| Show CAPITAL CAPITA rant fANt AN L ABOR LABOR mk eiland elland chand EMPLOYED throughout the world sherela the there reis rela is a struggle fur for power and supremacy between capital and labor capital seeks to have labor helplessly in its p power ower tied hand and foot so to speak and entirely subservient to its will labor strives to retaliate when circumstances offer opportunity by attempting to force capital to hire it at its own terms capital endeavors to tyrannize over labor to grind labor down and compel it to feed an insatiable desire for increase it is ig haughty driving coler coercive and unjust when the demand for labor is less han tb supply and Aud labor to find an equality resort to every means in its power powen to successfully combat capital this id is the condition of capital and labor abor in the world of course there are exception 1 sand in some places it is worse thanin than in others but wherever rever reter large mas lesof ses ees of human beings are collected together to reside and and labor there capital strives to lord it over labor to fatten on chevoor the Che poor to grind and oppress the toiling bone and sinew that feeds its intolerable craving draving for wealth and labor act acts ohp hypocrite to capital is an ser ber does ib the e least po possible amount of work in the longest given time and seek beek ia to be e ren fen with capital in a struggle of mutual dishonesty A r result efthia orthis is class combinations capitala Capi capitalists tall tail dav iki unite together to make terms for the laborer borer ia workmen Wor kinen form societies and V demand terms from tile the employer emp loyar and as the labor labok market is ft glutted or depleted so is a th the power to impose terms beld held by th the e 60 combination t of capital ortha or the ao combination efla of labor bor class feelings have thus been engendered d and though living with and for each other so to sp speak eakin in many places employers and employed each other with the most bitter hatred but the capi taTIA t has ah an advantage over the laborer which makes the contest unequal and the latter in nearly every instance is compelled to yield to the former where an issue is la directly raised as in the case of strikes of workmen the capitalist capit aliat can live without the work labor labori 1 la in I anost cases until h he e oaut part starve labor to his terms and workmen are proverbially proverb lally improvident when labor commands a high price in 11 the 1 arieto market they too often spend their means aa nast fast a 4 they earn earu it without savings wadu tha they could keep them selves poor pooi anyplace and place themselves at the merey mercy of the capitalist whom they hate bate yet have to serve sarve the feelings which exist in many parts of britain and in some parts of the Eastern states between employers employer and employed emy loyed are incredible ext except ept to those who have een ileen them manifested the terrible results following their operations were recently made public in england before a royal commission sitting in sheffield mr overend presiding to enquire into the outrage outraged perpetrated by trade societies it was proved before that commission that every crime against life and safety murder included had been committed commit teil tell bul bui because cause pause of these class feelings for amounts varying from one pound up jap to fifteen pounds this isa Is a terrible state of society indeed it shows there is is some something think radi radically bally eaily wrong connel connected eted with it it looks like men living upon the lives of ori their fellows playing the tha part of ghouls and fattening upon their corpses this is a condition of things which we have to remedy it is a social evil ehll of N very avery serious character the gospel has to remove the cause of every exist 1 ing to heal up tup the wounds of society to introduce correct feeling brotherly love kindness and charity towards each ibach other other we are looking for ii a day dayi that ia is not far distant when the order of enoch shall be established among the saints when in the words of the lord to enoch the saints shall be equal in bands of heavenly things yea and earthly things thinks also aiso for the t he obtaining of heavenly for if ye are apt equal in earthly things ye cannot be equal ill in obtaining heavenly things el loe loc doc doe and cov gov page employers and employed must learn that the interests interests of sll sill are to an nit extent the interests of each capital must inest deal by labor as it would wish to be done by were the positions and circumstances reversed and labor must learn to the same manner the operative cooperative co principle has been tried successfully in many places it is a combination of capital against capital i and of labor against capital it is a combination against the hirer 0 of labor and against the capital that thrives on the necessities and of labor the workingmen working men put together their small savings and become merchants they put together their skill and labor and become becomes manufacturers the principle has been tested in europe in the east and in th the eWest westi the work ingmen ing men stand in direct relations with the buyer not of labor but of the material produced by labor yet this is not sufficient like many man other excellent plans devised and brought blought into operation in the world it will fall falt short of the object desired unless a different spirit from that of mere self seif interest governs those engaged in it those thus operating cooperating co may hire labor and place themselves in the position of buyers of that which they once had bad to sell and experience teaches that no men are more morO more exacting as a rule than the laborer turned employer A spirit of righteousness and justice should govern employer employ erh erp and employed in their relations with each other the employer should have a fair percentage per for his time skill experience and capital according as they are invested the laborer should have bave a fair per c for his labor jabor and skill if el either elther ther then of these is not done dond there re ia Is a loss on some side andt and theres hefe is injustice in some way the solution of this question by the gospel and byllee ly the saints can be bo accelerated or retarded bythe parties mot most interested te the employers and aud employed if the class clas fee fet feelings links which are entertained elsewhere with such bettt bitterness riad 8 are found to exist here a just and righteous rl 4 7 cotin course bie ble in all things pertaining ito tto willibe will be more difficult to reach theilan 0 oren ren will be un tin eye hier tier xer ver and the employer willibe i unduly lex tex exacting acting 1 ifa I f idego I 1 re to dd dt deright hight 41 right pre vails valls if ohe the can treat areah the rm aloyed iash bresli brethren ren ten 1 in I f naba the dospel sospel anh and ban his hib er in the same light ligh each studying the interests of the other the day is not far distant when thelast the last vestige of class feeling will disappear and injustice and equity govern every relation between labor lator and capital among all latter day saints 1 s i |
