CHAPTER IX 



EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN 



Eighth proposition. — To carry out its part suc- 

 cessfully, the Government requires the willing 

 aid of the employers and workmen. This aid 

 will not be effective unless the present some- 

 what hostile feelings are converted into harmony 

 between employers and workmen. The sources 

 of this hostility are to be found in the history of 

 the human race. A remedy seems possible. 



If the great national industrial forces are hostile 

 or indifferent to schemes of progress, the work of 

 government cannot be done. Far from being 

 able to carry out a reform against the wishes of 

 those forces, it is necessary to the Government, 

 Government actually requires, that the reform 

 should be strongly desired. The result is much 

 the same if the possessors of either form of the 

 two great national capitals, labour-capital and 

 the capital that sets labour to work, are hostile 

 or indifferent. Hence it follows that, to carry 

 out its part successfully, the Government requires 

 the willing aid of the employers and workmen. 

 To obtain the required result, it is necessary, 

 therefore, that employers and workmen should 



