Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
JOURNALIST TALKS
TO BANKERS HERE
Labor to Be Recognized as
Equal Partner, Sir WiIImott
Lewis Predicts.

Depicting the sweeping changes in
social and economic life, Sir Willmott
Lewis told more than 300 bankers and
guests at the annual banquet of the
National Safe Deposit Association at
the Willard Hotel last night that the
future will see labor recognized as an
equal partner with capital and man
confusion.
Sir Willmott, Washington CORE
spondent OF the London Times, said
. IN overwhelming majority of workers
are now employed in industry; few
0 them have had any real voice tn
the making Of decisions which affect
the terms and continuity Of their en-
ployment, and yet these workers, men
and women, are voters possessing the
political power to compel the enact
ment Of legislation which may pro-
foundly affect every phase of the ma
tlonal life OF their countries. In such
. situation there are factors irrecon-
cilable with the orderly continuity of
democratic conditions.
1t has been remarked in Great
Britain, the speaker added, that an
increase OF governmental action has
Invariably been accompanied, at a
slightly later date, by an increase in
voluntary cooperation in the same
sphere. The fact, for it is a fact,
should be source of comfort to
those who today are gloomy and i'm
patient, he said.
The subject of Sir Willmotts ad-
dress was To-day" He declared the
basic principles of human society
change but little. but the conditions
under which these principles must
apply always have been subject to
change, and in the past century and
half have been altered with a speed
and range of effect without parallel
In history.
Points to Changes.
Sir Willmott pointed out that the
last century and q half has seen 4
social transformation Of the Western
World, and Of some Of the Orient. He
said this has been wrought chiefly
by the introduction into life Of the
industrial system, which means the
use OF power other than manual for
manufacturing on q large scale; by
the stimulus to growth In population
which this system encouraged, and by
the greater mobility OF population
which improved machinery and trans
portation methods have made possible.
Sir Willmott called attention to
some OF the economic changes which
have take place, and took up the po-
HticAl developments which he said
slowly but surely follow economic
change. The number Of town dwell
ers has increased out Of all proper
ton to the rural population, one func-
ton after another being organized
for the benefit Of the collective forces
Of the group.
THE predominance OF the capital
st over the worker" Sir Willmott
said, has been enlarged by the con-
solidation OF industrial enterprises
into larger and larger aggregates. As
. result the proportion Of recipients
OF mere wage or salary among the
workers Of all modernized countries
has steadily increased, while that of
the workers who own the product of
their labor or who participate In the
prof1t derived from its sale, has
steadily diminished The change has
been admirably described by the
Webbs. What may be called the
atomic view OF human society has
been replaced by a more organic
conception.
Use Of "Doles'
ITO say that 'doles' and public as
sistance should or must be made a
substitute for what the individual can
effectively procure by his own exer-
tons, is to misunderstood the posi-
ton. When the community accepts a
corporate responsibility for the initia-