. The National Civic Federation review . eements. BY JAMES DUNCAN, SECRETARY GRANITE COTTERS NATIONALUNION. AND MEMBER CIVIC FEDERATION. The time is fast approaching when the great ma-jority of corporations, as quite a number have al-ready done, will realize that the proper and business-like way is to meet the representatives of organizedlabor to discuss and agree upon properly definedworking rules and carefully prepared wage and misunderstanding are the two greatestdisorganizers of modern industry, and as long asthe two great factors, capital and labor, stand aloofand fire at
. The National Civic Federation review . eements. BY JAMES DUNCAN, SECRETARY GRANITE COTTERS NATIONALUNION. AND MEMBER CIVIC FEDERATION. The time is fast approaching when the great ma-jority of corporations, as quite a number have al-ready done, will realize that the proper and business-like way is to meet the representatives of organizedlabor to discuss and agree upon properly definedworking rules and carefully prepared wage and misunderstanding are the two greatestdisorganizers of modern industry, and as long asthe two great factors, capital and labor, stand aloofand fire at long range, that long will indiscriminateand unfriendly acts be perpetrated by each towardthe other. Trade-unionism stands for peace andprosperity. In crafts where it is strongest and bestadministered, conditions for the worker are the mostdesirable and the greatest amount of industrialtranquility is obtained. Capital is there found to bein its soundest realm. Great financial bonanzas maynot be visible, but neither do we find the misery. JAMES DUNCAN,Secretary Granite Cutters National Union. and despair of the poorly organized worker or of thenon-unionist. No contract should be more sacred than the tradeagreement of organized labor. It is a matter ofhonor between the contracting parties, that is cir-cumscribed neither by surety companies bonds norby compulsory edicts which enslave the body ordwarf the mind. It is regretable that in too manyinstances these principles are violated both by theunscrupulous employer and by ignorant or unadvisedworkmen; but such mistakes should net he viewedas failure of the labor movement any more than thecollapse of a business venture should be considereda slap to civilization. The bar has members with apeculiar itching in the palm of their hands, whichonly unearned greenbacks will soothe; the church haswithin its fold men who fall by the wayside or hearthe voice of God calling them to a larger salary, andthe labor movement has its bribe takers. Th
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