Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war DAWN OF THE NEW ORDER relations between employer and employee based on sound human ethics replacing dahne of 0 orca Is the Only Hope article by FRANK COMERFORD COMER FOnD the new order Is coming tito tho world must prepare for it tito the people demand it those aho bo vho oppose any clin chango ligo must surrender to the inn bority america should bo be tho the first country to recognize the need of it a tito tho building of tile the new nelv order Oli Ur should be done with tho the heads and by the hands of nil classes collective bargaining and profit sharing will lie ile part of the new order it lie business men of america do riot not operate cooperate co to bring about collective bargaining and profit tile people will resort to force charles A SI schwab chairman of the hoferd of directors of tile steel corporation Is a captain of industry with vision lie ile Is ft a forward american he believes that the iho basis of big business must ile bo bounded on sound human ethics ethic the ille other illy day lie ho lilt hit uio tho nall nail on oil the head when lie he said what tile the working men want Is recognition appreciation find fellowship it Is tho the duty of every business busina ss man in tile the united states to seo see to it that tho the largest possible opportunity for employment Is given the greatest number of men through personal relationships and tho the tone of the business established on these principles uio tile rank and file of wen men will come to know the spirit of the management anil and thero there will be no question of tho the loyalty of I 1 the lie men inen to the alie management the kind of collective bargaining that I 1 believe in Is tile tho one that recognizes the right of tile men themselves to choose their own fellow workmen ns as representatives to speak with tile the company and which believes in the obligation of the comp liaw to treat these representatives individually and collectively with tile tho confidence and respect to which they are justly entitled tho the working men roust must not be made tho the staves slaves of business they must be made part of it Poll political freedom liberty under tho the law are robbed of their meaning if men are enslaved by their work it Is not enough to make a man tree free before tho the law ho he must bo be safo safe and freo free in his work there lg Is a difference between political freedom and industrial freedom men are entitled to both forms forma of freedom one thought Is uppermost and almost universal in tile tho minds of the working men of the world and that Is that they have not had find it square deal I 1 agree with lilt thern hem the evidence supporting their thought Is overwhelming men alen who give their lives to work have a positive right to a voice in the management of tile tho business this right must bo be recognized working men know that until they lire fire given it a voice their interests will bo be without a spokesman and ns as a n consequence will be neglected it a question only of wages or hours of employment the ni titter goes deeper men blen want tile the pleasure and satisfaction of being part of the ho business they have been only part of the business in ili tho the sense that they sweat for it find give their lives to it partnership to Is the solution labor and capital should sheild be a partnership ner ship the two are like the ho blades of a scissors I 1 separate sp and apart they tire are meaningless and valueless joined together functioning they are useful find and necessary to the world this partnership idea must bo be put into practice the product of tile the partnership must be more fairly divided there Is no gainsaying gain saying tile fact hat fiat distribution lins has been entirely la in tile the hands of tile the employers employer 9 and they have been selfish and tile tho workers have lave buffered As president put it to me one day here we havo have a alio of gold und a few people in ill possession of it wasting it to their own injury and to tile tho detriment of the world while over here we have tile tho ninny living in wretchedness and fear everywhere in europe I 1 found progressive public men end and for ward looking men of big admitting that tho the working wan mun has riot not had a square deal there was a tiny in the world when usury was not considered it social or legal crime money aloney lenders hirs insisted isted they had a right tp to lonn loan their mone money y at anny J rate ate of interest the borrower as willing to pay they justified taking ifil ting advantage of tho borrowers necessity by arguing it was part of the ho right of private cont contract met when saner minds urged that the state had bad nn an interest that the public welfare was affected by the lender leader exacting the last pound of flesh a great cry went up that the sacred right of private contract was being invaded that the liberty of mans relation with man was being violated yet the laws against usury came find and they have remained these laws insist that a lender shall chall be limited la in the amount lo he 10 receives na as interest on his hl loans today everyone concedes the morality tho the humanity and the justice of the usury laws public welfare at stake men alen investing money in ili business injure tile tho public welfare when they profiteer teer wo we cull call it robbing the consumer su iller how much greater tin the lar tny reny when han the excess profits come from the sweat ot tho the producers produce ral I 1 Ilits iness should ba honestly tito tho capital stock of the corporation should represent repe sent woney money actually invested the investors tire are entitled to a reason reasonable ablo interest on oil their investments to nn an insurance against the rainy illy ilay they tire are entitled to set bet aside a percentage of the earnings to replace tile tho capital invested after this la Is done tile the balance belongs to tile workers worker into tile hLis business iness they thiry have put their lives out of the hie business ss they get mere than a living UK their alv ihas ci are lived I 1 in I 1 their work they have a right to a say in their own lives no ono that I 1 have mot met lifts has the plans and specifications for the new order but everyone pc rono has fins in fit wind mind tile tho general outline the government tho 11 working men and tho the employers should co onerato in fit making tho the plan pla n in building tile the tomorrow A step in tile right direction Is tho industrial conference recently called by the ho president in ili the ho preliminary statement of this conference we vo find much cause for hope they have pro dented it n plan looking to the settlement of industrial disputes by abbl tr ration atlon tito plan la Is tenta tentative tivo tit in form the framework for tho completed structure it contemplates tho the establishment lishin lish ment ent of n national industrial court of nine members located in washington with the functions of a court of appeals to determine disputes referred to it tito country Is divided into regions with reg regional lonni boards of inquiry and adjustment to which may bo be submitted controversies between bet u employers and employees employee 4 for se settlement t 0 e tho the chairmen of ills dis mutants will have lave equal representation on tile tho board to insure confidence in ili tho the boards the members are to be picked from panels of employers and employees submitted by the secretary of commerce and tho the secretary of labor similar to jury panels prepared for tile tho courts kach bach side shall ile bo entitled to a Epe specific clile number of challenges and tho the verdicts of the industrial juries must bo be by unanimous vote for the justice of right it Is not compulsory arbitration it Is a n plan by which employers and employees may settle their differences on merit rather than by force it has an advantage over the settlement of industrial disputes by tho the strike tn in that hn production will not bo be stopped class hato hate will not be developed the justice of right rather than the force of might will settle quest questions ioni this machinery will give public opinion a chance to act intelligently and ef effee fet dively ali ely an interesting paragraph rends whenever an agreement Is reached by the he parties to a dispute or a determination mi nation Is announced by a regional board of adjustment or by an umpire or by tho the national industrial tribunal tile lie agreement shall lieve lave the full force and effect of a trade agreement which the parties to tile the dispute are bound to carry out wo we are faring facing the cast tito the new flay day Is breaking A better understanding between employers and employees Is ili n sight let no one stand in ili tile kiy way of compromise and concession to avoid entangling alliances it Is not necessary to abandon surope europe to put an end to war some open agreement of nations Is necessary secret treaties treat lei must cease tile the new internationalism roust must be a covenant insuring tho the democracy of the world americas place la Is in tile the vanguard of tile movement toward the new order we are n world power wo we cannot escape our place and our responsibility in tile tho family of nations I 1 nm am sure wo we do not want to our foreign policy biolley Is america for americana and all for humanity the creed of our house Is man alan Is III HIA brothers keeper copyright 1926 1920 western now pa union the real london air working upon london smoke creates the real london the rent real london Is not a city of uniform brightness like paris it Is a picture lie continually changing ft a continual sequence of pictures and there 19 no BO knowing what dinean inona street corner may not suddenly take on oil a glory not its lt own the english mist Is always at work like a subtle painter and lon don Is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to fo work on the inte especial beauty of nt london la Is tile tho thames and the thames Is so BO wonderful because the mist Is always changing its shapes and colors always making its light mysterious and building palaces of 0 cloud out of mere parliament houses with angs and turrets when the mist collaborates with alth night and rain the masterpiece Is created arthur Syl H lions |