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tially Successful in ae By James P. Holland = Written Especialiy for The Evening P J World, ’ ase 1010, by The Pree Pubtinting Co. — New York Brecing Workl.) Tam asked to state for The Evening World: oe 4 1. Whether or not I approve of Pres- c ‘Went Wilson's recommendations con Py _ cerning the democratization of indus- try as published in bis message to Congress. My answer is yes; I indorse every None and word of the President's refer- «. “ences to labor. 2. What in my opinion will be or- wm. SaNized labor's attitude toward the oe Principle? 5 I believe organized labor will agree pars With the President by an overwhelm- ee — majority, and that the only di S senters will be the Bolsheviki, I. W. Mm ‘W.’s and Socialists, whose agitators ye have wormed their way into some of | <*> the trades unions for the purpose of * disrupting the American Federation of Labor and overturning the existing industrial system. 3. How may the principle of in- dustrial democracy be made opera- i). (tive? 5 Along the lines that have been par- “tially successful in Great Britain— a the lines that hava developed from the Whitley report and reports of e] 3 Government commissions. 4. Will the principle prove accept- able to employers in the United ™ States? ' ; That question would better be re- ferred to the employers, Some em- ployers have already, in agreement with their employees, put the plan into effect in this country. I refer to y * the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a ® Standard Oll Company, International a ee “ae Harvester Company, Sewell-Clapp Company, Irving-Pitt Manufacturing ‘» fompany and the Packard Piano Company. ‘That, I believe, answers the four 4 questions, Now I would like to be aes permitted to make a few observa- & § ‘The principle of industrial democ- fucy iy not new, Labor bas been try~ Ing for many years to induce capital to accept it; not, I will admit, in its wresent form, but in various forms | © whicn experience would have evolved into that of the present, just as this form will eventually give way to | ge foMmezhing better but with the same basic idea of industrial democracy. Strange to say, the first American “employer who made open acknow!- 6 edgment that labor's stand was right ‘was Jobo RockefeNer jr. To have » converted ¢ Rockefeller was as great » a victory labor as inducing W. P. oh Anderson wear a “no beer no work" badge would be for the anti- * prohtbitionists, John D. Rockefeller jr in agreement with the employees ° : f the Colorado Fyet and Iron Com- y pany, changed the old system into an Ty, industrial democracy some three ' years ago. There are points about ‘the Colorado plan which I believe could be improved upon, and which °° wii doubtless receive attention in due time. e Now comes «@ President of the ‘United States recommending a syscem for, whcih labor has untiringly agi- Paige tated. American labor, a3 ‘ ee onl the millennium be near! ! oa: * gore leaving America: “Labor F: a Labor Leaders Favor Wilson Plan, ~ Want Capitalists to Follow Schwab And Rockefeller in Advance Work To Democratize Big Industries SAYS JAMES P, HOLLAND, President N.Y. State Federation of Labor Principle May Be Made Operative Along Lines Par- Years Has Been Trying to Induce Capital to Ac- cept It, Although Not in Its Present Form— ‘ Neither Employer Nor Employee Can Find Any- thing in That Doctrine to Quarrel About, the American] "8°¥ to begin educating the reaction. ewresident and a Rockefeller in agree- ment on something—anything! Can|*¢vantages. Samuel Gompers ro. I will take this opportunity of ven- ¢uring the opinion that President|!/eved many industrial leaders were | cWison id not write those Iiberai|"“*!ming to enslave labor again as in © Asbor views into his labor message|'h® long gone days before organized without having first received the ad- lwice of Samuel Gompers, President of|G°™Pers served notice on industrial Qhe American Federation of Labor.|*utocrats that labor is propared to ®F ger. Gompers and his advisers were },|/%t for its standards of living, its Parts with the paramount purpose in|/#lr share of prosperity, its rights and ‘goind that, as Mr. Gompers said be- Aida more vigorously than ever . not only in the United States but throughout the world has |take the reactionary industrial auto. By Eleanor Clapp. {VE a thought to Broadway.” Now that this slogan can be seen in many an office or shop window and the Broadway Association js busy considering sug- gestions for the improvement of this much-abused thoroughfare, perhaps a little about the interesting history of the most famous of all New York's streets will be helpful. The first thing any stranger in the city wants to see is Broadway and after he has viewed it he is always Great Britain—Labor for|«« "The object of ali reform in this es- sential matter must be the genuine democratization of industry, based upon @ full recognition of the right of those who work, in whatever rank, to participate in some organic way in every decision which directly affects thefr welfare or the part they are to play in industry.” Line why it is calied Broadway What sensibie employer or employee! highway in a big city And. the can find anything in that doctrine | ghances are that nobody can tell him, to quarrel about? It seems to Me! But the name was applicable enough ‘that long worn-out traditions, f@tlwhen it was given to the old Dutch outlived viewpoints, dead and gone) road that ran from the fort up to @ processes of thought are responsible! gate in the “wall” or stout wooden for most, if not all, of the disagres- | palimde at what is now Wall Street. where but ‘way uptown, where no- body goes except to go home. So the visitor quite naturally in- thing else, must rest upon the knowl- edge that both parties to an agree- ment sincerely intend to honorably fulfil its terms, If one of the parties makes mental reservations that at an opportune time he will break the agreement, or if he quibbles about its fulfilment—in short, if he is not fully resolved to observe not only its letter | but its epirit—then an industrial de- mocracy agreement, like any other, is | merely @ scrap.of paper, Sincerity is! the keystone of the arch. With that! virtue freely observed by both capital and labor there is no reason why the Industrial democracy system should hot put an end forever to serious dis- putes between capital and labor. ‘The average uninformed worker ts apt to be sceptical as to whether ved dustrial democracy will actually in-! ure to his benefit, or whether it, like #0 many other plans that have been! tried in the past, will not be used by unscrupulous employers as a club with which to smash tradé unionism. Y Sa have the experience of bated | ritain to guide us in that respect. The Whitley report states in the most | nrencway Decnuse it began ine wt pgp that trades unione| nowling Green, which was used us vaniguaabidind De gions on which | drill and parade ground for the ery success shall be} soldiers of the fort. ays adel ai pee) organizations) Broadway grew very slowly in these Riise tens esas vate _ dete times, for the growth of the town tl wikkous icine ‘cakes as states’ was along the East River, and it took eas tess of eetoae fe “ae = nearly a century to extend it as far deemed to inevitadi pps north as the “Commons,” as City Hall eye ues geen fe failure, In view] park was then called, Even as late pg: ements it seems to me) as 1812, when the present City Hall ra Plage tage Reed have nol was constructed, the contractors posed ety of their organiza: | eons it needless extravagance to ae use marble for the rear walls, as they Pik aad message will! dia for the sides and front, but built Uae? aie rag among labor|this of freestone because they con- eee pe te ae os file of trades | sidered it unlikely that the city would pe share f pole lmesid of the planjever grow far enough north to permit Hayy rebet reptetaae if au thought- | a view of the rear of the building, eeitain han share ih ore In the seventeenth century Broad- stroctive radioaHam is to be checked | “a7 *acet_ sbrupliy st Park Row, tiara mune bec reace auane ms where it turned its scanty traffic into democratic readjustment of @ and/the Bowery Lane, In 1760 the city between empioyere Hy relations| fathers laid out Broadway between fhita chine pevbers employees! Vesey und Duane Street, but they hich 40 dechat pags ag did not consider this an extension of inet hia Seon past bo eee: t'> highway to the south, for they Wileon im the hands of both capital salled “ares Sacre. Eitvey ater and labor. They should wield it to. | <!s George payer pond di laas against the common changed until after the Revolution. While 1 1 ee send On the line of Canal Street a little theesht cn / biggrin peat li stream flowed across town from the fect among the unions s rtant eub-| Collect Pond, near Centre Street, to oy or lendern fray not/the Hudson, and during the war the BY — halises tat industry who| British, who occupied the city, had ncerel: in industrial democ- | pullt a stone bridge to connect the fortifications they had thrown up on each side of the stream, From this Street.” aries and fossils of their Class to its cently said that he was suspicious of the intentions of capital; that he be- ek re 1 surprised because it is not broad any- | ments that arise in these days. Let The Dutch called this road “De | us add insincerity to the list. Heere Wegh,” or Heere Straat,” or, Industrial democracy, like every-!as we should say, “Highway or High When the English took the | towp in 1664 they changed the name! ‘ce ry iM AL uaet: [a Vhen “Old Broadway’? Was Young Historic Scenes and Events That Are Now Only Memories—Milestones in the Growth of New York’s Famous Artery and the World’s Greatest Thoroughfare == rh old the | %, 2 Hem wh jevated rai y proposed Ph h to about Tenth Street, where it was stopped by the farm that Capt, Rich. | ard Randall afterward bequeathed as @ “Sailors’ Snug Harbor.” way was opened through this prop- erty and it was connected with the In 1820 a Bloomingdale Road, that before this had been reached only through Bowery Lane. In the city plan of 1807 it was in- tended that the two main roads of island should mest at large a bridge northward the country lane|tulip tree located in Union Square. for Broadway in 1853 by J intended to qratoan reltt euaase H. Swett, the straight line at first Bowery Lane, lth Street east of Broadway. rectly improvement. fou a LD laid down it would strike the upper end of the now Fourth Avenue, ut @ point well below 14th Street, 80 it was curved to its present course. ‘There is an interesting reason why was never cut through Hendrick Bre- voort, a flery old Dutchman, owned all this land and his house stood di- in the path of the proposed He refused to sell and when the workmen arrived to demol- to be Broadway, was|It was discovered, however, that if!ish his property he stood on his door- called the Middle Road and extended Broadway were to be continued im step with his old blunderbuss in his TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1919 Matrimonial Rules Of the Road VII.—WATCH THE ROAD AHEAD By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by the Prees Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Worl The Price of Happy Marriage Is Eternal Vigilance + Over Self—What We Adore at Twenty We May Spell “A Bore” at Thirty-five—The Wife With — the forties and fift destroyed by fire. corner of Broadwa; An: ‘now the site of the St. Paul Building. h\ |hand and defled them to carry out thelr orders, The land was afte! |ward sold to Grace Church, which formerly stood on Broadway right near Trinity. Many attempts have been made to put the street through, but they have always been blocked. Tweed threatened to do it, but the |church authorities dared him to try jit and as they were some of the most Lower Broadway. On the office build- ling at No, 41 there is a tablet that tells about the building, by Adrian Block and the sailors of his ship which was accidentally burned in tho | harbor, of huts where they spent the winter and built a new vessel, the Restless, This was in 1613, and it was this same man who discovered | Block Island. In 730 «there Broadw now is, to keep the cows in Lispe- nard’s meadows at the north from wandering down into the city, Six years before this time the first of the long list of Broadway's famous hotels was opened. |Arms, afterward Burns's Coffee House, which stood on the block just above Trinity Church and was de- molished in 1792 and the City Hotel erected on the spot. Here all great public banquets of the day were held and Charles Dickens was enter- tained at a dinner presided over vy Washington Irving. A book might be written about Broadway that would contain a good part of the history of the country, for here nearly all America’s greatest men have either lived or visited at some time in their lives, No, 1 Broad- way was for a time Washington's headquarters. At No. 39 he Mved for a while when he was President. At No. 26, the headquarters of the Stand- ard Oil, was the residence of Alexan- der Hamilton, and here he is said to have laid awake nights planning the fiscal policy of the new Republic. But ne burned whale oil. Broadway has been called the “greatest street in the world,” and it 1s also the longest, for it runs from Howling Green to Albany, were bi rs across WY) efforts were made against it.” Mr. ‘ore, Cannot Mberal-minded employers Copyrixht, Ignorant Essays Banquet Speakers Are Divided Into Two Classes--Those Who Can and Those Who Do—The Guests Are in Good Spirits Only When Good Spirits Are in the Guests—And Then There’s the Toastmaster—But Read On. By J. P. McEvoy 1019, by the Press Publishing Co, BANQUET is a small meal entirely surrounded by speakers. (Tae New York Evening World) Hence 7 "MI interpret their public utterances faith that President Wilson will take|crats who would haughtily refuse to care of its just interests. American la- | acknowledge the right of the workers “bor will be in France to strengthen |to the benefits of industrial demoo- ~ the hands of our President.” racy up on a high mountain and open ‘The leader of the American Nation | their eyes to the bright lights that and the jeader of American labor are | herald the dawn of a now and happier ‘united for the attainment of the same | day? along similar lines of practice, ah eatnE. oc? 2epemmmed HIS ROMANCE, correctly. Strange to say, leaders of | “Di4 you fall im love with your wits industry, Charles M. Schwab, Elbert |*t frst sight?” Gary, George W. Perkins, in addi- |, “N® 1 was Ip love with her a long elon to Mr. Rockefeller, seem to be |e before I ever saw her,” “How can that be?” Haking the same course, What @ tri-| sng was @ telephone girl and I fel! in love with her beautiful a ‘ie mes-' heard it daily over the wiref-i<eneas the expression “the groaning bored.” The speakers speak on the slightest provocation and sometimes without any apparent reason. They are divided into two classes—those who can and those who do, And then there are toastmasters, A toastmaster is a curious fish which belongs to the cephalopod or cuttlefish family, Just as the cuttlefish, when cornered, emits a large cloud of thick ink and cuttles away during the con- fusion, so the toastmaster, when at a loss for ideas, emits a large cloud of vague, general remarks and sits down while the crowd wanders around in the fog—-wanders and wonders, ‘Toastmasters are very humorous, especially after the third cocktail, Their humor consists of two kinda—bunmots and jeau d’esprees, One toast master is sufficient, but three are better, Sometimes the tastmaster ts cafled upon to officiate at a dry banquet. On such occasions he is as funny as neuralgia f Banquets are accented on the last syllable, The guests are in, good © @ ~ BANQUETS |epirits only when good spirits are in the guests. The banquet is called to with inaction, One About the Two Scots, under way, he is knee-deep in his discourse, runs out of gas or has a blow-out, There used to be only two kinds of banquets—wet and wett will be nothing but dry banquets when the League of Carrie Nations order by the toastmaster, who hammers the table with a gavel instead of bamming the speakers over the head with it. qveers him with the crowd, who yell “Louder' torts, “Harry isn’t here to-night,” which gets a laugh from those who have been parked at the bar all afternoon, getting a running start, He then sits down and allows the guests to enjoy themselves a while before he lets the speakers at them, Meanwhile, the speakers are strain- ing at the leash. ‘They have speeches all backed up inside of them, curdling As soon as the toastmaster suspects the guests are begin- ning to haye a good time he gets up and introduces a speaker who im- mediately teils that Good One About the Two Irishmen or the Equally Good Before the guests have regained consclousness This oversight immediately !" The toastmaster then re- There is no stopping him now until he But inflyential mep in the city he sub- sided. The very first dwellings of white men on Manhattan Island were erected on}chances are that you are headed in near where White Street} | comes with thé intermittent regularity This was the Province | of the thrgb ih an aching tooth. “He the; {and I suppose Harry is no exception. Her Eye on the Road Ahead Will Learn to Her Husband’s Good Comrade—It Is a Mo Permanent Job Than That of Venus. HE early bird may be getting the worm and popular approval, usual, these pleasant May days, but the early marriage gets lit or no approbation from Mr. and Mrs. Worldly Wiseman, It is a fact that many early marriages, especially they are made hastily, impulsively, end in the matr monial trafMfe court of divorce. But the marriages of th mature frequently end in the same place. We all, am sure, number among our acquaintances married couples who won and wedded in their early twentles, perhaps even before that, and are happy in spite of it How do they do it? Are they simply lucky, or is there method in the madness of their Romeo-and-Jullet ro mance? There was a man who, on bis wedding night, prayed “Lord, permit us to grow old together.” I think if be had left out one word his prayer would have been even more significant. What every bride and bridegroom, and especially every young bride and bridegroom should ask of fate ts the felicity of ~~ =—— ee pene GROWING TOGETHER. If they can|the necessary thing, If the road of married life is to remain both safe Srow together they will be as happy }4i4 interesting. Maybe the Greeks at forty-one as at twenty-one, and] were cruci only to be kind, when they the younger they marry the more |demanded merely the domestic vir years of joy their lives will contain. |tues of their wives and found intelli Aa shrewdly as the motorist, the|6eMt companionship among. othd women, With the official héterae am husband and wife must watch the| if they to avoid holes, collisions or The most logical objection to the mar- riage of young persons is that most of life is lived after thirty-five, and what we adore at twenty we may spell “ a bore” fifteen years later, Yet) this need not be so if two in their early twenties will take thought for their to-morrows, if they will develop their mental interests so that these match as perfectly as their dance steps. The price of happy marriage is eternal vigilance over self. In marriage you ought not merely to be “on your way.” You ought to know where you are going—or the the official harem thrown into the di card—probably because of the h of l.—maybe the modern man ts u reasonable in expecting his wife to the perfect home-maker, mothe Venus and chum. Yet if she canna shine in all four roles, the wise wif with her eye on the road ahead, w choose at least to be her husband’ good comrade. It is a job more pe manent than that of Venus, more | teresting than that of the hausfrau. There is no limit to the mental ad ventures this resolution will thri m her, Nothing in the world ever so silly but some man made his hobby. I know a mag who takes a keen tellectual interest in boxers of the p and present, Now only one fist-figh ever really interested an intelli woman. His name is Cashel Byrd and his appeal lies in the fact t Bernard Shaw wrote a book ab him, Yet the wife of my friend fight fan valiantly struggles with sporting pages and listens to di rambs about the prowess of SI Smith and Battler Brown. She e has reached the point where she venture an apt comment of her o She is an exceedingly sensible wom Another wife of my acquaintance married to a man who has been bil by that bug far deadlier than the fly or the Jersey mosquito—the up bug. He makes speeches gt for travelling hither and yon in torrid gust and on Southern railroads knows litle groups of serious thi ers, whom he takes Very Serio: He says the theory of Bolshevism beautiful, and that its practice been lied about in the capital press, When he is not lincolnsteg ing, he ts @ witty, well-read, charia and useful citizen, Meanwhile, wife Sunday-teas his poudoir viki, serves on his Social Service Ca mittees, reads his pet authors and sembles her love by throwing down the stairs of bis theories g when “he needs it dreadfuily,” ag says If a woman in love with her band can interest herself in fighting or in uplift, she can herself to sympathize with his sion for the movies. Americana, future of flying, the Dem a f road ahead, wish wrong turnings. the wrong direction, I think that for the task of managing the journey of marriage, of watching the road of the years as it unrolls, the wife is pecul- jarly competent, She is naturally more subtle, more critically analytic of married life than is her husband. On a rainy Saturday afternoon, when she cannot go to a matinee, the most prosaic woman, five years married, will wondcr if her hus- band really loves her as much as he did on their honeymoon, “Is he interested in anybody else?” she will ask herself. To all except a few blessed women, that thought goes to the club more t. «i he used to do; at least, he says he goes there, He forgot to kiss me goodby one morning last week, and he has go little to say at dinner. I've heard that no man ever really appreciates a good wife, His stenographer probably knows more about his affairs than I do~and 1 don't like her looks at all.” If the fit of introspection ends there it is exactly as if a motorist should say, “apparently there is a washout on the road ahead, but it is nothing in my young life, I hall not try to steer around it, If the car goes to smash, why, that’s the car’s fault—it should have been bullt more strongly. And if I go to smash, still I shall have the satisfaction of feeling that only the car and the washout are to blame.” The wife who keeps a really intelll- gent eye on the road ahead asks her- self frequently, not, “Is he as much in love with me?” but “Am I as love- able? Is my mind responsive to his? Can I say something besides, ‘Yes, dear,’ when he talks to me about his work? D. I know somthing of the political movement in which he {Is in- terested? Perhaps he isn’t a high- brow, but at least he reads the news. Do I read anything except Party, Zuloaga, the developmi foreign trade markets, the po Ezra Pound, perpetual motio1 philosopher's stone, the single Contrariwise, it will not burt to see with her eyes the bea: flowers, of subtly harmonized ings, of suitability and cleaniini gracious gesture, Perhaps at twenty it is eno } pers. love the way his hair grows, the the female magazines?” ple just below her eye when} I know It is not easy for a woman|gmiles, At forty, married happ to keep in touch with world affairs when she must devote many of her working hours to the interminable de- tail of managing a home and family After telephoning for coal, sewing an elastic on Dorothy's hat, paying for what is under his hair, eyes. Even while the physical ly strong, why not begin to cultl mental sympathy and conge marriage—with an eye on the roa behind lality the laundry, cleaning Warren's Sun- | ahead? day necktie, making him pctigh his oe shoes, arranging the flowers for the LITTLE FACTS ABOUT U, §. dining room, listening sympathetically Americans are becoming better ai to the cook's story of her sister's /quainted with their national fo neuralgia, telephoning for floor oil, /ests and are using them more putting away the winter overcoats, | ; t jtual revenues from the Governmenl hearing Sidney's Latin lesson, mak- forests in the year just ended we: ing Rhbdde Island Johnny cakes for | 3,450,000, or $500,000 more than tea, It is not the easiest thing in the |1916, world to read the newspapers and the | ema New Republic and to discuss Pro-| The value of the mineral products hibition with intelligence, as well as of the United States in the last twe acrimony, years reached a record brea! totag It io not the easiest thing, but It ls in excess of $10,000,000,000,