Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-09-04
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
in Europe Follow the Great
World War?
DAWN OF THE NEW ORDER"
Relations Between Employer and En-
ployee, Based or Sound Human
Ethics, Replacing Doctrine of
rorce, Is the Only Hope.
Article xXXlIl.
BY FRANK coMERFoR0.

PIC uf'liid htA IT. J. iitot tiO biflftNF az
Change" must surrender to the ma
jority. America should be the first
country to recognize the need Of a
change" The building Of the New
Order should be done with the heads
and by the hands Of all classes.
Collective bargaining and profit
sharing will be part Of the New Or
der" If the business men Of America
do not cooperate TO bring about col
iective bargaining and profit sharing,
the people will resort to force.
Charles NJ. SchWab, chairman of the
board Of directors of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation. Is a captain of in
dustry with vision. lie is a forward
looking American. He believes that
The basis of big business must be
gOunded on sound human ethics. The
other day he hit the nail on the head
when he SAID;
What the working men want is
recognition, appreciation and fellow
ship. 1t Is the duty Of every business
man in the United States to see TO 1t
that the largest possible opportunity
for employment is given the greatest
Number of men.
Through personal relationships
and the tone Of the business estab-
lished on these principles, the rank
snd file Of men will come to know the
spirit Of the management and there
will be no question of the loyalty of
the men TO the management
The kind of collective bargaining
that | believe in is the one that recog-
nizes the right of the men themselves
20 choose their own fellow workmen
a. representatives. 20 speak with the
company and which believes in the
obligation Of the companw to treat
these representatives. individually and
collectively with the confidence ana
respect to which they are justly en-
titled"
The working men must not be made
the slaves Of business. they must be
made part of it. Political freedom.
liberty under the law. are robbed Of
their meaning If men are euslaved by
their work. II is not enough to make
man free before the law. he mus
be safe and free in his work. There
IL difference between political free
dom and industrial freedom. Men are
entitled to both forms of freedom.
One thought is uppermost and almost
universal in the minds of the work
ing men Of the world, and that is that
they have not had Il square deal I
agree with them. The evidence sup
porting their thought is 0verwhejm-
ing. Men who give their lives 10 work
have positive right to a voice In the
management Of the business. This
right must be recognized. Working
men know that unkll they are given
voice their interests will be without
spokesman and as a consequence
will be neglected II isn't a question
only OF wages or hours of employ
ment; tie matter goes deeper. Men
want the pleasure and satisfaction Of
being part of the business. They have
been only parg of the business in the
sense thar they sweat for it and give
their lives tie it,
hopor ana capital should be part
herSn'p. Inc Two are like the blades
NJ scissors; separate and apart they
are meoHnsieSS and Halueless. Joined
together, fuctouing harmonionSly,
rhey are useful and necessary to the
world. This partnership idea must be
put INTO practice The product of the
t.f
PARTNERSHIP must De more fairly iii
Wded' There is no gainSaying the
Ia'i mat distribution has been en-
ore'y IN 'Ae names Of the employers
ana th'} have been selfish, aud the
WORKERS nave suffered As President
M"Sa}r put Of To me one day Her,
we h''e pile OF gold and few
people In possession of it, wasting il
- their own injury aud TO the detri