home. Satisfy these in
stincts and contentment is not far
off. And they are not so hard to
satisfy. The gardens of East Aur-
ora point the way.
We near much about back to the
farm. Such a movement has It's OBJ
vious limitations. but II only a few
can 60 back to the farm, many can
go back to the back yards. Manutac-
turers rush to the city, because they
can there find labor; and labor soea
there to find work, with the result
that we have congestion, with its
gruesome and utterly unnecessary
evils, and a constantly growing pro.
letarist that 10 both hopeless and mp
athletic and that knows no liberty
save to work or to starve or to so to
the devil.
Why should not all large industries
migrate to the open country and
there study labor as a purely human
! problem; its housing, its hygiene, US
education. its pleasures, its home life
its social life, as factors not only q
industrial efficiency but Of life and
living?
We are just beginning to realize
, that the world wide exodus Of popu
lation from rural to urban, with is
|, disastrous consequences to our pays
: ical and moral well being, Is both ;
product and problem Of industrial
, ism 1t Is a business. not human
itarian, question, and business mus
=. so'Ve it. Labor living from hand 4
mouth, dependent almost entirely e.,
!, the enterprise and win Of the en-
= poyer and subject to all the yicis
STUDIES End uncertainties Of trade, j
, an easy victim Of it's own doldsion
g and those Of demagogues
i. The industrial problem IT can no
too often be said, is how to free Ia
Dor, how to humanize g. how 70 suiI
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