Evening star., 1922-11-16
GARFIELD FAVORS
APPRENTICE PLAN
Would PenaIize UnskiIIed
Laborers to Encourage
SeIf-lmprovement.

! Special Dispatch to The Star.
/ wfLLCAMSTowN,M MASS, November
! 1s.-Modern wording methods make
] for time -waStins. Self elf-improvement
is interfered with and ambition is
crushed.
Convinced Of this fact. President
Harry Garfield Of williams College
dc sires to penalise all unskilled work.
ers. He would have this class of
! Americans paid only enough to sup
port themselves as individuals. They
have no right TO demand such q liv-
] ing wage as would allow them to
marry and support families. Instead,
; II such workers wanted to marry. DR..
Garfield holds that it is up to the wife
: to work and help to support the
T.. family.
! Dr. Garfield. son of the martyred
President, James A. GARFIELD. and him.
self federal fuel administrator during
the recent war, has taken decided
stand on the subject. He amplified
his position today. insisting that be.
hind 1t 10 the welfare OF the unframed
laborers Of this nation. What he
wants Is q return to the old system of
apprenticeship In labor.
F, All Besin Alike.
!; 1--WE all begin by being unskilled and
acquire skill in proportion to the effort
| and intelligence used in improving our
opportunities" he said today.
/; 1.-THE rewards of labor are in part
! wages. In part they are something
] much more valuable. namely. time to
ton against natural and social hazards.
The unskilled employe. whether In
the workshop or In the office. ought not
to receive In wages more than enough
! to keep him In good working condition.
with enough over to bear his part-and
the cost OF providing the facilities and
protection necessary to his welfare.
THAT country is the most enlightened
| which furnishes the best facilities for
waiting the character Of its youth. and
which protects it's citizens in life. pros
perity and the pursuit Of happiness, this
last chiefly by furnishing adequate
police protection, hospitals, clinics, dis
pensaries and insurance.
The best facilities for training
mind and body ought not to be con-
fined to the public school as now
| organized. The continuation school.
furnishing. as t. does. opportunity
[ to every wage Garner, skilled or un-
skilled. to fit himself stin further for
a permanent part of our public sys-
tenn Of education. and every employer
should furnish to every employe de-
| string to take advantage of the sys-
TEN time enough to do SO.
| Employer to Decide.
TT is impossible to pay wages
enough to enable the wage earne.
chase these advantages for himself.
The captains of industry must decide
whether they will reward labor
wholly by wages or by wages and
time-which is opportunity.
III they elect to pay wages only.
the unskilled laborer must be paid
| sufficient to support himself, a wife,
and children. But this would be to
the detriment of labor. It certainly
1 would strengthen class distinctions
hardly to be broken down by the
evitab!y would follow. The same line
| of argument applies to capital.
The trades unions would have ac-
complished more had they kept to
their original purpose to organize
only skilled men. but when they con.
| the coal fields and fixed living scale
| for them. the differential demk6d6
that the wages of the skilled forces
| be forced up. with the result that the
morale Of society no longer could
Asked to define unskilled labor
from his viewpoint, DR.. Garfield re-
piled:
you can put It this way. BY un-
skilled labor mean the sort Of labor
that was, under the old guild system.
known as apprentice labor.
Leisure Time wanted.
1--WE have gotten too far away from
the old apprenticeship idea. Boys and
). girls go to work in factory today.
and in a short time they are earning
as much as their fathers. They are