Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Labor Party of the United States, created in Chicago last Monday, is likely to become a Frankenstein monster unless a pretty sharp eye is kept on its development. It holds potentialities that on the whole bode no good to the country. It is the formal declaration of class war in America; and we have seen what class war means wherever it has been waged. But there is still time to spike the guns of the new party. The only question is whether those who hold the spikes are broad-minded and observant enough to see their chance...
...Labor Party, while designed, or course, to get the support of "all hand and brain workers," is at the same time likely to gather under its standard a great many persons who would like nothing better than to wreck our government. All the I. W. W. people and Red agitators will flock to it, not because they believe that in it lies the salvation of the workingman, but because they think they see a chance to get something for themselves. It is possible that in a short time it will make itself a dictator, and the tyranny of the many...
This natural growth of organized labor led to two results, both detrimental to the consumer. On the one hand, the contentions for profits on inventions and improved management by employers and employees resulted in a compromise whereby both share in the profits...
This in itself, is fair enough. But we are faced, either by understandings between capital and labor which all to take into consideration the public for by capitalistic solidarity which interferes with the free play of competition. The result is that the public does not share in the benefits growing out of inventions...
...inventions modern business methods would never have been possible. But it is equally undeniable that the public has a right to share in the improvements. A diminishing cost of production must benefit the consumer. In order to safeguard him, the public must make itself heard above the wranglings of labor-capital disputes...