The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-01-19
Work for All When ALI Workers Work
CE. E. Mannin in Forbes Magazine)

students of economics and sociology
attribute the unstable position of the
worlds trade to cyclicaI fluctuations
OF industry, the inevitable outcome OF
a world war, the difficulties in con-
nection with exchange rates, inflated
prices, the wage problem, and innum-
cradle other causes. That these causes
exist and that they have their natural
bearing on the problem is of course.
unquestiOnable. But at the same time
there is yet another underlying, under
mining cause at the back of trade diff
ficulties and problems which are not
merely peculiar to America, but which
are affecting the industrial and com
mercial progress of every country that
participated in the war
And that cause is simply this-that
the workers do not work as they used
to. Let us be frank about it. 1t is no
use deceiving ourselves or attempting
to conceal unpleasant truths The av-
erage worker of today. not only in this
country, but all over the world, is out
for shorter hours and bigger wages.
There is lot of talk, among extrem-
lists, of having been work slaves" in
the past. BY which they mean that the
average workers life was mainly a
matter of work Well, supposiag II
was? Were we not happier and more
prosperous in those days? Never in
history has there been so much suf
NJ In,
is today, and it is significant that new /
er in history has there been so much
agitation and Industrial unrest. The
profound tragedy of it all is that new
er in history was there so vital a need
for every ounce of energy every ounce
Of productive power every ounce of
cooperation. in rebuilding the broken
world, as there is today.
In work only lies the salvation of
The workers of the world; by work
only may happiness and prosperity be
'estored for the nation and the indi
'idual alike
In England. it has been estimated ,
hat hard and conscientious work on
he part of every worker. manual la I
'orer and clerk alike together with :
peace and sped-up produc- 6
ion for the next six months, would
bsorb the entire mass of UNEMPLOYED. l.
British trade is slowly but surely on q
he upward grade. British business r
len are talking good business in the /,
elief that there is no lubricant so :,
God for the wheels of business as op- q
mism; spirit of hope has crept Fl
lroughout the community of British =
orkers They are determined to h
ork out the solution of their indus .
ial problem =
And therein lies the remedy for f.
merica, and for every nation faced Ia
it'll problems of unemployment trade 81
jumps and under production. n,
In every office and workshop %
ould have emplazoned in letters of
IS SALVATION. 10
And by work ! mean full-time work. ",
t half-time work. I mean that every in
lnual worker or clerical worker. en- i,
oyer or employee, managing director no
Junior stenographer. executive or ~.
ice boy must work so minutes of
ch hour for a good eight hour day
d then some, if need be. And in
'st cases there is a need. err
Work is salvation; let us never for col
that great truism. Good work ben col
is everybody, the employer and the ar!
ploye alike. Where men and women
rk hard and enthusiastically. trade
YES and keeps moving. always in 0oC
path Of progress. A nation of half o,u
e workers, workers who count the du,
lrs to knocking-off time, and the 100