Putnam patriot., 1916-10-13
URGES COOPERATION Employer and EmplOye as Partners in Industry Will Solve Industrial Problem James o. Pagan Gives Interesting Ad. dress under Auspices of Putnam
 Chamber of Commerce

James 0. Pagan, a railroad signal.
 man, an author and an optimistic
 thinker on social and industrial prob-
 lems, addressed a small audience in Odd Fellows hall, Thursday evening. The meeting was under the auspices of the Putnam Chamber lof Commerce. The speaker deserved large audience but the many other entertainments undoubtedly kept many away.
 Picturing industrial relations as "a great, big human problem" and pun ctuating his words with stories which well illustrated his points, he told of the false impression of existing rela. tions between employer and employe as contained in newspapers, cartoons and motion pictures, and as told from the pulpits. He blamed these condi. tions for harming the cause of the wage-earner and said in part
 Industry needs protection against this kind fspirit and against this kind of work and the wage earner in loyalty to his job and himself should insist upon a better understanding. Indus. try needs protection from restrictive and destructive legislation, from un- necessary interference, from full crew bills and "presidential flats ,
 For great many years 1 have been trying to figure out the relationship between my job and my society and I have come to the conclusion that the paramount interests of social order and social well-being demand that the problem of industry, economic and otherwise, be thought out from the hu- man and personal points of view. Years ago I learned this fundamental lesson on the railroads. In the sos and sos there was nothing so cheap in America as the life of a railroad man, and between us, the life of passenger in those days was not any too precious. Il is good thing for the public con. science perhaps that nobody bothered about records or statistics. All the public cared for was the expansion and business interests until slaughter brought people to their senses.
 But it took more than economics, i wages, steel coaches or safety sppli- l ances to put slop to collisions. Be- 1. Heve me, it was the human side of in. | dustry, the human side of iailroad life ! that came to the rescue. It Is the hu- man side, the appeal to common sense, | common interests and a common hu- i manity, that must now save industry in America from the fate of social and i political Europe.
 It seems to me the present genera. ton is sadly lacking in what you may call industrial appreciation. Industry in America to-day is a monument to the human heart as well as to the hu- man brain.
 Today you have a spectacle of all that is beautiful, talented, scientific and to quite an extent, economically successful, crumbling to dust in the maw of hateful political relationships. To head of catastrophes of this nature in America, industry must be human ized on the partnership principle along cooperative lines. To bring about this state of affairs we must all start with 8 generous philosophy of life and this philosophy should be the first educa- tional contribution in any movement that has for its object the welfare ot the American worker and the conser- vation of American industry.