, 1922-03-24
SUCCEED OR FAIL TOGETHER.

"The working class and the employing class have
nothing in common" is a declaration to be found in
= set of principles proclaimed by the American branch
of the Bolshevik movement-the L W. w. This state
ment is false just as most statements from the same
source are false, and designed to deceive.
There is no distinctly working class nor a separate
employing class in the United States or anywhere else
where labor thrives. There may be an employed and
an employing class, but even SO the line of demarka-
ton is so slight as to be barely distingushable. Most
employers are also workers although not receiving
their compensation in the form of a daily wage. The
Bolshevik assumes that only employees work and that
employers are drones IN the hive of industry.
Regardless of the attempt to create erroneous i'm
pressions by a deliberate misuse of terms, the state
ment is nevertheless wholly false. The working class
and the employing class have almost everything in
common. There can be no employed class unless there
are employers. There can be no employers unless
there are men who have first worked and earned and
saved in order that they may have money with which
to employ others in useful occupation.
The two have much in common. Not only the
amount but the regularity of the wage of the employee
depends upon the continued prosperity of the employ
err. The employee has, therefore, a very vital inter-
est in the prosperity and success of the undertakings
of the employer. On the other hand the employer
has an equally vital interest in the welfare of his en-
ployes. In order to render satisfactory service the
employee must be in good health, must be properly fed.
clothed, and housed, must be reasonably well salts
fled and have a hope of improving his condition through
the intelligence and fidelity with which he performs
his work Employers recognize this interest in the
welfare of their employees and give every reasonable
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most efficient service, encourage them in saving a part
of their earnings, offer them an opportunity to acquire
an interest IN the enterprise, and never fail to recog-
Tize merit by promotion.
The principles enunciated by these radicals by what
ever name you may choose to call them, have no other
purpose than to create discomfort and bring on a state
of chaos in society. They are designed to deceive men
who have had small experience and are not accus-
toned to analyze statements placed before them. In
the United States, fortunately, the proportion Of those
who are SO ignorant as to be thus deceived is relative
1y small, and, therefore, the j. W. W. movement has
gained little Roadway. The great majority of the
working people of the United States, whether wage
earners or those working on their own account, recog-
rize the truth of the statement made by the late Col.
Theodore Roosevelt when he said:
eff the laboring man permits himself to put improp-
er burdens on capital he will bring everything down
with a crash; and even if the man higher up is smash
ed, this will be mail comfort to the man lower down
If he too is under the ruins"
The facS of the matter is that the EMPLOYING class
and the employed class have about everything in COM
mon and they must work together if they succeed for
if they pull apart it is. the simple matter of failing
together.