The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-29
WILL ADDRESS ASSOCIATION
OF COMMERCE MEMBERS
Mr.. S. A. Clark Will Speak on Indus
trial Conservation to Business and
Professional Men Dec. 3rd.

A new epoch in industrialism IN
which employer, employee and the pub
lie shall cooperate to prepare Ameri-
can industries for the trade perils of
the future will be described by S. A.
Clark, author and lecturer and special
representative of the National Con-
servation movement, who is to address
the Association of Commerce members
and friends on December 3rd at the
Elks' Home. The speaker will tell of
the work being done by the conserva-
tion movement to bring all the factors
of industry into harmonious accord.
Closer and more friendly relation
ship between wage earners and wage
payers, Mr.. Clark will explain, will go
great way toward promoting nation
al prosperity and toward solving the
vital problems of industry. The
speaker will emphasize the need for
industrial preparedness in order to
cope with the bitter and competitive
trade energies of foreign manufac-
turers to capture the markets of the
world and invade our own domestic
trade field at the termination of the
present war.
Mr.. Clark will emphasize the neces-
sity of working along human lines in
order to increase industrial efficiency,
using for his theme "American Indus
try and the War" Mr.. Clark will
draw from his broad and interesting
experiences number of incidents to
illustrate his points.
Having travelled extensively, Mr..
Clark, number of years ago decided
to round out his experience by taking
course in the hard school of labor so
that ne might study human nature
from the industrial viewpoint. Mr..
Clark was for number of years Ed
itor of one of the middle western dali
lies, and from that experience has be-
come familiar with the industrial
needs of the country. He is also an
author and lecturer of national repute.
With his deep sympathy for the la
boring man, balanced by an unpreiu-
diced regard for the rights of the en-
ployer. Mr.. Clark has made a keen
analysis of the labor situation as it ex-
lists today Through him and other
speakers Of his type, the National
Conservation movement is carrying
! out it's work of safeguarding indus
trial prosperity. Under the auspices
of boards of trade, chambers of COM
merce and similar bodies, it is hold
ing series of conservation meetings
throughout the east and middle-west.
According to the statement given
out today, the movement was started
some time ago by a group of pro-
gressive manufacturers who perceiv-
ed the country's need for industrial
preparedness. These men foresaw that
wage earners and wage payers must
forget whatever differences they had
in the past in order to work together
for their mutual advantage. Now they
are pronulgating the doctrine that
capital, labor and the public are three
real partners in industry and that the
partners should fight shoulder to
shoulder and endeavor to persuade the
workingman that his interests and
that of his employer are closely in
te1woven At the same time, they are
trying to convince the citizen that he
is unwise in his encouragement of
laws that merely hamper and dis
courage business.
The meeting will open at 8 o'clock
sharp on the date given.