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Show Trade Unionism an ; Agency of Progress Since the war other nations repeatedly repeat-edly bave sent delegations to the United States to try to discover why America Is so much more prosperous than the rest of the world. There seem to be an Impression there is some magic secret about It all. If the secret could only be discovered It could be applied In Europe with transforming trans-forming consequences. There 1 no such secret, of course. But Labor day may well serve to call the attention here at home to the factors fac-tors that have made for the progress that In the Inst quarter century has nearly doubled tbe output of each worker. There has been a great development In machinery, In labor-saving devices. In the elimination of waste, In more efficient organization. The accumulation accumula-tion of capital has made possible the extensive use of machinery. Immlgra tlon restriction hns been an Incentive to the mechanization of the furm and of Industry generally, and has helped to maintain tho American standards of living. Contributing to these factors and In some measure underlying them all has been the Intelligent co-operation between be-tween worker and managers which characterizes American Industry. Tit advantages of this co-operation appear In the contrast with conditions In Eng land, where profound distrust and suspicion sus-picion exist. In England labor has often opposed the Introduction of labor-saving devices de-vices because It hua believed It would be given no share In the profits arising aris-ing from the . suiting economies. In America a more enlightened spirit hs prevailed. Lubor generally has shared In the profits ot Increased production. The co-operation between employers end employees In this country ba been a source of wonder to visitors from abroad. America's Industrial problem are not all solved by any means. There I still Irregularity of employment that ought to be lessened. But no oue can review the events of the last 2A years and contrast conditions now witb those at the opening of the century without realizing the enormous progress prog-ress that has been made In standards of living throughout the homes of America. The condition of the aver age man Is Improving decade by decadeChicago dec-adeChicago Dully New. |