New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
in Europe Follow the Great
World War?
DAWN OF THE NEW ORDER
Relations Between Employer and EN-
ployee, Based IN Sound Human
Ethics, Replacing Doctrine of
Force, Is the Only Hope.
Article XXxIIl.
BY FRANK

The New Order is coming. The
world must prepare for il. The peo-
pie demand it.. Those who oppose any
change" must surrender TO the mat
jority, America should be the first
country Ia recognize the need of ii
"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
%lectiye bargaining and profit sharing,
the people will cso To force.
Charles VI. SchWab. chairman of the
board of directors of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation, is II captain of in
looking American. lie believes that
The basis of big business must be
goundcd on sound human ethics. The
other day he hi. the nail on the head
when he said:
what the working men want is
recognition, appreciation and fellow
ship II is the duty of every business
man in the United States 10 see To it
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
and file Of men will come To know the
spirit of the management and there
will he no question of the loyalty of
the men to the management.
THE kind of collective bargaining
that | believe in is the II that recos-
nizes the right of the men themselves
10 choose their W fellow workmen
Ms representatives To speak with the
company and which believes in the
obligation of the company to treat
these representatives individually and
collectively with the confidence and
respect 10 which they are justly en-
titled"
The working men must not he made
INV AhN'e w bAiNAii'HHs ivy hlINA Nv
made part Of it. Political freedom,
liberty under the law, are robbed of
their meaning II men are enslavcd by
their work. 1t is not enough to make
a man free before the law, he must
be safe and free in his work. There
Is n 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 II square deal. |
agree with them. The evidence sup
porting their thought is orerwhelm-
ing. Men who give their lives TO work
have II positive right to n voice in the
management of the business. This
right must bc recognized. Working
men know that until they are given
a voice their interests will be without
n spokesman and as n consequence
will be neglected. II isn't Il question
only of wage or hours of employ
ment; the matter goes deeper. Men
want the pleasure and satisfaction of
being part of the business. They have
been only part of the business ia the
sense that they sweat for ii and give
their lives to il.
Partnership Is the Solution.
Labor and Capital should he "A part
ucrship. The two are like the blades
of a scissors separate and apart they
are meaningless and valucleSs. Joined
together. functioning tremendously.
they are useful and necessary to the
world. This partnership idea must be
put into practice. The product Of the
partnership must be more fairly di-
vlded. There is no gainsaying the
fact that distribution has been en-
tirely in the hands OF the employers.
workers have suffered. As President
Masayrik put IL to me one day Here
we have n pile of gold and q few
people in possession of 1t, wasting 1t
to their own injury and to the detri-
mcnt of the world. while over here we
have the many living in Indebtedness
and fear" Everywhere in Europe |
found progressive public men and for
ward-looking men of big business I'd
hitting that the working man has not
had a square deal.
There was u day in the world when
usury was not considered a social or
legal crime. Money-lenders insisted
they had n right To loan their money
AT any rate of interest the borrower
was willing Il pay. They justified
taking advantage of the borrowers
necessity by arguing it WIS part Of the
right Of private contract. When
some saner minds urged that the state
had an interest. hat the public well
fare was affected by the lender exact
ing the last pound of flesh. a great
cry vent up that the sacred right of
private contract was being invaded /:
that the liberty of mans relation with
man was being violated. Yet the
laws against usury came. and they
have remained. These laws insist
that a lender shall be limited i'm the