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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt:...underneath them all, there can be no mistaking but that there is a very strong movement of society towards some system of industry that will come much nearer to granting to labor that which labor produces, than has been the case heretofore. If this underlying fact be recognized, then labor's interest in making production as great as it can be made is too obvious to need further comment. Members of the American Federation of Labor who are now engaged in many prolonged and bitter struggles not only over questions of wages but over the whole matter of the life and status of the union may cry out here that we are saying entirely too much; that the battles of labor are, in fact, waxing hotter rather than easier, and that this certainly is not the time to talk glibly of production. If labor could do only one thing at a time that might indeed be so, but there is no reason why labor in taking new thought should weaken itself in the least as regards its present activities. On the contrary, the very intensity and determination back of the struggle which it is now waging should make labor look ahead and prepare itself for exercising the responsibilities that would attend success. Labor is, on the whole, fighting an offensive rather than a defensive war. Why carry on such a campaign unless one expects or hopes to succeed? And if one expects or hopes to succeed, why should one not display one's confidence to the world by preparing for it? Preparation for success--a revamping of the labor organization so as to make it strong in the art of facilitating production as well as in that of war--would in fact tend mightily to bring about that very state of success. If labor cannot be expected to interest itself in production unless it participates in the gain, neither will the...