Show LJ s I. I A A SERIOUS PROBLEM i r J I I r.- r. 2 journal printed in inI The Thc Survey a I t. t l New Y York or more espe especially for or social workers is noted for or its radical opinions I ions and for the defense of in our midst Certainly one no-one would think of calling callin the he Survey Survoy S f conservative t I Yet we read in that journal a letter letter letter let let- written by workingman working working- a V ter evidently y man man- manone man one who thinks even if he 1 t does docs oes not think straight according to educated standards standards denouncing denouncing the 11 radical Survey as an organ of the exploiters exploiters ex ex- of cuta cutting cut cut- cutting talks a r of labor He r ting to the ground the thing that he declares is the cause of all our trouble trout trou trou- t it ble ble capital He would totally change the economic system upon which our civilization rests Of course with without without out sa saying ing it he is for the he Bolf vici vice s system His name is Butler so nobody can sweep him aside as s anner arc uan foreigner ner y Though not a I er he is undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- t ign ignorant rant and he breathe breathes the sentim sentiment nt that so many of our working people hold day to-day day to without being 1 What hat do does doe 3 A it i. i all nil mean mem Does it mean that the civili we have built up during 2000 WOO years i i is to be thrown into discard Does Docs it mean that people who are arc incompetent in to toy y think except through such educated hypocrites as Lenine and Haywood are arc to overturn the progress of centuries centuries cen cen- tunes and throw us ha back into worse t than the middle ages It is a vast-and vast serious problem and those who are c carrying hying forward k- k progress by evolution v lutio I may y well weIl be- be come com alarmed into Attenuate ate action It is not a problem for the rich richand and t. t the he super-educated super alone It is much f more a problem for the he great mass of 1 middle-class middle people of America who wh K work with their hands or their brains f r for a living In considering that problem it may not be amiss to quote Lincoln as follows 41 Labor is prior to and f t ant nt of capital Capital i is s only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if if labor had not first existed Labor is the of and andy superior capital y deserves much the higher consideration consider- consider F n. atio-n. Capital has its rights which j are as worthy of protection as any 1 other rights Nor is it denied that r there is and probably always will be a relation between and capital producing mutual benefits The error error er er- is in assuming that the whole of the community exists within that reI re- re I lation 1 J |