Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such sincerity and temperance of thought and speech in a labor leader as Mr. Plumb displayed in his masterly argument here cannot be safely or successfully met in these times by the utter repudiation of it as a "stump speech." It is not in any spirit of prejudice which characterizes all such arguments by epithet that the problem will be settled. The hope of the country lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise...
Patriots may well view with alarm the break in the National Industrial Conference at Washington. It is an event of grave moment in American affairs and may not be dismissed with a word and a hope. Labor has withdrawn from the conference muttering; the representatives of the public seem to side with labor; capital sits tight; and the country waits to see how badly it is to be ground between the upper and the nether millstones...
Responsibility for the split seems to rest entirely upon the shoulders of the capital group, for it was in that body that the majority was found to kill labor's resolution recognizing the right of collective bargaining. All along capital has said that if they could only sit down and talk it over with labor, everything would be all right. When the show-down came, it was capital that started the "scuttling" tactics...
...cannot be that the world is too small for both capital and labor to exist in it at once. The two are complementary. Fair and equable relations between them must be possible. During the war labor gave much; capital promised much. Now that war is over, labor, willing to compromise on many questions and expecting like concessions from the other side, meets, capital. But capital, which has swallowed far bigger pills in its day, refuses recognition of collective bargaining a principle under which it has been tacitly working many years. This principle labor cannot abandon without losing all for which...
...time for people to stop cursing the recognized labor leaders; in them the immediate destiny of the nation rests. Given public support, they will be able to restrain their bolting subordinates. But if this support is not given, the country is laying itself open to radical inroads, leading we know not where...