Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-05-31

spirit and method of organization
which must be effected are nor ia no
orousit by legislation so much us by
'he common counsel and voluntary
cooperation of capitalist. manager and
workman. Legislation can go only n
very lttle way in commanding what
snail be done. The organization of IN
oustry is a matter of corporate md
,i'u.'ioual initiative and of practical
BUSINESS arrangement. Those who re-
any uesire new relationship between
capital and labor can readily find
way TO bring it about; and perhaps
ieuefal legislation can help more than
state legislation could.
industrial Demonstration.
Ihe object of all reform in this es-
sehtlal matter must be the genuine
ueinocratization of industry. based up
vi iuli recognition of the right of
,hose VINO work, in whatever rank, to
participate in some organic way In
every decision which directly affects
'heir welfare or tn. part they are TO
play IN industry. Some positive legis-
iatlon is practicable The congress
mas already shown the way to one re.
form which should be worldwide, by
establishing the eight-hour day as the
standard day in every field of labor
over which it can exercise control. II
mas sought to find the way to prevent
enid labor and will, l hope and be-
lleVe, presently find it, 1t has served
the whole country by leading the way
In developing the means of preserving
and safeguarding life and health in
dangerous industries. 1t can now help
III the difficult task of giving a new
form and spirit to industrial organza-
tlon by co-ordinating the several
agencies of Cancellation and adjust
ment which have been brought into ex-
lstence by the difficulties and mistaken
policies of the present management of
| industry, and by setting up and devel-
| oping new federal agencies of advice
ana information which may serve as
| clearing house for the best expert
ence and best thought on this great
| matter, upon which every thinking
man must be aware that the future de-
velopment of society directly depends.
Agencies of international counsel and
suggestion are presently to be created
in connection with the league of ma
tons in this very field; but it is ma
| tional action and the enlightened pol
| Icy of individuals, corporations and so
cieties within each nation that must
bring about the actual reforms. The
members of the committee on labor in
the two houses will hardly need sug-
| gestions from me as to what means
| they shall seek to make the federal
! government the agent of the whole ma
tion in pointing out, and if need be.
and reform.
Duty to Retugnine Soldiers.
81 am sure that it is not necessary
for me to remind that there is one
immediate and very practical question
of labor that we should meet in the
most liberal spirit. We must see to ii
that our returning soldiers are assist
ed in every practicable way to find
the places for which they are fitted
in the daily work of this country
This can be done by developing and
maintaining upon an adequate scale
! the admirable organization created by
the department of labor for placing
men seeking work and it can also be
done, in at least one very great field
by creating new opportunities for in
dividual enterprise. The secretary of
the interior has pointed out the way
! by which returning soldiers may be
helped to find and take up land in
the hitherto undeyeloped regions of
the country which the federal govern
ment has already prepared or can
readily prepare for cultivation and
also on many of the cut-over or neg
lected areas which lie within the lin
its of the older states; and | once
more take the liberty of recommend
ing very urgently that his plans shall
receive the immediate and substantial
support of the congress.
peculiar and very stimulating con
| ditions await our commerce and in
dustria enterprise in the Immediate
future. Unusual opportunities VIII
present themselves 10 our merchants
and producers in foreign markets, and
large fields for profitable investment
will be opened TO our free capital.
But II is not only OF that that am
thinking IT is not chiefly of that that
am thinking. Many great industries
prostrated by the war wait To be re-
| hahilitnted in many parts of the
world where what will be lacking is
/ not brains or willing hands or or
rnnizing capacity or experienced SIKH
but machinery and raw materials ana
conitol | believe that our business
men. uur merchants, our manutaetur'
ers. and our capitalists Will have the
vision to see that prosperity In one
nnrt of the world ministers To pros
nerlty everywhere; that there Is In a