Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-17 | Page 11 | Capital and Labor Goals

r H r Cap Capital t l ari and Labor r G Goals ls i T i iI 1 A 5 5 5 rS I g. g COME OME of the iH things n s we do 5 1 look k a av alot S lot loti of t. t i different t to us if we could only loo look at ati t- t i fh th them m th the way vaY 9 our 1 great grandchildren r a will vill some ome day t f r t Thomas E E. E Mitten Ph Philadelphia l delphia traction n magnate leaves the Ue bulk of his his I Restate state estate to set up a fund to the r rela- rela la ns beh behe between e capitI f an anti and labor Right now nv lv that looks like i a. a very ci praiseworthy w p Df Spirited adio action A A. A cent century rY fron it-is it very probable that such suck a thing would be con con- on 0 I merely quaint S Which is to say that times times' are changing Among Among alt all the ph phenomena of p pr present day es e day lt-day t day If life there probably isn't one that Hiat- will s seem em n more 1 s strange range and seris senseless less to o oth our descendants thant than t the thc that we describe ith two wo words word labor Jabor trouble T S Capital and arid la labor pr are two peculiar words the thc way we we use them W are We just beginning beginning begin- begin ning to surmise th that J these words do not represent rep- rep resent r di diametrically n etric lly c opposite f forces fated to strive for diametrically opposite goals in- in in indeed indeed I deed dee j these unborn great-grandchildren great of ours OUS eventually v lIy decide that our greatest S contribution to civilization was our halting hatting long Iong d delayed I 1 sO somewhat confused discovery that he aims alms of capital a and d labor are basically basically basic basic- ally any any- identical S Years YeaTs ago when the factory system w yas s giving the world something new in n the w way y of pf st stupidity pid ty g greed ee al and d oppre oppression it was vas generally generally geu- geu gen gen- agreed that the working workingman man and the employer were bound to be en enemies Some Inen men inen like Marx urged the worker to 10 nize this and declare war to the death oth others rs that hat the worker c could u d not c conceivably li better r himself and nd that he might as well make make- the best by accepting such uch thin thinS S tri trickles kl s' s of prosperity as might s seep ep down from ro n time to time from the the upper strata strat fJ oiS of oi S I society S Remnants o of that notion are still with us In Indeed e many peo people l do not see seem fo to realize reaUze that hat that theory has has' been exploded once and for all aUt 89 So it i iS is that an intelligent social- social 11 minded 4 manlike e Mr Mitten itten felt Ui the need of his fortune to the t task sk of reconciling It these two two opposing forces forced M Meanwhile what has lus been happening r Si Simply this thi the progress of industrialism h hiS has s' s slowly b been en making it app apparent rent that the work working ing man an and nd the employer yer r are seeking the tIC s 's that t. t bot both l profit most as they aid Id Ide e c Bother ther There should not not fundamentally b be any ny conflict between them What helps one helps both what is bad for one is bad S hl tb S S Sc c Thus far we e ha have ve barely got more than thui 1 l. l glimmering ing of of U this i But the the next li hundred d years will seethe the idea carried earned forward foward ini am i iri ly It IL is s quite absurd to 10 suppose suppose- tl Ul t strikes S lockouts loc outs furious furious' chall challenges and ulti- ulti wasteful ad ij crippling to all con con- concerned will be b tolerated d' d by a an i industrialism d S that once unde understands its us true functions Th There re will v lI b ber a day day not not so far distant tl either w when en n no one will dream of leaving to Io o improve rel relations between c capital C it l ld d f jt g f Jt t SI simply v P fC Y vont I T t s r be n necessary s c v Jt U c s a. a S Sr t r t 1 f