What Is the Christian View of Work and Wealth?

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: ... that will, if successful, not only eliminate strikes and lockouts, but make constructively for greater production and cheaper costs. To me there is no question that we should try the experiment of the perhaps longer road proposed by the Industrial Conference for the development of relationships between employer and employe, rather than to enter upon summary action of court decision that may both stifle the delicate adjustment of industrial processes and cause serious conflict over human rights. We must all agree that those solutions of deficiencies in our social, economic, and political structure which are found through education and voluntary action of our people themselves are the solutions that endure. To me, the upbuilding of the sense of responsibility and of intelligence in each individual unit in the United States, with the intervention of government only to promote the development of these relations, the suppression of domination by any one group over another, is the basis upon which democracy must progress. The Industrial Relations Law of Kansas has taken from the workers their ownership of themselves. They must work by order of the court, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, and the Government stands behind such a law compelling them to work. A slave must work when his master directs, he cannot refuse. The freeman may refuse to work, may own himself.--Herbert Hoover in National Labor Digest, May, 1920, p. 13. Drastic Action Demanded I hope that this association (American Bar Association) will try soon to frame a law to make strikes a criminal offense. These men who control the labor organization threaten us with calamities hardly second to those which happened through the acts of Germany. We could not afford to have a few Germans overrun the w...