New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Higher Wages Here to Stay

Higher Wages Here to Stay
Sir Arthur Stanley stated on March 20:
"Tbo fact has to be faced that higher wages
are here to stay. 1t is all to the au's"'ase
of employers and of the country that "ha'
ere termed high wages shall continue after
the war"
Sir Edward Carson on May "a, 1917, said:
Tabor never again will be satisfied, nor
ought it to be satisfied, to be IN the condluoh
that it was before the war
Dean Weldon wrote in "The Times OF
June II, 1917:
"If il were necessary to express in single
rhrase the prevailing sentiment OF the opera
tives among whom l live, so far as | kno"
them. | should say it is the passion tor
equality
I A Rellamv. of the National Union of Rail-
waymen, has said:
/ "Whether naturalization or control were
| decided upon, it ought to be made unmistaKs-
( blv clear that neither system would be accept
able to railway men unless they were given
share in management
The Triple Industrial Alliance is composed
Of the Miners Federation, 10000; the Ma
tional Union of Railwaymen, $4,000, ana
the Transport Workers Federation, 2oO,OOO'
When Robert Smile, of the Miners, spoke
recently at a conference, he spoke with the
voice of ,286,0OO workers. He said
"The Triple Alliance has, for the period OF
the war. acted only on the defensive, but
there would come a time when they would
formulate proposals for aggressive action.
The mere threat ought to be sufficient to bring
about their well thought out democratic de-
mands."
In referring 10 workers control Of indus
try, Graham Wallas has said:
"In the highly organized great industries
the rights of control should be divided
some of them assigned TO the State, some OF
them to the persons engaged in the industry,
others to those who contribute the capital
Concentrated directive power has ceased.
Distribution of power is a fact What is the
percentage of control is the real question"
Appreciation Of Revolution
Thomas Case writes from Corpus Christi
College, oxford, on June II, 1917, to 1.-THE
Times" He sees three serious changes in the
nation. % 1t has drifted from mixed gov
eminent of kings, lords and commons into
an absolute democracy, or unlimited govern
ment by the many, for the many, at the ex-
pense of the few (2) The traditional con-
stitution was based on the rights of property
and contract, but "the nation has become too
lenient to the use of might" as in the strikes
of trade unionists (3) 1.-THE nation has
passed into a certain appreciation of revolu
ton"
He points out that under the spread of de-
mocracy "the present lawful owners and
masters would lose in capital in income and
in the management of property and in con-
sequence as servants rose masters would sink
in wealth, social status and political power,
until ownership and mastership would be-
come little more than names. This social
and political revolution would enlarge the
tyranny of the many over the few and en-
rich manual laboIers. But would it be for
the permanent good of the nation?"
One asks which nation? For as the Ham
monds have shown in "The Town Labourer,"
the industrial revolution created two nations
in England-one of the privileged class and
one of the dispossessed. And to-day men
and women refuse to believe that England
must always remain two nations"
That the present lawful owners and mas
ters" are still more than names" is illus
trated By advertisements in the same news