The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-23
FRATERNAL lNDISTRIALISM NEEDED + NATION IS TO SURVIVE, DECLARES
 PRESBYTERIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL
Labor Day Message Sent to Ten Thousand Churches Urges Members to Protect Rights of Workers to Be Real Men and Women, Not Slaves

better than a factory, a railroad, an automobile, a dollar?' Some would
 find it difficult to answer this ques- tion; others would answer 1t theOreti cally, and say that he was of infinitely more value than any one of these things. Still others would have to ad- tire1y upon the laws of supply and demand.
 T am glad to say that believe there is a growing number of employers i'll this country who would answer not only theoretically, but practically, that man is of infinite value, that without him government, industry, education, are all impossible. These are the men who are promoting fraternal indus trialism. All other forms of industrial
 ism, such as individualistic industrial ism, autocratic industrialism, paternal industria1ism, have failed, and their failure has been due very largely to the fact that they lacked the fraternal spirit, the appreciation of man as man"
 Secretary McDowelrs Labor Day Message is as follows:
 FRATERNAL INDUSTRIALISM
 By Rev. John Mcdowell, D. D.,
 Secretary, Presbyterian Board of
 National Missions.
 "A mans a man for a that Is not only good poetry; it Is sound philoso- phy, sane economies, splendid democ- racy and straight religion. The senti- ment expressed in the words of this poet of democracy wins a quick and who1e-hearted response from all class es and conditions of men. It IS rooted not only in Scripture but also III the soul of all men and the heart of all nations. Its appeal is universal be- cause it's truth IS elemental. The ideal embodied in this song of humanity makes man the test of all systems, the standard of all values and the measure of all progress. When applied to in dustry 1t means fraterna industr1al1sm the only industria1ism that satisfies the
 
 industrial world and wins the approval of mankind All other forms of in dustrialism have failed and their fail ure has been due to the lack of the tens without spirit, bodies without souls, light without heat, methods with out motive power.
 "Fraternal industrialism is dynamic; it is primarily a spirit, and that the spirit of brotherhood. It no longer de bates the question Am I my brothers keeper?' It assumes that man Is not only his brothers keeper, but his brothers brother The primary ques- ton in fraternal industrialism Is this: Tn what ways can my brother be served so as to help and not cripple his energy or his se1f-respect? This problem cannot be solved so long as 1t is regarded simply as study ot wealth and not part of study ot man as man. There are no such things today as merely political or economic or material problems. The industrial problems of our day can neither be stated nor solved in terms of money. They are problems in terms of human hearts, human homes, human char acter, human destiny. In word they are problems in terms of men made in the image of the living God.
 The development and enrichment of personality is the supreme objective Of fraternal industrialism. Accordingly, the most sacred thing in the world is not money, or machinery, but men. In dustry exists for men, not men for in dustry; and service, not profit, is it's primary purpose. Fraternal industrial ism insists that human values shall not go down to defeat before the mechan- ica1 process of producing material good. Men ands not things are all ways the goal of fraternal industrial ism In fraternal industrialism man is the measure of every problem; life is more than livelihood; and human be- ings are men before they are workrnen or employers. Men are never regarded as just hands in the mill where fra ternal industrialism prevails. They are