New-York tribune., 1919-07-06

contrasts and new meaning lor chaih-
pion fighters"
"The Revolt of the Hidden Hand"
Not detective story, but SOBER ac-
count of a new factor in the modern feud
between capital and labor, the organiza'
ton of third and perhaps controlling
party, the brain workers of industry
bo,,roeoisie a!l-appears in The Contem-
pora1u RerieW under this striking title.
In part it is prophetic and speculative.
But in Englord the movement is already
we'll under way. Last April the general
secretary Of the Society of Technical
Engineers formally requested that the
brain workers unions be granted repre-
sentation on the National Industrial
Council. Enc,ard's new body for solving
it's grave industrial problems. The re-
quest has not yet been granted. But the
society is apparently powerful and well
organized. a federation of wide range
of unions representing brain as distinct
from muscle workers is the next step
planned
Who are the men who will form these
unions? Here is the list suggested IN
this Englst. article:
Scientific investigators.
Inventors.
General devsers and special desisners.
Laboratory men and the examiners Of
goods
Work finders.
Cost fxers.
Finance experts.
BUYERS cf materials and sellers Of
goods.
Labor SPECIALISTS and welfare wardens
Managers snd business administrators
Foremen. overseers and superntend-
ents.
This is very large slice Of the boarge-
oise, it will be noted. Roughly speak
ing, there were about half a million OF
these groups in the United Kingdom in
the years just preceding the war. The
writer of the article discusses the objec-
ton often ,aised that the rank and file
Of these c'asses are less amena5le to
discipline and more difficult to unite:
But it may be urged-what, indeed
the writer easily dscerned at crowded
private meeting Of the Technical Eng-
neers Soci5ty, which he attended by in
vtaton as ar obsevant outsider, ar the
Lincolnshire Room, in Tothill Street,
Westminster, some nine months &go-
that though the alert. shrewd, capable
men who constitute those brain workers
unions may londer long before they take
definite course, they are not likely to
abandon Il, once it has been entered
upon. without impeccablc reason,'
If they can stick together the power
of these men is regarded as all control
ling. Capitai cannot live without them
and labor oanrot, either, as Bolshevist
Russia is finding out;
at is significant that since this article
was typed an interview has been pub
lished in The Daily Chronicle in which
Icninc is rel resented as acknowledging
that the Bolshevist regime has had. II
period Of transition, to signify truce
IN
engage in rctrograde movement by
paying hirh salaries in order to secure
the services Of the most important bourge
ois specialists in another sentence de
scribed IS scientific and technical ox'
perts).
! "Assurclly il may be admitted in the
. frankest way that it is the brain worker
who. alone with tie miliion-foIcc armic.
Of the manual workers, can secure for u
that hugely enlarged production which is
our imperative need if We are TO lif
ourselves out Of the deep pit in which We
find ourselves. Remembering how the
fate of the empire will be in solution il
, the workshops Of Britain within the mex
three or five years, the attitude IF these
brain workers TO our economic problems
never unimgor.ant, must surely bulk a.
supreme amorg tho considerations before
the nation ~ this hour. Happy, there
5 fore. mus we all be &c learn that thci
motto, together with their standard O
efficiency, is 'More Production with Les
Effort"
G The precise policy Of these unions re
I mains TO bc defined II is critical o.
T capital, and Of labor as well. Cf th'
latter the article says:
"They know all too acutcly that labor
~ hitherto interpreted. works mu"h les
hard and. ctnsidoring their respective
= achievements, has beon much moro hand
) somely rewarded. For example, tn