The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-12
For the Good of
 the Community
(Continued From Yesterday)

UuIuSIlGU WlCIl d uufIO0f or dglCdUOfS, a set of men who are eternally scheming and working and planning to create trouble between capital and labor.
 There is no desire or intention here to defend the unjust employer, the man or men who squeeze the last ounce of strength out of their employees for the en- richment of themselves and their asso- ciates. Neither is there any intention or desire to condemn the honest workman who demands just treatment and reason able pay for his services. He is entitled to that and he ought to have the right to com- pei his employer to compensate him in pro- portion to his productiveness. There is no complaint against the labor union or or ganization as such. They have their place in the business and industrial world.
 It is the agitator, the disturber, the men who stir up trouble for no other reason than to hold onto the soft jobs they have created for themselves, that should be dis pensed with. They have no regard for the welfare of men who pay their salaries Women and children may starve and go naked for all they care Just so their own backs are well clothed and their bellies are full 1t matters not what may happen to anybody else
 These are the men that cause the great majority of labor troubles Left to them selves the employers and employees would eventually come to an agreement under which they could work in harmony.
 Discussing the proposed reduction in working hours per week The New York Tribune says:
 More can be produced by eight hours of intensive labor than in fourteen or twelve or ten hours of exhaustion. But some where the law of diminishing return will assert itself. In one hour per day as much goods cannot be made as in eight hours. Where the line is no one is able to say; maybe the average output per man will not lessen with the forty-four-hour week; as to this.experience will show. But the intel hgent leaders of the Federation know as well as anybody that a falling off in pro- duction means the wages of a week, month or year will buy less.
 Investigators have shown, if men were willing to go back to old methods of living and to restore the necessity standard of hundred years ago, that wants could be supplied with two-hour day. But the or dinary man, though he objects to the curse that closed Eden, prefers to work longer and get more. The luxuries of one genera tion are the comforts of the next and the necessities of third. No philosopher has been able to persuade the Occidental world to lessen desires. They grow and expand < The West rejects the Buddhism which teaches that the pathway to happiness is in throttling wants.
 The workman has no master in this country. He never had He is the majority Great is his power But it is beyond his power to have contradictory things. He pays his own wages out of his own product Let him diminish his product, and he low CTS his wages. Not by sympathy for or against labor are it's problems to be solved, but by the cold intelligence of the laboring masses"
 Some operators in this district claim that the production per hour under the eight-hour day. now in effect in most industrial plants and at many of the mines is less than it was when nine hours was considered days work Would it be increased or decreased with another shortening of the day?
 The head of one of the coal operating com panies states that during the fall of 1918, when the demand for coal was the greatest ever known in this district the daily output at of his mines was less than year before, despite the fact that the number of miners had been increased by more than 100. They were supposed to work the same