The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-03-05
THIS WEEK
Ernest Rice Mckinney
Preston News Service)
No Place for Communism

nh the company 20 years. No one of
h. Ave has worked for the company
,... than 80 years. This must be a
u-.ttv good company TO work for.
There isn't much chance for the Com
nrnists VI get in any effective prop
,o,nda around this company's back
Yard This and other organizations
LA 4 Dennison Manufacturing Com
o,ry and Proctor and Gamble are
proving that it is possible for employer
and employee to get along together in
os,ce contentment and to their mutual
benefit.
This struggle in an industrial jungle
!. rot really necessary. All the fault
does pot lie with the employers nor
,-bo,l,- with the workers. Each of
these groups has a duty and respon-
s;b;ritv ID the other and they both
certainly owe something to the con-
sinners potential and actual. It may
u long time coming, but if this con
times and costly industrial strife does
not cease something is going to hap
nen Who knows; we may end up
with Lenin or we may go the other
wav and set up Mussolini.
Employer and Employee
# 4 particularly important now, that
we are beginning to expand CONNER
ciaIv that Negro business men and
generations give some thought and at
tention TO their employees as well as
nrofts. Satisfied employees are the
foundation pillars Of profits and
stable growing business.
Il is nv experience that Negro en-
blowers, as a group, have paid no at
tenton at all to this most important
phase of business development. In the
FIRST place Negro employers have not
learned Yet, that nothing takes the
place Of real money as the reward for
efficient service. They haven't learned
that a worker will not be efficient un-
less he is contented He will not be
contented unless he is paid adequately,
regularly and PROMPTLY. There
are far too many Negro business men
who feel that they have done the en-
ployee a favor when the worker has
been handed his pay envelope on time
for the full amount. | have known
Negro business men to brag Justify
over the fact that they met their pay
roll promptly each week.
1t seems to me, also, that there is a
large group Of Negro business men
who deliberately refuse to employ the
more intelligent and better trained
young men and women of our race.
Even where trained men are hired they
are usually cramped and not allowed
to make experiments that are abso-
lutely necessary for the growth OF the
business and of the man. 1t is not
enough for these employers to reply
that these young men and women are
inexperienced and that they have
wild" ideas. OF course, they are in
experienced What man, old or young,
fresh from an engineering school or a
medical school or a business school is
not inexperienced?
Young white men are inexperienced
and filed with wild" ideas, and yet,
ten, fifteen or twenty years later they
are at the head Of the business. About
the only way for a young Negro to
become president of the corporation
Is to 60 out and set up his own BUSH
ness The older Negroes at the head
OF our businesses just don't seem to
get the point at all.
We have never produced man OF
the type Of Edison. 1t isn't because
We have no potential Edisons. It isn't
due to innate mental poverty. We
have as much inherent mental capacity
as any other race. This seems to be
true from the unbiased Investigations
Of competent scientists. The reason
hes in one of our peculiar men
tai twists. It will be remembered that
Edison Is and was a genius at invent
ing and devising new machines and APP
planes. Some of these inventions call
tor very intricate mathematical calcu-
Anons and certain knowledge of alb
struse technical procedure. Edison did
not and does not now have the neces-
sary theoretical equipment to make
many OF these calculations and expert
ments. But he did have sense and fore
sight enough to comb the colleges and
technical schools for the brightest and
Oest trained young men. It was they
VINO supplemented his inherent genius