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...theory, but rather the name of a phase of civilization that we are approaching. Today, having passed the phases of feudalism and slavery, we have the capitalistic phase in which the worker is free but still dependent upon capital for employment. While seeking this employment the laborer is forced into the open market and hence is subjected to competition, which makes it possible for the employer to hire his men at starvation wages. Machinery, having done away with the necessity of skilled labor, has complicated the situation...
Moreover, a system of industrial slavery by which the few live off the labor of the many will not be tolerated by its victims when once they shake off that unquestioning acceptance of established social institutions; nor should any one with any ideals of fairness and justice seek to justify it. G. J. SHOHOLM...
...most radical experiments in New Zealand has been in the handling of strikes. The government has the power to declare all strikes illegal and has divided the country up into industrial districts, each in charge of a Conciliation Board, which acts as a court for all labor disputes, subject to the final decision of the Arbitration Court. The success of this idea has been varied according to conditions...
...Smolev '15, the winner of the Pasteur Medal, showed how labor conditions in France are especially peculiar. The mass of government employees can not be held responsible for the serious strikes of the last decade, but rather a small body of men who openly declare their revolutionary sentiments and who are in a position to force a strike. Of course the ideal way to deal with the strike problem would be to get rid of these revolutionary instigators. But under the present condition of affairs such a plan would be impossible. There is, then, but one way to meet...
...numerous hospitals, Y. M. C. A.s and settlements. It has not, however, made itself felt as it should in regard to the really living problems of the day, and if it continues to remain inactive other agencies will take its place. The drink problem, the social evil, financial and labor problems, all have a remedy, and that obtainable only through the Church and Christ's teachings...