The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-12-01
A SICK SYSTEM
INDUSTRIALLY
By CY w. PERKINS
Editor Cigar Makers Official

JOuIIldl.
All agree that if we are to have
a really worth while system of pro-
duction and distribution icompe-
tency, mismanagement, graft, and
profiteering must go. We find some
among the workers who would en-
tirely destroy the whole present sys-
tenn of production and distribution.
All of those who profit through the
advantage secured by combination,
exploiting government and control
of capital, through the credit sys-
TEN, and other sinister means, are
satisfied. There is a profound and
intense feeling and determination
on the part of many among the
workers and the far-seeing, fair en-
ployers to seek, through remedial
measures to the present system, to
build up a more just and equitable
system, that will serve the best in
terests of the workers, the fair
minded employer and the general
public.
This element moreover feel that no
system can be declared incompetent
until after fair and scientific meth
DDS are applied. They feel, too, that
if this is done and the system proves
inefficient it will fall of its own
weight.
Because of the short-sightedness
and autocratic. slave-driving policies
of the Gar of Russia and big in
terests a just and fair system of
production and distribution was new
er allowed to be put into operation
and was never tried out in Russia.
The ultra radical sought to build
an untried and what many hold to
be an impossible industrial system
upon the wreck of a system that
never did have half chance to show
its worth or failure.
No one denies that life is evolu-
tionary. No one with any sense can
or will deny that industry is evolu-
tionary. Evolution in industry has
gone forward with leaps and bounds
in the last fifty years. Big interests
and greedy employers have taken
advantage of improved methods of
production and distribution and have
appropriated the great bulk of it's
gain to their own private use and
enrichment
This was made possible because of
the lack of thorough organization of
the INDUSTRIAL NOIheTS. me remedy
which will help lies not in the hands
of the few nor does it rest entirely
in the hands of the workers nor en-
tirely in the hands of the manufac-
turers. big interests, and capitalists.
Those who are constructionists,
who believe in building up before we
start tearing down, should cooper
ate with fair-minded, efficient, COM
petent employers in the effort to in
stall a system of production and dis
tribution such as will bring about
the following fundamentals: Eff
cheney in industry; scientific meth
DDS; elimination of all waste; elm
nation of incompetent management;
cooperation of willing workers with
competent management; service in
stead of excessive profits; the recog-
milton of brains and capacity when
rightfully applied; the recognition
of the fact that the worker is en-
titled to a full share of the wealth
that he creates; and a determination
that there shall be no predatory
rich, that there shall be no poverty
unless self-imposed, that the profit
on labor and brains shall be fairly
divided, and that excess profits shall
go to the purpose of creating better
homes, better life for the toiling
MASSES, development of natural re-
sources and improved methods of
production, to the end that all who
work and toll with hand or brain
may enjoy the fullest measure of the
result of their labor and their activ-
tiles.