Evening star., 1922-10-01
Outlook for Labor and Coming Elections

these two groups at times overlap,
that does not by any means destroy
the separate identity of the groups or
becIoud their distinct functions. Man
agement has certain definite functions
for which it must be held responsible.
The short -comings of management
cannot be laid at the doors of labor.
Labor has already incorporated in
its formulated demands upon industry
a demand for efficient management.
1t is the duty of management to cor
relate and regulate the various divi-
sions and processes of production.
Bad management results in low grade
production and sometimes in bank
ruptcy and the workers pay the pen
atty. Bad management cannot pro-
agement so. as to pay either good
profits or good wages.
Labor has a right to demand that
its energies be not dissipated and
wasted by bad management The
most appalling and inexcusable bad
management is that which is made
ineffective or inefficient by the die
tates of a financial control Great
industries compelled to adopt wrong
methods at the behest of a financial
control must collect from the work
ers directly employed a portion of the
cost Of that control. For the most
part MANAGEMENT is intelligent enough
from Wall street domination, but has
not yet found the way to freedom
from that domination.
Future welfare demands co-opera-
tion between management, labor and
engineers for the release of all In
dustry from a senseless. wasteful,
unsocial and brutalizing control by
powerful high finance.
Legitimate PROFITS Unopposed.
Against an honest return and legiti-
mate profits but few will protest. We
have yet to find an equal spur to in
itiative.. What labor maintains is that
profit must not be the sole and DOM
mating motive in industry, but that
profit must come as the natural and
logical result of service rendered and
must constitute reward for service
instead Of a reward for speculation,
chicancery, exploitation and auto
cratic domination.
Our machinery Of production sur
passes the machinery Of production in
any other country in the world. It
is capable OF infinitely more than it
IL doing. 1t is and has been under
the necessity Of operating at less than
capacity because Of the common prac-
shutdown indulged in by those who
control the most important Industrial
organizations in our country.
It has been charged that the trade
unions restrict output. That may
have been true in the long ago, but
it Is not true today. There is. how
ever, an enormous restriction Of out
put for which the whole country suf-
fers. Is there any important indus
try In our country which produces
to capacity twelve months in the
year? Moreover, is there any indus
try in our country in which the ma
chinery and methods of production
could not be altered or improved so
as greatly to increase the possible
volume Of output? II there is such
an industry have not heard Of it.
II there is this lack Of capacity pro-
duction, who is responsible for the
limitation? Manifestly, it is those
who own or control the industries.
when Management IL Free.
am confident, and all labor is con-
fident, that when management with
! the help Of labor succeeds in releas-
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