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Show I- . Agents Of Anarchy flj fcn ABOR has dreams of sharing in the profits of business by taking "1 JL control of business and undoubtedly the evolution which we see If in progress all over the civilized world will culminate in astonishing II transformations. But labor must rid itself of a deep-seated disease In, ie neart before it can ever engage in those forms of co-operation " it now plans. In a spirit of amity labor and capital can achieve prod- H igies for the benefit of humankind, but if the workingmen continue I their "hymns of hate," under the direction of foreign agitators, in- f dustry will have a setback from which it will not recover in many I years. The very word co-operation indicates friendliness, but the toilers of the land are working themselves into a frame of mind which I kJyiN make friendly relations with capital impossible and defer the day V of genuinely productive co-operation. I In Chicago, for example, the Federation of Labor, has indorsed a P general strike called for April 1, the date of the municipal election, 1 and in formulating its statement it declared that the workmen wQuld CI t "take a day off in making profits 'f?r the bosses." jji This was a gratuitous insult of a peculiarly stupid kind. It was meant to be ill-natured and insolent. It was generated in a venomous M hatred that will produce nothing but cumulative harm. The world M has just finished with a terrible war a'nd everybody has vowed sol- M emnly that wars shall cease, that men shall form leagues of nations H in a spirit of love and shall co-operate for the general good of man- M kind. But already a new war has begun in Bolshevism, in strikes and M in the hurling of injurious words. H The notion that profit is something an employer putb in his M pocket and keeps there is so fantastic that one would hardly expect M intelligent American workmen to entertain it. Profits are reinvested M in business and produce increased work and wages for workingmen. H If the "bosses" made no profit there would be no expansion of busi- M ness, it is by means of business expansion that increasing population M is afforded a satisfactory livelihood. H When the workers take control of business as they plan, when M they become bosses they will understand how essential it is in the M scheme of industry to have profits. The Bolsheviki took charge of M the factories in Russia and, so far from obtaining any profits, they M SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 21, 1919. H |