Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-01-23

dustry and with regard to the conditions under which
their services to industry rendered.
Is our present organization OF industry in any
way suggestive Of partnership in which Labor Cap
ita Management, and the Community regarded
as nter-reated and nter-dependentp Far from it
as everyone knows who has gwen the organization
of industry moments reflection am dealing, oil
course, only with the dominant types of large in
dustria organization, for it is mainly from this source
that our present problems arise: transportation
manufacturing. mining ETC.. etc.-So tar as control
goes, it is all in the nature of monopoly of con-
troll on the part OF Capital.
The owners of capital the capital investors,
choose the Board of Directors; the Board of Direct
ors choose the Management and dictate the policies.
The Management regards itself responsible solely
to Capital Labor and the Community become con-
sderation only so far as they the able to make their
power felt. Profits for Capital first consider
alton; profits usually as high as it is possible to
make them. Wages to Labor, prices to the Com
m'inity. are what they can be kept at, what the
market will allow Labor and the Community are
not regarded partners. entitled to share, through
common knowledge, in common venture, in gains
ad losses alike. Such control as they exercise is
control that is forced not control that is volun-
tariy shared; control that in the nature of things
begets an attitude of mitancy on their part.
1t is this monopoly on the part of Capital in the
control and direction of industry that has led to the
developments that are described as socalistc, ultra
radical, and even anarchstic More than any other
factor, it lies at the root of the industrial upheavals
of the present time. The other parties to industry
though feeling themselves entitled to be regarded
partners. have despaired of gaining any measure of
joint control by concessions. They have felt them
selves driven to exact by force. what they believe
to be their rghtfu dues. In the of Labor, this
demand for recognition in the control of industry has
asserted itself in the form of strikes In the case of
the Community it has taken the form of arbitrary en-
actment leading to the assumption OF single control
by the state municipality.
What is the Socialistc State or Colectivsm which
is its industrial expression, other than industry
gained as to transfer industrial control from Capital
to the Community to the exclusion of the other par
tiesp Under the Socialis.ic State, the government
would choose the managers OF industry, would own
the instruments OF production, evyng taxation where
more Capital was required, and would fix the wages
Of Labor, and the prices at whics commodities are
to be Sold
The War has revealed that the Socialistic State.
which many wokers have been led to believe is GER
tain to be bene6cient and idealistc. may become
the most bureaucratic and autocratc of agencies,
holding within its power the lives and freedom of
men, as well as the conditions of their employment.
Germany has given that object lesson to the world
The little there has been of State Control during
the war has also revealed that the substitution of
political managers for industrial managers is not
likely to be the best for either industry or the State.
OF that all countries have had taste.
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