Republican farmer., 1919-03-21
BUSINESS MUST
 GIVE UP "BIC
 STICK ATTITUDE
Labor Must Be Given Larger Share In Profits, Says
 Century"

New York, March Special Cor responIence.) "UninteIigen resist ance today spells revolution; creative leadership spells progress '--that is the opinion of MT Glenn Frank, the so- ciologist and author who contributes to the April Century a study of the new spirit in business, called ''Anony- nous Liberalism" Relations between labor and capital must be adjusted so as to grant labor a. larger share in the profits and in the management of industry, purely as a matter of good business. According to MT. Frank, If a stupid conservatism should attempt to revert to 'big-stick' methods in dealing with labor difficulties, one would need either courage or bind ness to contemplate the future with an easy nind.'
 Says Mir Frank, calling in the po- lice, mobilizng the militia, employ ing detectives arresting labor leaders, blocking discussion, and forcing pas sions underground are not only un- democratic methods; they are unin. telhgent methods; they are played out The business executive who uses
  interests, but his firing-squad type of mind does not SC far: in using such methods he is playing directly into the hands of the revolutionary. Con- structive conservatism, by refusing to employ these methods forces the rad tcal leader to present a satisfa ctory 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 a common anta gonist who flaunts his antagonism in their faces, or com mon action in behalf of a program that captures their ina gination and appeals to their sense of justice. Au- tocratic indifferences to the aspira- tions that are moving the masses of a nation has spelled bankruptcy of authority for governments through out history: a11tocrattC attempts to suppress such aspirations have spelled revolution throughout history.
 Business men realize with a defi- niteress that is relatively recent that capital loses even when it wins in a fight with labor, simply because bus mess cannot be permanently pTOfita- ble unless it's relations with labor are cordial, al,---especially with the numer- ical strength of labor becoming polit-
 
 with labor cannot be consistently cor dial as long as labor unrest is dealt with on the basis of a tournament rather than parliament. A system of relations between employer and empJoye that usually breaks down when the issue is of fundamental i'm portance and forces both parties to fight their way toward a decision is clearly inadequate for the sort of times we are coming into; it is a costly system. as all expedients are costly; it generates and leaves behind too many tsullen antagonisms that may be played upon by destructive radi- calism.
 There are 20 outstanding leaders of American business and industry who have always been. classed as conserv- ative men concerned primarily with the financial problems of industry; if these 20 men should pool their brain power in a study of the labor prob lens 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- selled with the students of chemical. electrical and other problems that touch their business interests and if they should take the initiative in making q sincere and exhaustive study of the whole area lying between the extreme forms of private capital ism and the extreme forms of State Socialism in order to find out whether or not there is a middle ground of in G!Jlstrial self-goyernnent on which both labor and capital can stand in a cooperation that will minister to the legitimate aims of both, they would, with dramatic suddenness, invent a
 
 can public is waiting for a business states1nanship that will attack the governmental problem in industry