Feb. 18, 1916. 
MANCHESTER BROTHERHOOD 
Boston SETTLEMENT WorKER TALKS 
ALONG SOCIALISTIC LINES. 
TABOR and not ownership must 
determine the distribution of 
wealth,” said Ordway Tead, the young 
Boston settlement worker, in striking 
the key-note of his address to the 
Manchester Brotherhood in the Bapt- 
ist vestry Monday evening. 
“Tt is stated in the preamble to one 
of our state constitutions that a fre- 
quent return to first principles 1s 
necessary to maintain liberty,” he said. 
“Tet us get at what these fundamental 
principles are. First, human welfare 
and happiness depend upon physical 
welfare or a decent standard of liv- 
ing. Second, labor and not owner- 
ship must be the basis of wealth. 
Third, education must be free to all. 
Fourth, government must be con- 
ceived as the will of all and not the 
few.” 
Mr. Tead’s subject as announced 
was, “The Principles of Progress.” 
He told briefly the conditions existing 
between labor and capital and quoted 
"statistics frequently during his ad- 
‘dress. He declared that a big majority 
of the wage-earners in Massachusetts 
were supporting families on less than 
$600 a year. He believed that the cost 
of running a family should be figured 
on the same basis that a business :s 
estimated on, a certain amount being 
set aside for insurance, surplus re- 
serve fund and for depreciation 
against the time when the worker’s 
earning capacity would be lessened. 
- He advocated a short enough work 
day to allow time for recreation and 
sufficient income to make possible a 
certain amount of recreation after the 
expenses of food, clothing and shelter 
had been taken care of. He esti- 
mated the cost of supporting a family 
of five at $900 to $1200 a year and 
said all workers should receive a min- 
imum wage of at least the former 
amount. 
“We have acquired four fallacies in 
our industrial relations,’ said Mr. 
Tead. “We have come to regard cap- 
ital as an active agent, as something 
that must be fed and taken care of or 
it will die. Another is that capital 
should be in charge of industry and 
should be the sole manager of indus- 
try. A third fallacy is that thing we 
have created called a corporation, a 
thing which can do as it likes and can 
not be punished, a thing which never 
dies, but lives on after its founders 
are gone. Our fourth fallacy is the 
inheritance of capital by succeeding 
generations who have no part in the 
earning of it.” 
Because of these fallacies, he said, 
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a condition had arisen in which capi- 
tal had all of the preference and labor 
all the risk. He declared that 70 per- 
cent of the property of the country 
was held by less than 10 percent of 
the population. He said that labor 
should be led into a greater zeal for 
its own interest and that this would 
be brought about by education. Less 
than 80 percent of the children in this 
country get beyond grammar schools 
and only 2 percent reach college. 
He declared for a minimum wage, 
government ownership of public utili- 
ties and the control of capital by the 
government with the government ulti- 
mately the only lender and holder of 
capital. He favored equal represen- 
tation of capital, labor and the man- 
agers of industry in the administra- 
tion of government and_ business. 
Politics was the solution of the 
economic problems he saw and he 
said that a political party must rec- 
ognize the needs of adjusting existing 
conditions. 
During the question period at the 
conclusion of the address Cyrus M. 
Dodge declared the need of both capi- 
tal and labor in the operation of busi- 
ness, and defended the much-abused 
capitalist. Rev. Mr. Warner was of 
the opinion that to take away compe- 
tition would take away much of the- 
incentive to produce the best quality 
and the highest degree of service. 
Many of the others took the same 
side of the question, which seemed to 
be the popular one. 
Following the discussion refresh- 
ments were served. The Brother- 
hood now has a membership of 201 
about half of whom were in attendance 
Monday evening. The cold weather 
accounts for the moderate attendance. 
The regular meeting of the Brother- 
hood will be held next Monday even- 
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