| Show THE MAN AND THE MACHINE Ono One of the t e Impelling questions forced on cn n public attention by the th recent strike in the PIttsburg steel mills Is this Are the men to be considered and Treated as machines And the answer to It itI I the Interest of thoughtful r ft tr and women all over oyer the country The Th proprietors of those mills made madea a fixed appropriation for tor each depart IT of their mills So much money for tor BO 51 wh h product t The effect of ot It was i that labor became Identified hi lu class claes with the Insensible metals that had been Into rolls roUs and trip hammers and furnaces And that Is not a 8 good way wa ay to con consider consider consider sider men The effect of ot the strike Is Isto to t compel a different estImate The men wll wm have haye to be rated as human beings It la Is difficult to understand under tand the fatu tatu cus view which permits employers to coun oun flesh and blood as ae in the same class lass with machinery Back of ot the ma m t with which w their millions are em emI I oed are the factors with which those mill ins work The machines they can 1 rk and leave leeve at night or can turn them thern over oer from one shift to another Th machinery will wUl not think It will r t leave the place It may wear out or r break down hut but it will not of ot its orn ci volition do anything W th men it la is different B Because ulIe they are men they will think The better they the are the more they will th II k The more they think the more i hue they are Not merely to their for the moment moments but to the great States State in which they have b brie BPI me a political part Wise Ws owners of ot mills will treat their c as men They may ma not do it fl of o their t ir love for employee but buty ht y v will ill being wise do it because it Is f t their own Interests Workmen wisely harried make better citizens than work cn abused abu ed Better citizens make for fort forth t th permanence of investments Give the run a share In the profits of the establishment and they become fici fitI b yond ond the limits of ot the payroll I them lUll fas machines and they be beC ber beTIt i C TT TIt r ard nn remain less than machines Tlc Tic p g go i backward In citizenship and andin andin andin in v rth to the capital that employs ther T n vl wm be a Md ad day clay for the United Fa Pats s when labor is put in the same iame me meca ca CItry with wood and It will be JL a b better day for tor capi capital capital tal tat Then hen it comes to recognise r their T as human beh eJ of present r v cr and of tremendous potentiality ty te |
