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adjoining the clubhouse. A library containing about boo carefully 

 selected books is free to all. A large number of the readers reside 

 outside of Leclare. There are provided also a kindergarten and 

 public schools. In the school, students are admitted on part time 

 and allowed to work in the shops or the farm during a portion 

 of the day, for which they receive compensation. 



As to the results of the entire system as practiced by the N. C. 

 Nelson Company it is the opinion of the managers that the waste 

 of time and material has been greatly reduced, that there has been 

 a better attention to business, and that there his been established 

 a solidarity of employer and employee in a common business in 

 which they are mutnalh' interested from which they draw mutual 

 ])roiits. 



The brief statistical presentation of these examples of attempts 

 to solve the labor problem reveal to us the fundamfntal proposition 

 in the process of its solution, namely, that as interests of capital 

 and labor, of employer and employee are common and all warfare 

 between them is unnatural, any system which will tend to establish 

 this fact will have within itself the basis of success, and any system 

 which fails to establish this certainly will not succeed. There 

 must be established a solidarity of interests of employer and em- 

 ployee upon an economic basis. There must be established a 

 feeling that their interests are common. Having established this, 

 and acting upon it on the basis of absolute justice, any rational 

 plan has the probability of success. If this be continued further 

 in the social life, so that the employer and employees mingle 

 together on a common basis, the barriers now existing between the 

 classes will be liroken down and there will be a common sympathy 

 and trust between them. From the foregoing examples we may 

 infer that a successful solution of the problem rests upon the 

 observance of the following principles: 



1. The laborer must have an economic interest in the product 

 of his own industry to insure care of tools, saving of time, saving 

 of material and the creation of a better quality of goods. 



2. He should be received into total or partial partnership in the 

 management of the business through stock ownership or some 

 similar means. 



3. Both employees and emplo^•ers should co-operate in furnish- 

 ing means of social improvement. 



4. While working together the utmost sympathy shoidd prevail 

 between the employer, and employee and at the same time due 

 respect should be given to the respective position and riglits of 

 each class. 



