Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-02
HUMAN SOCIETY
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conventional ideas; they are going to
question old authority.
| Our present-day inefficiencv in
business is largely due to a shift in
our business motive. We have been
doing business for private profit. We
are suddenly confronted with the ne
cessity of doing business for service
to humanity. The atmosphere has not
cleared. All at once we are assailing
the very profiteers whom we had been
taught to revere as the pillars of
society We have got to unlearn ali
the old talk about special reward for
special risk and learn that our ma
tional insurance systems during this
war have abolished that argument for
profits.
What Are We Going To Do?
Business henceforth will be better
and will render better service because
OF the new altruism which replaces the
old greed"
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood of the
British army, formerly a member of
the House of Commons and more re-
Gently fighter in the Gallipoli cam
paIgn against the Turks. said that
The only real issue is: What is labor
going to do after the war? In Eng
land, labor is answering that ques-
ton now, by assuming more and more
power IN every social relation, every
political relation, and by forgetting
the old Difference shown by the Brit
lsh worker to those in the privileged
classes.
Lloyd George has been criticised"
ne said, because he has of late been
trying to reach an agreement with
British labor. Yet his action is only
symptomatic of the whole condition.
Labor is going to have more and more
power. Our privileged people, who
have considered it their function to
act as a great sponge, soaking up all
of the surplus product of the work
ers, are now finding that the sponge
is being, squeezed. 1t is going to be
squeezed very dry indeed, and it never
again will be swelled with private
profits"
Farmers Stand With Labor.
John Baer, the Nonpartisan League
congressman, testified that the farm
ers We're going to stand with organ
lied labor for the fixing of prices "all
down the line, from food to cotton
and steel and Clothes" and that the
organized farmers would be the first
to fight to maintain this price-regula-
ton, and to win public ownership of
all public utilities, after the war.
In short, the whole meeting indi-
Gated that Charles NJ Schwab spoke
for great deal of American public
opinion when he said in New York
City that the example of Russian
maximilism is spreading thruout the
world, and that the workers are going
to rule human affairs, industrially and
politically, after this war.
Stirs Up a Lot of Talk.
Secretary Wilson's special commits
sion, by persuading President Wilson
to urge new trial for Tom Mooney,
victim of the "frame-up" trial in the
San Francisco bomb case, has stirred
up no end of talk in the capital. All
the reactionaries wish that the case
could have been quietly disposed of,
long ago, because it has been made
the text of too many criticisms of the
anti-labor preiudices of courts and
prosecutors. Now that the President
has called the attention of the Cali
fornia authorities to the SERIOUS dis
quietude" caused in this country and
in Russia and in other parts of the
world by the apparent ease with which
labor agitator could be put to death
at the demand of fanatical capitalists
in the United States, there may be an
end of these scandals.
Can't Stop EN- Thinking.
1t is likely that the outburst of
criticism of the war management. in
Congress, will result in the cleaning
up of the press-gag situation. Many
of the Presidents friends are begging
him to compel the postmaster general
to quit suppressing the class of papers
read by the workers, since the reac-
tionary press is never disturbed when
it denounces the administration acts.
A 81,
department of justice give up the no
tion that it can root out any given
sort of political or economic thinking
Collect Accident Data
Arthur Holder, in the Machinsts'
journal, suggests that industrial
safety would be very much advanced
if moving picture producers were to
encourage safety ideas, instead of al
ways making recklessness and danger
appear heroic. Holder used to be
legislative agent for the A. F. of L..
and now is a member of the federal
vocational education board. He asks
everyone to tell Congress to collect
national accident data, so that the full
loss from industrial accidents can be
known, and met by general remedies.
The Packers Agreement.
Just after the packers combine had
been shown up as using slush funds
to prevent an investigation of their
business and the possible prosecution
of the Swifts and Armours on crimi-
nal charges, the labor department an
nounces settlement between the
packers and their 100000 employees.
It's a compromise, and probably will
not last long. There is no recognition
of the union during the war. Adjust
ment of wages and hours is to be left