The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-20
BUSINESS MUST
 GIVE UP "BIC
 STICK"ATTITUOE
Labor Must Be Given Larger Share In Profits, Says
 Century"

New York, March 20.---CSpecial Cor responrdence.) )---''U ntnteuigent resist ance today spells revolution; creative leadership spells progress" that is the opinion of MT. Glenn Frank. the SO cioIogist and author who contributes
 to the April Century a study of the new spirit in business, called ''Anony--.
 nous Liberalism" Relations between 1 labor and capital must be adjusted
 so as to grant labor a larger share an i the profits and in the management of i industry, purely as 6 matter of good business. According to Mir. Frank, '1f 1 a, stupid conservatism should attempt l to revert to 'big-stick' methods in dealing with labor difficulties, one
 would, need either courage or bhnd-
 ness to contemplate the future with
 an easy mind"
 1 Says Mir Frank, ''ca1ling in the po- lice, nubilfzing the I1liHtias employ ing detectives aIresting labor leaders, blocking discussion, and forcing pas
 siols underground are not only un- ! democratic methods; they are unin, tel1tgent methods; they are played out. The business executive who uses them may think he is protecting his interests, but his fiT1ng-squad type of
 mind does not SC far: in using such
 
 the hands of the revolutionary. Con structfve conservatism. by refusing to employ these methods, forces the rad tcal leader to present q satisfactory program to his followers; for an aver age group of Americans of whatever class can be held together by one of two methods, common action against e common antagonist who faunts his
 antagonism in their faces, or com
 1rV1 that captures their ina gination and
 appeals to their sense of justice. Au-
 tocratic indifereuces to the aspira.-
 tions that are moving the masses of
 a nation has spelled bankruptcy of
 authority for governments Through
 out history; alItocrattc attempts tr3 suppress such aspirations have spelled
 revolution throughout history.
 1 Business men realize with Q defi- niteness that ts relatively recent that iCapitaI loses even when 1t wins in a ; fight with labor, simply because bus mess cannot be permanently profita- bIe unless it's relations with labor are
 cordial, especially with the nuIner-
 teal strength of labor becoming poIit- , tca1ly a.TticuIate,---and it's relations = with labor cannot be consistently cor dial as long as labor unrest is dealt
 with on the basis of a, tournament : rather than a parliament. A system ? of relations between employer and enploye that usually breaks down : when the issue is of fundamental i'm | portance and forces both parties to 2 fight their way toward @ decision is l clearly inadequate for the sort of
 times we are coming into; it is a | costly system, as all expedients are 3 costly; it generates and leaves behind = too many sulIen antagonisns that may :. be played upon by destructive radi- g ca.lisrn.
 = There are 20 outstanding leaders ot Q American business and industry who have always been cIassed as conserv- e ative men concerned primarily witt f the financial problems of industry; il q these 20 men should pool their brain :, power in a study of the labor prob o lems with the same sustained thought
 they have given to financial problems , if they should counsel with the stu . dents of labor as they have coun.
 se1led with the students of chemical l' electrical and other problems tha:
 touch their business interests, and i they should take the initiative 1T l' making a, sincere and exhaustive u study of the whole area lying betwee1 u the extreme forms of private capital e ism and the extreme forms of Statt Il Socialism in order to find out whethe: Il or not there is a middle ground of in n dusuia1 e1f-governInent on whicI Il both labor and capital can stand in
 co-operation that will minister to tn e legitimate aims of both, they would o with dra1natic suddenness. invent 10 new order of industry The Arneri II can public is waiting for a bushes 1- sta.teEnanship that will attack th. Il governmental problem in dndustryl''