New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-29
Industry Must Organize.

INDUSTRY Must OfBdIiZc.
Mr.. Vanderlip spoke for universal
industrial as well as mill
tary. Organized industry he held nee
essary 20 our present standard of liv-
ing. Whatever controversies there may
be about wages or other divisions of
the product, there ought to be agree
ment upon honest, sincere effort to in
crease all production for the common
good Continuing, he said:
II is the duty OF every one OF us 10 do
what he can 20 induce wage earners to
examine their relations 10 the industrial
system as a whole and 10 be loyal 20 the
industrial system as a whole. rather than
TO any narrow and mistaken opinion OF
class interest.
You cannot make food coal. clothing.
housing, transportation. or even automo-
biles, dear with benefit 10 any class. and
least Of all TO the wage earning class.
would appeal. however. with equal energy
70 the sense of loyalty and responsibility
Of the employer. BY virtue OF his position
he has a larger outlook than the wage
Garner at the bench. a more intimate con-
tact with affairs, and his responsibility IS
correspondingly greater. He ought 10 be
20 consistently loyal 10 that responsibility
that his example will spread the doctrine.
! would urge nothing impracticable or
revolutionary. but simply that policy OF
fair play which. when established in all
relations, will rid business life OF suspicion
and reproach.
If everybody in the United States could
be kept in health and completely employed
all the year round and made skilful in
some occupation the volume OF business
and the rise of wages ard profits would
outstrip the records Of this war boom, and
It would be permanent business.
Referring TO the war in Europe, Mr..
Vanderlip said that society, in its inter
national organization and relations, has
broken down. The most highly civilized
nations of the world-those most ad-
vanced in learning, most enlightened in
most efficient and practical in
afairs-are turned aside from all the
achievements which signify progress
and are graphing with each other in a
veritable death struggle. If ever a peo-
pie should pause, he said, and take
stock; if ever they should look abroad,
should comprehend their national dan
gers in the light of the terrible reai-
ties now being enacted before their eyes
in other nations, it is now and We are
that people.
British Worker Profits.
The speaker then made interesting
reference TO the wars stimulating eff
feet on the human productivity of the
Industry ha, been lifted out OF the ruts
OF custom and rule, initiative has had free
play, machinery has given new powers 10
the workers and organization has been
modernized. with results that have been
revelation. The war wages cannot be paid
upon commercial work after the war II
production falls back TO the old methods.
but they can be paid il production is main
tanned by the new methods There il anx-
iety about the future. but the best observ-
ers do not believe the British workman.
now that the demonstration has been made.
will go back to the old limitations and the
old pay. They believe wages will be bigger
and costs lower than before the war, and
that the difference In the cost OF produc-
ton may Offset tho interest on the war
debt The cost OF living is high there now.
owing in part to the high freights on all
importations. but after the war is over
these costs will decline rapidly. and if
wages can be kept at the present level the
condition Of the wage earning class will be
better than before.
As 70 the United States. his warning
was that we should not be so intent
upon dividing the proceeds of present
prosperity as to fail to safeguard its
permanence. The opportunity here,
said Mr.. Vanderlip, is such as no coun-
try ever had to lay the sure founda-
tions Of great future, but We must
not lose our heads. We must work for
our common interests, employer and
wage Garner striving together, and the
government backing them up, as it
can.
Farm Loan Act Criticised.
That the Federal farm loan act con-
tains great possibilities for evil was the
statement made by James X. Lynch,
president Of the association.
"When the government" he said,
places its credit behind one class of
the community. no matter how impor-
tant the class may be, it is setting a
precedent which Is sure to be followed
by demands for assistance from other
classes equally worthy. In part the
end sought is sociological, and is, in
fact. an effort to stem the drift Of pop
ulation to the cities. Lower rates of
interest and greater facilities for get
ting into debt will not Of themselves
serve to accomplish this result. The
man Who have the uost Intimate ~