The sun., 1919-07-21
REORGANIZATION
OF INDUSTRY URGED
Bishop Williams Predicts
Partnership Of Employer,
Employee and Public.
CHURCH MUST WAKE Up
New Party Needed to Adjust
Labor and Kindred Prob
lens, Prelate Says.

The characterization of industry" a
partnership consisting OF employer, en-
pioyee and public, is coming and the
Episcopal Church should get behind the
movement. the Right Rev. Charles David
Williams, d. D.. Episcopal Bishop or
Michigan, asserted yesterday.
Bishop williams. who completed yes
terday the series of sermons he has been
delivering in Grace Church In the absence
Of the Rev. DR.. Charles l.. Slattery the
rector, confined himself to theological
matters in his remarks from the pulpit,
but afterward spoke OF the nationwide
campaign OF the church to muster the
resources OF the church for national
service. He said that the work of the
church has hitherto been done lin an
entirely too haphazard and miscellane-
Gus manner" but that the new cam
paign will mean a businesslike way OF
undertaking the Kings business
1.-THE church must wake up" declared
Bishop williams. THE crisis is upon
US. Unless we face our responsibilities
and meet the issue which has been
thrust upon us we may as well put up
our shutters and go out of business.
Democracy's fundamental creed is con-
fidence in the innermost worth OF the
undermost man. We have got to have
that belief II we are going to discharge
our duty in the new day which is upon
u.s. Christ had that vision; the whole
Gospel is based upon it; and IL the
Episcopal Church is going TO be true
to itself 1t will not falter now.
1.-THE characterization OF industry is
coming as sure as tomorrow. We have
gone through all the stages OF owner
and slave, lord and serf. employer and
employee. The next step is a copart-
nership consisting of employer. employee
and the public--the public coming in to
regulate both and see that justice is
done to all and that the ultimate con-
sumner does not suffer.
I'm the characterization OF labor and
the League of Nations l see tho greatest
hope for the future, and It is the duty
Of the church to be allied with every
cause which makes for humanity's bet
terment."
Bishop Williams IS inclined 10 favor
new political party committed to the
| reforms embraced in industrial democ-
racy He is a member OF the recently
| formed committee OF forty-eight which
seeks to combine in one party for poll
teal action the Farmers Non-Partisan
League. the labor unions and offshoots OF
| the Progressive party. which are idenu-
fed colloqulally as intelectuals.
England" said he, lis far more ad-
| NanCed than We toward the luedl OIL an
Industrial democracy. Her Labor party
will bring II about In the British En-
pire Our labor unions in the United
states have made the mistake of con-
! nning their efforts to technical problems
of wages and conditions and hours OF
| en- ployment. They have avoided polit-
teal action and have resisted any fell
lowship with the intellectuals, while the
English laborltes have welcomed them
and in consequence over there the brain
and Drawn workers have stood solidly
side by side"
Asked II he favored the creation OF a
labor party in the United States, Bishop
| Williams said that some distinct crys-
| utilization OF all the elements who sec
that the problems OF the future are 10
run on economic and social lines is nee
essay
Il cont know whether II will come
through the organization OF labor
party" he said. but such a party seems
| to be the best point for such crystalliza-
ton now. There are two camps OF un-
| reason operating against the best inter
ests OF the people, and In these. or
either hand. are entrenchcd Bolshevisnr
| and repression. Religion and educa
| ton are the forces with which TO op-
pose them. Here are the opportunities
| Of the church, II she will only make use
Of them. The industrial democracy mus
be based on intelligence and the Chris,
tan conscience. and n is along these
lines that the church must operate"