The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-14

spare hours for the education or the massess will avail little unless an lnl- proved system of education, free oI the bias and privileges of wealth. lS devised and perfected. To arrange for the study of this problem sllou be one of the first duties, II not tn0 first duty, of the leaders ot the He" Labor Party.
 Individual Effort.
 Again. there is another aspect to the provision of a universal mlnlliIuii. wage, of constant employment, ana oI insurance against unemployilleh'' These things are right; they must come. But the evils which may ac- company them ought at the same tlIle to be faced and mastered. It mas ai- ways been the fear of the unconprolil- ising individuals that such popular blessings will bring in their tram weakening of the, incentive to Work' and of the desire of the indlVldual to rise by the exploitation of his 1ul energy. There can be no doubt III the mind of any unprejudiced person that this fear is a real fear. of a real FISK. The duty of the leaders of the Lapor [ Party is to explain to the world now they mean to obviate this risk, end, II they do not believe in the risk, to eX- plain to the world why they do not believe in it.
 / The Labor manifesto agrees that productivity must be increased after the war, and it points to improved or ganization as the means of increasing productivity. But individual effort Will after all have to play the principal part in the increase of productivity and if pre-war conditions in work shops are to be wholly restored, as the Labor Party demands, it is notorious that individual effort will be deliver ately kept down. These contradic- tions are capable of being set right, but they must be set right. And here the education difficulty creep in agaln l For from the purely economic point of view the prime necessity will be to educate the average working man to the level of understanding that it will | pay him to exploit the whole of his energy, and that it will not pay him to waste his energy in the device o1 "caIling canny.' It is certain that un- less curative measures of an educa- tional nature are taken, the deliberate limitation of output will persist lone after it's historical justification and excuse have been removed.
 | PerilS of Bureaucracy.
 One more point. Nearly all the main projects of the Labor Party in. Volve one inevitable consequence whicf admittedly has grave disadvantages They cannot be executed without 2 huge increase of bureaucratic official dom. The way has provided us witf a first-rate object-lesson about the disadvantages of bureaucratic official dom. Many of us spend an apprecia' ble portion of our time in cursing bureaucratic officialdom: The states manship which has produced the lat est and completest manifesto of the Labor Party cannot be blind to the immense possibility of evil in a bu reaucratic officialdom such as it look! forward to. It doubtless has remedie! to propose. These remedies should b. states and the whole matter thrashet out in public. Perhaps the remedie for this and other perils have beer somewhere stated, for I ought to sa, that some of the chief subjects of thu manifesto are treated in specia pamphlets and books; but real popu larization is required-an active anC continual propaganda.
 It would not be profitable for m to pursue further the line of though which I have faintly sketched. Tn mere indication of it is sufficient.
 will only say in conclusion that tn responsibilities of the constructiv leaders of the Labor Party are all tn greater for the reason that they hav than a Labor program. It is na tional program, carrying with it al produced a program which is nor improvement in the welfare of at leas four-fifths of the entire population
 (By The International News Bureau Inc, Boston, Mass.)