Labor and Capital by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 50.

Labor and Capital

By Editor

Labor and Capital.—It is an interesting, illuminating, and well-written story that Henry White, formerly president of the Garment Workers' Union of the American Federation of Labor, gives us in the World's Work, closing in the November issue. His theories seem to be borne out by facts, and his statements are abundantly illustrated by events. His last instalment states that the contrast in the character of violence a few years ago and now is significant. Then it was sudden, capricious, spontaneous, emotional; "now this violence has the marks of premeditation and direction. It occurs between strikes as well as during strikes. A systematic terrorism prevails in many organized trades," manifested in explosions, isolated assaults with special weapons, etc. These things are justified on the ground that they are good for the group as against the individual. The open shop is a call to battle. He closes by saying: "It has been found that the labor conflict implies more than a quarreling over pay, to be met by a splitting of differences—that it has to do with underlying human nature. The question still remains open and acute." Its only settlement, we have often pointed out, can be wrought through Jesus Christ upon the individual life.