The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-02-26

general principle is clear: No female
worker should remain in any occupa-
ton that is harmful to health or NOR
ais. Women should disappear as quick
" as possible from such tasks as con-
Quoting and guarding street cars, clean
ing locomotives and great number OF
other activities for which conditions OF
life and their physique render them
unfit. Another general principle is that
the proportion Of Women In industry
ought to be kept within the smallest
practical limits. II we have; an eff,
cient national employment service, II q
goodly number Of the returned soldiers
and sailors are placed on the land and
II wages and the demand for goods are
kept up to the level which is, easily at
tainable all female workers who are
displaced from tasks that they have
been performing only since the begin
ming of the war will be able. to find
suitable employments In other parts OF
the industrial field or in those domestic
occupations which sorely need their
presence. Those women who are en-
gagged at the same tasks as men should
receive equal pay for equal amounts
and qualities of work.
National War Labor Board.
.One Of the most beneficial govern
mental organizations of the war is the
National War Labor Board. Upon the
basis Of a few fundamental principles
unanimously adopted by the represent
atives of labor, capital and the public
1t has prevented innumerable strikes
and raised wages to DECENT levels IN
many different industries throughout
the country. Its main guiding princi-
ples have been family living wage
for all male adult laborers, recognition
Of the right of labor 20 organize ana 70
deal with employers through Its chosen
representatives and no coercion OF non
union laborers BY members OF the I'M
ion. The War Labor Board ought TO
be continued in existence by Congress
and endowed with all the power for eff
fectiye action that It can possess under
the Federal Constitution. The princi-
nles methods, machinery and results
Of this Institution constitute definite
and far-reaching gain for social JUS
tice. No part Of this advantage should
be lost or given up In time Of peace.
Housing for Workins Glasses.
.Housing projects for war workers
which have been completed or almost
completed by the Government OF the
United States have cost some forty
millionI dollars and are found In eleven
cities. While the Federal Government
cannot continue this work In time OF
peace, the example and precedent that
il has set and the experience and
knowledge that 1T has developed should
not be forthwith neglected and lost.
The great cities In which congestion
and other forms Of bad housing are
disgracefully apparent ought to take
IN and continue the work at least to
sucf, an extent az will remove the
worst features Of q special condition
that is a menace at once to Industrial
efficiency, civic health, good morals
and religion. s.
a New Spirit q Vital Need:
Society," said Pope Leo XIII, can
be healed In no other way than by a
return to Christian life and Christian
institutions The truth'of these words
is more widely perceived to-day than
when they were written, more than
twenty-seyen years agA Changes IN
our economic and political systems
will have only parttAi and feeble eff
cheney il they be not reinforced by the
Christian view of work and wealth
Neither the moderate reforms advo.
Gated in this paper nor any other pro-
gram Of betternent or rec obstruction
will prove reasonably effective with
out a reform in the spirit of both labor
and capital. The lab0rer must come te
realize that he owes his employer and
society an honest days. work in return
for d fair wage and that conditions
cannot be substantially improved unit
he roots out the desire to get maxi
mum OF return fol, a minimum OF serv
Ice. The capitalist must likewise get
new viewpoint, He needs to. learn the
long-forgotten truth that wealth il
stewardship, that profit-making is mo-
the basic justification Of business en-
terprise and that there are such things
as fair profits, fair interest and fail
prices. Above and before all. he mus
| cultivate and strengthen within MI
mind the truth which many OF his clas!
have begun 10 grasp for the first time
i during the present Yar-namely, tina
the laboreri is a human being, not mere
II an instrument Of production ant
that the laborer's right to 2 decen
livelihood is the first moral charg'
upon industry. the employer has
right to get a reasonable living out Q
his business, but he has no right to IN
terest ON his investment until his EN-
ployees have obtained at least Twins
wages. This is the human and Chris
tian IN contrast to the purely CONNER
cial and pagan ethics Of Industry"
The Germans say they are going tc
float a big loan in this country. but
lthey have carelessly omitted to show
THAT their bonds will be any better
THAN their treaties.
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