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Some sort of a working league of all leading nations seems to be the next 
step forward. 
The importance of more complete coordination in the industrial affairs 
of nations has become more and more apparent during recent years. <A 
modern state is composed of many industrial groups, each one seeking 
special advantages for its members. and often without regard for the in- 
terests of other groups or for the good of society. Labor decides to strike 
in order to obtain a larger share of the profits of industry, employers en- 
deavor to enforce their demands by means of the lockout. The result. in 
both cases, is an interruption of industry, while the damage too often falls 
chiefly on the innocent public. A few generations ago strikes and lockouts 
were used only as weapons of last resort, to obtain redress for grievances, 
either real or imagined. Today they are often used as a matter of policy. 
whenever the time is favorable for advancing the interests of the party 
concerned. The necessity of society thus becomes the golden opportunity 
of both capital and labor, and so dependent is society on the continuous 
operation of certain industries, that swift calamity would follow even a brief 
interruption of work. The possibility of a general strike of coal miners or 
railway employees has been brought uncomfortably near during recent 
years. 
In this country, at the present time, there is no reason for alarm in re- 
gard to the final outcome of such a strike. Certain compromises would be 
made, work would finally be resumed and the authority of society would be 
vindicated. Such a settlement, however, would not prevent a repetition of 
the disturbances. In those industries which are essential to the public wel- 
fare, both strikes and lockouts must be prevented. and this can be done 
only by removing the cause. In the great industrial expansion of the past 
century, certain organizations of capital and labor have been formed in the 
social body, but the hormones which should regulate their activities are 
lacking. Differentiation has outrun coordination. It is necessary to adjust 
the relations between society and the Glasses so that the welfare of all 
shall be safeguarded. When the classes recognize the fact that they are 
merely organs of the social body, and when they realize that this depend- 
ence carries with it duties as well as rights, then it will be possible to en- 
act laws which will insure a reasonable measure of industrial peace. Only 
by such cooperation can the classes reach their own highest good. 
Some progress has been made toward this goal. Employers and employees 
are beginning to appreciate their obligations. Labor did its share to win 
the war and it has generally resisted the seductive advances of Bolshevism. 
It is to be hoped that the lesson of cooperation learned during the war 
will help to solve the problems of peace. Failure to accomplish this must 
mean failure in everything. Only when a species is headed for destruction 
are violations of the laws of coordination tolerated, even for a time. 
Other social problems which are calling for attention, are due to violation 
of certain laws of reproduction. The growth of human population is sub- 
ject to the same general laws that hold good among lower forms. The in- 
erease of every species must eventually reach a limit, and this limit has 
actually been reached by the great majority of living species,—a stage in 
which the average increase equals the average death-rate, and population 
