The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-27
REV. J. T. WARE SPEAKS
 ON LABOR PROBLEMS

At St. Andrews church yesterday morn-
 ing the Rev. J. T. Ware preaching, sermon of lively interest on the labor problems of today. MT. Ware said in part:
 He that hath two coats, let him inn
 part to him that hath none This means, Hive simply that others may live more abundantly" It is the christian solu- tion fo the labor problem of today.
 Capital is savings. Instead of blow
 ing in'' his money, a man saves it and buys a machine National welfare de- mands that this should be encouraged.
 "It is not this legitimate capital but capital derived from inheritance, monop- oly or chance which Nmbitters the poor
 man. A recent news item states that in single New York apartment house there are fifteen bachelors, only two of whom have ever done days work, with an annual income of $2,000o00 be- tween them. Unless doing valuable but unpaid scientific or philanthropic work. for an able bodied man to live idly upon an income. is gross sin. Until the law places such incomes in the hands of trustees for the benefit of public edu- cation and health, it is the duty of the wealthy christian to live simply on what he earns for himself and devote to the public good his inherited or Chance
 made income either through investment or philanthropy.
 Theoretically labor's right to organize and to strike seems sound. But what infuriates the public is the use of the strike not as a weapon against great wrong but in petty disputes and even | to further personal ambitions regard l less of the cost to the public; the use 1 of the closed shop to effect monoply
 which makes shoddy work and extor-
 tionate rates possible; the tendency of
 some crafts to secure their own pros perity no matter what the cost to un-
 skilled labor or the public; and, worst of all, labors ideal of an easy com 1 fortable life rather than great and noble one
 l 'lf the unions would regain public 1 confidence tneE must aet themselves l to teaching their members to live sim ply adjuring silk shirts and high-power motor cars. and for the public good, | to work, not as men-pleasers but as in
 the sight of God to sacrifice that all
 even brain workers, may have sanitary housings, to sacrifice to keep the chill dren in school. to support public educa- ton and health, and themselves con- stantly to seek that intelligence and
 skill which will enable them to produce
 not less but more than they need for living.
 "But there is another factor in the labor ohlem-management. Management uses 1 ca ,'tal; management sometimes saves capital out of it's wages: but manage ment is work. work partly to make
 money but chiefly to make men. ''The true test of management Is the ennoblement of the labor which it en,-
 blows. In the early years of my min istry I used to find young people con fessing with shame to employment m
 certain factories which were notorious as breeding places of vice and immoral itv. let management count itself failure
 when the Influence of working In It's plant is not so elevating that labor is as proud of it's mill or factory as man is of his college.
 "If I were beginning my life work
 anew, I would strive to f't myself for
 industrial management for today the
 nidustrial manager has just that oppor- tunity which some of us thought ten
 wears or so ago to find in the ministry the opportunity to bring life mora
 abundant to less fortunate fellows. Rnt to do this management must pay the price. It must set capital an example in making sacrifices. Tt must live in close touch and svr',N .iy With it's labor. It must live sir?lv in or1er that others may have the life more abundant.