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Such a condition should be met by directing our efforts towards improving living conditions, towards making the condition such that the workers will not be tempted by radicalism. The worker's interest in his occupation should be stimulated. To successfully meet the labor problem, we must take account of the working man's philosophy and ideals; we must consider the rights of others and their point of view. We must not regard laborers as being a different class of people who must trust in the sagacity of their employers. The policy of paternalism is resented by the employees We must...
...admitted in larger numbers than those who are difficult to Americanize. This plan deserves consideration. We know that it would tend to admit those immigrants that we desire and keep out these whom we do not. He also suggests that we admit more immigrants at times when we need labor than in times when labor is plenteous, but this idea seems filled with many objections. Great confusion would result. It would work hardships on the immigrants. Labor conditions are apt to be parallel in different countries, and at times when we most needed them they would not want to come...
...question is a knotty one. We want cheap labor without its accompanying conditions. We want to eat our cake and keep it, too. A prompt decision is imperative
Ever since the demands of the war forced the importance of Labor up to its highest peak, there has been an increasing tendency on the part of the Unions to take an unfair, advantage of their newly-gained position. Strikes, counterstrikes, sympathies, general walkouts, many of them without cause, have successively paralyzed or threatened to do so, the industrial heart of the country. In some cases, indeed, in many, the strikes have been justified for it is but right and progressive that the working man should share in some way the responsibility and success of his labors...
...great mass of the Unions-it is for them to say that this thing has gone far enough, and must stop. It is for them to make sure that the public, which is already sick of strikes whose names are legion, does not, because of the actions of labor leaders, turn its back with disgust on the whole question of labor's demands, be they fair or otherwise. Whether the men have strength and will enough to censure these "walking delegates" and demagogues, is for them alone to decide. But they must decide, and they must act-and that quickly...