This is perhaps a remnant of the nineteenth-century myth that competition is the mode of progress. ↩
Mr. Laski, I think. ↩
It does not matter in the terms of which branch of study you express it—philosophy, sociology, or political science—it is always the same problem. ↩
Some writers talk of trade representation vs. party organization as if in the trade group you are rid of party. Have they studied the politics of trade unionism? In neither the trade group nor the neighborhood group do you automatically get rid of the party spirit. That will be a slow growth indeed. ↩
Yet perhaps the trade-union has been one of the truest groups, one of the most effective teachers of genuine group lessons which we have yet seen. Increased wages, improved conditions, are always for the group. The trade-unionist feels group-wants; he seeks to satisfy these through group action. Moreover the terms of a collective bargain cannot be enforced without a certain amount of group solidarity. In strikes workmen often sacrifice their own interests for what will benefit the union: the individual—I may prefer his present wages to the privations of a strike; the group-I wants to raise the wages of the whole union. ↩
I have not in this brief statement distinguished between government “ownership,” “control,” “regulation,” etc. See War-Time Control of Industry by Howard L. Gray. ↩
“Representative Government in British Industry” by J. A. Hobson, in New Republic, September 1, 1917. ↩
Following the precedent of England which provided, under the Munitions of War act and other legislation, machinery (joint boards representing employers and employed) for the prevention and adjustment of labor disputes. ↩
Christensen, Politics and Crowd Morality, p. 238. ↩
It has usually been supposed that wars have been the all-important element in consolidating nations; I do not want to disregard this element, I want only to warn against its over emphasis. Moreover, the way in which wars have had a real and permanent influence in the consolidation of nations is by the pressure which they have exerted upon them in showing them that efficiency is obtained by the closest cooperation and coordination of all our activities, by a high degree of internal organization. ↩
The western states feel that they are training members of society and not individuals and that is why it seems proper to them to take public money to found state universities. ↩
A little girl I know said, “Mother, if women get the vote, shall I have to be President?” ↩
Also men have less opportunity for discussion at work than formerly. ↩
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