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Show WHAT IS THE REMEDY?' J yT An English Paper Asks Some Leading 1 Questions . , J New York, July 1S.-?A dispatch from London says: Referring to ti-e Homestead' troubles the Times and Echo, the , leading organ of the tvade unionists and working classes generally, says that the only, remedy ; for the present condition of affairs throughout through-out the labor world is the substitution, of national corporations for capitalistic eompe. tition. Mere private combinations being the employees on one hand, and trade unions of workmen on the other, will never, do any real good. They have done some good-trades good-trades unions especially, but at their best they are but armed bodies waging war, aud all war ia immoral, wasteful and pernicious. There must be in the near future, national! co-operation, for the acquisition and j1 opment and direction of all indK. t.-i I which only the workers shall have .--au share, and in which there shall be no temptation temp-tation to make unfair profits, because all profits will be shared by the workers alike. Competition, he says, is crushing the life; out of labor, and yet strangely enough the employers grow richer and richer, ana praise t competition as full of all sorts of blessings. The paper goes, on in this radical strain: "Competition has long ceased to. be. the struggle for the survival of the fittest; it i now simply a battle of the strongest and most unscrupulous, and in this battle those who are the most reckless in their adulterations, adultera-tions, in their misrepresentations to buyers, in their oppression of their workmen, in their fraudulent appropriation of capital, must win if they have ordinary business capacity ca-pacity and energy. They do win everywhere. every-where. There is little or no honest trading in England today. There is little or no hon-" est work dose, because the emplo3-cr has handicapped the worker so thoroughly, taught him Uie art of making things seem what is wanted and not to be such, that the art of doing really honest work is half forgotten. for-gotten. Meanwhile the great capitalists) grow richer year by year. , The small ma-; ters are crushed out everywhere, and so, few teachers are left of the arts and crafts. The large employer runs three or four or a dozen businesses, each superintended by managers who are bullied if the yearly rate of pront is not maintained, and who are consequently careless of every other condition. Pharoah is in his palace, drowned in the sensual enjoyment en-joyment of the vast tribute of the slaves he never sees. The taskmasters are the bond-thralls' bond-thralls' only embodiment of true raas-terhood. raas-terhood. If this horrible condition of things to which we have come continues.and grows in evil intensity, as grow it must, there is no possible end of it all but national decay, preceded probably by fearful scenes of revolutionary rev-olutionary violence. What is the remedy?" |