The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-08
HUMAN FACTOR
IMPORTANT ONE
Without 1t Nations Indus
try Cannot Prosper,
He Declares

SPOKESMAN LOT tne Nofktrs, ndu IOlu IN
3 nominee that those present represente
100 900 workingmen in Detroit, whose EN-
. ployers were trying 10 make life wort
i living for their employees, giving fire
e medical treatment to $4,000 men, meal
at cost TO one thousand men daily anC
legal advice TO all without charge. Ii
concluding Mr.. Eaton said that the rep
resentatives present desired TO sugges'
to the nominee the sdvisability of con
sidering the establishment Of a nationa
: welfare bureau, believing the movement
: was so strong that the bureau would
be justified Mr.. Hughes replied by de
claring that there was nothing in which
he took greater interest than welfare
work.
Detroit" he said, "takes the lead in
many things, but there is nothing in
which its advance is more promising than
in the welfare work you have Just de-
scribed. There is nothing in which per
sonally | take deeper interest The
United States was not founded for pro
duction; it was founded TO give equal
opportunity, to the true ideal OF life
and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Production is at the base, because il is
only through what is produced that we
can develop the national means and in
strumentalities of progress 1t is an aw-
full mistake to think OF the men through
uats,v,t.F yxrnI,,atfaya - taSathln a.
mere economic units. They are human
beings. We are all workingmen in this
country ] think | work as hard as any
man in it, and | have been working
ever since boy.
I'VE are in different spheres of activi-
| ty, but we ought to have sense of CO.
operation, so that every man takes pride
| in what he is doing and is doing it to
the best of his ability, because he is
working alongside of every other man
for the good of the country, in which
each claims for himself an equal state.
I'm your welfare work you are doing
not only what is worth while here, but
you are setting great example. You
are butressing democracy. The human
factor is after all the important factor
You may develop your physical plants,
your physical instrumentalities, distri
button and everything that goes to make
up the material side Of prosperity, but
you are absolutely hopeless without the
human factor; and in America, the land
OF free men, the man who is at work
for a living must feel that the country
is doing the right thing by him. He Is
entitled to safety in his work, to have |
every precaution taken against every |
sort of accident that can be prevented
mo man can work in any position |
where his life. his limbs or his health |
are subject to any unnecessary risk. A |
man is man. He is not, as | said at |
the beginning. mere economic unit.
We have got to have production, and all
we can get for it, and after this war IL
over, we have got TO look out that we
are able to maintain ourselves in com
petition with other nations, but you can
not permanently in democracy have sue
cessful production with disconnected
Therefore / am delighted with every
means that is taken in this intelligent
and very practicable way to provide for
the betterment of human living, to ele
yate the standards OF life, to provide
means for wholesale recreation, to pre-
vent men from being imposed upon so
that every one in the community who
works with his hands can go contented-
ly and happily to work without any no
ton that he is not being treated as a
being and being encouraged,
according to his talents, to be an efficient !
and successful workingman. L
I'VE are not materialists in this coun- ,
try, we are all idealists, but the one {
thing that appeals to the workingman q
IS the idea that he is equal TO some job, {
N first class way. That is what makes {
him proud; that is what makes him sat !
SIZED; and when you consider our great
Industrial manufactures and the enor 7
nous extension OF our industrial mar r
sets-snd we hope it will extend far |
md far more widely-because it is only a
through production, as | said before, that G
We can get the means of progress, the
rope that in all this there will be right |
through it the spirit of human brother S
lood, of fellowship and of cooperation, h
o that managers and workingmen will b
eel that they are engaged in a common
ause. And we will get through with il
MS plu cltilt DtNNttu ii
al. Democracy cannot stand it. We il
re fellow-citizens. That is what | stand a
or, and therefore, because you enrich t,
ur citizenship, because you build perma c.
ent the foundations of our society, | P
rect you and | wish you the best sue
ess in your work"
Mr.. Hughes address followed a brief
peeoh by J. NJ. Eaton, spokesman for
he manufacturers, who outlined the well T
are measures for employees taken by Lei
ldustrisl concerns here and suggested a
bat the nominee endorse a movement r.
'oking to the formation of a national r
'elfare association of manufacturers.
Hughes said be regarded the sugges-
on very favorably.
A few minutes later Mr.. Hughes ad-
ressed q group of suTragists with his OF
ife standing beside him. co
Mr.. Hughes reiterated in his address
} the sufragists his declaration in New lin
ork that the sufrsgist question should to
, settled speedily by giving the vote
women al over the country. He add IA
that be had formed this opinion long 70