| Show rl n i t H n 5 YOUTH VS AGE AU IN LABOR PROBLEM l II III 1 I J JI I I I How blow w Young Youna Mon Aro Arc Crowding tho o Old Competition on Every EvolY Hl 8 Over Overrules c crules 2 rules Sentiment E S j J i nn n n n r n n n n e n r n n n I t n W u In n N Help yr York Utter letter under data datt of or Sunday fiu Jut lait H nty George Jr sun son of ot the tamo labor tabor leader Later of or the same acme me nano nosy noty writes ai as follows F A few dupe days ago ngo I 1 pond had a II talk tal with lIh lr V Sidney of or Bingham England t on art conditions In this Ih i coin coun country t try anti and In Great Groat Britain Mr Ir Walker Walk r rIs Is 19 u tt keen alett In the early nr well educated IdL and r ry y traveled who In a 11 directors capacity U II y r With lh several large lam manufacturing rj turing and Institutions In En Eng Enat land who Tho U L I associated with his IIII V If Walker In ht the man mau y of or n It Walker skip ship log Invented try liy Ui father of the tha latter rind and the i j i Grandfather her of or the former gentleman T P Sidney Walker Is le I extremely liberal in his Dlf views and returning to 10 England f on the Nine Mine ship with J Mor Mot MorI I r elan and Andrew Carnegie arne Ie he Ito carried a fund of ot Information about American Amr jit Industrial conditions that flat would b W be most moat mo I IJ J to compare with willi that pos Jos seed by the more widely known men menCO CO OK OF CONDITIONS CONDITIO iJ f t r tr Walker talked to 10 mo rho somewhat t ti i freely about hit hla hi observations and thu thuI I Impressions he lie obtained during H K months tour lour of ot Inspection through the t It larger er cities train from Button to Chicago That most moat Interested me m was It I his hll J comparison of ot the th tone tense len conditions of ot here with conditions on his hla side aide of ot til tM the water Thu conversation wan WIlli desultory but hut what he said Mid Inns Wai In substance thin I 1 have hoo been IMn amazed at the great grant number of ot young men mell I have found I employed in your oUr manufacturing plants Plante The proportion to old ohl men everywhere sc rc ma entirely out of ot proportion to tu that which I w leh exists On en our side aide of or tho the wean indeed In let one might Judge jull that there them were no more old men In lit some come of ot the linen of ot In tile this country One of or the tho large e concerns that I visit frt tda edra a very cr large Urge establishment In New Nell e eme ms to 10 employ only young i man that Is Ia no men old older r than 36 30 They wore nil In their highest pro productive productive t power I had crone come over oer here hereto lo to look about find and especially to look Into Ito the tho conditions of or Industrial rompe for I wanted to rev pee In v what h t r rae s fot Vio We have advantage over you ou and where the th advantage Is le against us ue Hence this matter of ot age of or the work werk workmen I men 2100 m n was one Tn III that I took note of from the n I OLD lIIm In one of or the large e manufacturing 1 concerns concerns where I noticed this thie great grent preponderance J of or young oung men I turned turne l t tb tho gentleman who w woo 11 s conducting h me me about mid and said Bald slow How U la It that I r see eee seey y to ao many young oung men Are Arc Ihre no old uld men br ur It Is that workmen here hont do not nul y r old The gentleman said Bald Oh s men grow old ohl here but hut we keep 2 the younger men employed We tho thu workmen after arter they pass their Prime In that WilY way we WC K get U t the maxi t mum of or out of or our labor I Hut But I said Bald have hn you rue no nu senti r went ment about aboul the tha thing How can you OU i turn a n man off Just because h he gets old My Illy I conductor replied There Is no noI t I I about It II It Is purely a n nat mat 1 t l r of ot hu We have to buy labor labori l So i r we buy the l 1 beet st lt we can cnn get gel Irre s i of ot Individuals Toting Toun men are more than older ones once so we select elect young one once out oUI or of tho the great creal num f lier lor that offer their Sentiment I It la gaud 1111 In lis In place Illaca but It has hae no place I with business It Is le to our Into IntermIt Interest rest to 10 j I f get uti the most mOlt alert most moil moat agile and moat adaptive labor Jabor There Is U n a strong n among amonE i workmen for tor employment So R that ae e et eI t I hove hire no In following the line I 1 i of 01 our aliI highest Interest and choosing u young men mell Y I h I observed ob er that Ihal Is IB hard on the tho man mall who passes pole hIs promo 1 Ills His reply was that thaI It was hard hardAS Jf AS TO 10 HAD FAITH lAITH You Tou sec nee I continued 1 the I j liOns with us S lira are very er different A t great number of at the manufacturing concerns 1 I lIh Us ua art are of ot old standing handed n down from father tal her to son eon n as ac It were wel f l all nil the other concerns are aret t I governed by b the of ot the older ea el I i 1 Now Noll nI I receive a J b s from my fatter father r It 11 Is quite Im Impossible t possible for tor me to discharge the old od hands Who have hae served nerved my 10 father rather faithfully Inee they were very ery young men rn n They The cane camp along with the butt bual new to me and It would woul 1 he be against the strongest est sentiment to 10 threw any of or the reasonably serviceable workmen out of or employment there therl for tor the mere mert reason rellon I I lint they had hud ceased to be he young men I 1 Ir r plum M deem Buch auch a II performance an act f of ot bail faith a breach of or duty dirty dul not that any nn compact ex I sis compelling mo me m to continue the employment of ot men man i after they thoy had passel the meridian of ot d y young ung manhood but that sentiment a and a tacit obligation to deal fair with th the men who have hll given us faithful a t service urlce Interposes and prevents us ua 18 from 11 1 costing casting off ort as n If It they were utter stran atran strangers lars gers and had no claim upon us for tor rear rea conable and protection I 1 I Pointed feinted nil 1111 this out to my comPanion com Panion Ills Hig only observation wet was that from tho the American manufacturers point of t view Io the obligation to lo continuo continue to employ workmen workman after utter they hal hail be begun begun gun lo to decline In tower powers handicapped han the th m manufacturer In hit him mm milt I petition with the American ture who ko neither felt relt nor reco re d l I i BUth an on obligation t j It IS I t Mr Walker told me Ine this tory story with merit fat ling and then told I red as at to tu the element of la bur bor alone lion anti and without regard to 10 die th other factors factor in production this gener general ener al fact tle that the th manufacturer In lit this thus country with whom we hate to compete n 1 much larger proportion of at men nt It the Ille maximum of or their powers than we vt employ el ploy tells tella heavily he vII against u UI ue stud In your favor for tor trade Wo We hold to a that continue I men in our employ so ao 1011 HI as It they r reasonably no nu mutter what their age II it Your manufacturers manufacturer mate altogether and ud turn lurn the workman out after he has hili used up his he heat t haven causing him to yield his him place ghee to a II new n and lo man malt who WIIO when whon lie III shall fall tAli to 10 keep the high pact i must mUll In ht turn make way for tor another nun nan This Is le u Ii dreadful uw use of or men melt but tut It 1 makes you ou deadly d competitors competitor In ht the tho manufacturing line other thins things being equAl It puts put our manu manufacturers manufactures at n great rent disadvantage What Mr Walkr about bout lira tilt 1111 advantage of or the manufacturers manufacturer as ag II compared with American tunes Is la true enough but hut what about the tho laborers What hat about aboul the and American laborers the American laborer II It to com coin competitive conditions condition for tor employment about which the laborers know nothing Here lure cold coll hard bard money get Zing ting desire manufacturers or at al least lenat tine the larger larler who strive against manufactures for tor trade tralle to disregard all emotions of ot th the heart and antI to buy the highest t Uy sty of at labor just mat ns ua they the would buy huy the thu highest quality of pig JIll Iron DYED HAm TO ro HOLD JOn JOnI JC ll I know a n master paper hunger hanger a man Inon manso so 10 skilled and exhibiting such luch taste In hl his da vocation that he lima ratty may 1011 well be celled called m nn artist Moreover he ti it surprisingly ml If more so 10 than most moat paper hang hAn ers ere ar ut of 30 70 although ho its Is past 50 Go Hut But 10 years ur ago his hll hl hair began boan to 10 turn gray He Be dyed It mud kept kelt on dyeing It I 1 am lun a marked man with gray hair It he explained to 10 mo inc That gen gait indicates Indicate waning poster and what Is la wAnted Is the tho workingman at his life Lost beet When his powers begin to lu go gothen gothen gothen then hl bb lob Job jo sues goes I 1 can anti work stork with the time bat r as s to quality and quantity of ot ac BC but the silver touch on Oil my head hood would be ha fatal to my employment There are plenty of ot young men standing about waiting salting to take Inks my place or the place III nee of ot men nun like me and should my see set what Is commonly thought to te bu the sign alga of ot lessening ener energy energy gy Ky I should be quietly dropped and anI n a younger r man would fill till my plane place The change would not nol be hI done lone harshly or rough roughly dy I should simply at md pad some come morning that my may employer had hall found It necessary to 10 lay me mu off ort and then than after I hind had called many times lilacs at nt the shop expecting to him be put on again I should become of the fact tart that the time es us was running handed timid that all the familiar people were Wert nt at work except me that a n new nell man wits working In till lie place I 1 hind hall been aecus toned tamed to nil Bo Sa I 1 dye my In hair heir to re ra resemble that of ot n a young man and I do what hat I iron cnn to 10 hide the lie lines and wrin Ides kle l I must keep the employment for tor I have a n dependent d family PHILOSOPHY OF OP I This Tile Is la not nn rat Imaginative story Many an on old and experienced work man milan can tell of ot similar liar cases ensue coming coining within his own knowledge t and outside of ot the time trade unions they are ure extremely common I t think It woe as Mr tr who WIIO not long ago ngo was WitS reported to 10 have advIsed the management ol of one of or the older oIlier es ee connected with the tile iron Industry to 10 put lut new nets ne energy en Into Its IU business bu by ty discharging the tha old men then and employing young ones unes He lie tenta lively Jy admitted that such tuch an al action might appear Hard and radical but hut he pointed out that such Buch a 1 course was necessary if It the establishment wai lU not nul to 10 tag Ing Ia In trade Of at course s It Is If well known that this title 1 Is In full tull till accord with whit Mr Ir Ho HI does not venture to saw IllY lim holy IloV hi hie views might be e modified it tt o r himself elt were ere differently situated and aM were not 1101 the dispenser of or In starts sum of ot millions and purls ports of ot millions fur for libraries and other oilier public lions Ilona to bear his hll name chiseled in stone or molded In brass upon their e He lie Ignores or nt lit least leant fulls to 10 maKe mention of ot tha the grent great special used need by loy himself and others to 10 Loud up 1111 huge private fortunes He lie persistently l and broadly Intimates that thee thele fortunes are lire due to 10 genius Indus Indu try und anti U thrift M so 0 that the deduction inUit artist be drawn that lat tho the lanai of or men mw are aill left lett i i to 10 struggle In poverty or the tear fear ot of It they have hae not u a 1 like poke amount of ot genius Industry and lUll thrift NA NATURAL TUnAl LAW LAV IA This rereads to 10 US tie 8 his vies Of or the business of ut out the h men m n among the time workers and th the of at the young and anti strong and energetic lIc He fie says that this limit Is 18 not hot n It condition mode made by human Institutions Institution It Is de der creed treed by h law w which law I he In his hll l book ok Tin Th Gospel pel ot of r Wealth says say Yf Jale R 4 may lay be f sometimes Bail ho fur for the Individual but hut It Is it best for tur time the race because It U Insures I res the survival ur of ot the fittest In every How monstrous such Juch a B statement ls la slow How blasphemous to put upon God GOt Al Alu 1 mighty want and nd that are u such prolific begetters begetter of or sin In and crime L Let t any man mn or woman of or common case consider for a moment J ath human humn being comes com s Into the world with Independent physical powers that will enable e him la to satisfy His Ilia wants If It he can but apply hit his labor to nature If It tills this were wew not nol no eo then how have the primitive races racel continued even cen for tor a short period to 10 exist And how have the primitive people advanced 1 to higher stages liege I of social life It II really nail requires only n R slight alight human humin effort to 10 supply the simpler animal nl wI 11 ft D r r o I t ca ur 01 to man How lIow very ery easy PaRY then lien should hould It be to satisfy those wants when many man men amen come com together and end their power Such combining of ot productive should houM and does multiply the remits of production And when n we the stupendous Itu and ond Infinitely complex and ramifying character of ot the ther r nf or labor represented by our modern civilisation we get let a suggestion of the multiplication of ot productive power FROM lance Hence we t 1 must say la If It awn Mil living hiring In the tM most primitive fashion and with the th simplest forms torme of ot coop trilton or lr labor combination can with Ith nature open to them Misty the tM hu human human human man wants that there assert edert elves aehee Is la It U not to 10 suppose 1 that under a 1 similar carer I of oC access ce to nature men mn In thi Ih Infinitely complex eo C i r combination of ot lab if r utilising li l 00 tor lor or what lIat Amounts to II the M same lame me thing thin pro pm duce due multiplying do Ices not tome men Inca but hut men m n find It lo 0 Muir all their animal wants ani and Ind a greet part parr of nf their th lr I un I mind spiritual ual desires Of course In the th advanced ns ne In to th primitive the of ilc dc 01 acre lre depends depend not lint merely upon labor that I la de depends nl nd nut not merely upon the till production of ot the tM thew for It If the she laborer L le robbed rot tl of ot the produce of or his hll labor libor th than n lila hll efforts to the ex foX extent tent of 0 Oje robb ry f 1 go for naught What Is an Rn an act hm nt of or time of ot m is ue It its t lust dle the get gett I IT t 7 r what lin he This ThIll Is a n require requirement ment At nt any an anti every stage In th It of ot a people l colI And this Is l the trouble lIh OUr pre emit civilisation The nines inaBa of ot men or are shut hut off ort tram from nature are closed to them th m oM the they are ant thrown hack b k timid compelled to cum com compete pets pete with their tor for such em ere employment t ut as Is offered Thus the tho young youn mind the old have to go 10 o Into desperate competition with time the lh result that where sentiment where any an aeme of or duty o or does not Mr Walker Wilker found little the Indus Indue Industries ln us tries he h inspected In this Country til older men luel are lit 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