The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
The SteadyJ Job
By H. ADDHNGTON BRUCE

Some day it may be universally appre. ciated, as it ,assuredly is not now, that one of the most potent causes of social unrest and discontent is uncertainty of employment.
 When workers In large numbers have tc live in perpetual fear of :.-reddctions' and "shutdowns" that will deprive them, of, occu. patton, when industrial conditions force on many a semi-nomadic existence, it is hardly surprising. to find strong undercurrent of bitterness and resentment.
 All men, whatever their social status, what ever their education or lack of education have sundry instinctive cravings in common All men feel that they have the right to ex- pect certain satisfactions-notablyt the sat isfaction of happy home life-prOvided they put forth due effort to gain them and retain them.
 If, then, from no fault of theirsOWn they find themselves at recurrent intervals denied opportunity for the necessary effort, if they see not only their home life imperilled b1l themselves and their loved ones menaced by want, he would indeed be foolish who should expect them to accept such state of affairs unmurmuringly. l Ponder this declaration by one employer of labor, Whiting Williams, who, in the guis, of an unskilled worker carried on for months personal inquiry into the influences mak ing for antitsOcial sentiments among, work ingmen:
 Next to the fundamental humanness Ol all, of us the outstanding impression, as try to marshal the various experiences iT single file past the reviewing stand Of mem Ory is certainly this the most important fac tor of all in the life of a wage-worker is thu ieb-the daily job.
 For him the day commences with thu breathing of the prayer, Give us this day our dailysjob.' That is the only way in whicf the daily bread may be spelled with satisfae tiOn and contentment in civilization or ganized for the mass production required fol meeting a fast-moving worlds mass needs. All that I have seen or heard or fell combines to make me believe that it is i'm possible to see the world as the worker seel it. without looking at it through the eye' of the man to whom the need of the daily bread-together with the need of the daily hope-means the need of the daily job" Of course there is the consideration that the seasonal character of Some occupations ups and downs ip demand, changes in fash ion. and so forth, combine to make the in suring of a steady job for all workers an impossibility. Decidedly, though, it is possi ble to devise means for lessening to an ap- preciable extent the present employment haz ard which keeps multitudes in constant fear of loss of work sf5s at
 Multiplication of employment agencies public and private, is an ameliorative meas ure of. undoubted importance, but cannot be regarded as a really curative one. It deals, manifestly,- with an unfortunate effect, rather than with the cause of that effect. The pre- venting of unemployment is the thing most sorely needed.
 And it may be set down with confidence that in proportion as the preventing of un- employment is achieved the social organism will be less and less afflicted with the pains and aches now so frequently springing from class antagOnismsr and conflicts: