Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — Labor Must Now Have the Opportunity to Enjoy the Good Things of Life [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Labor Must Now Have the Opportunity to Enjoy the Good Things of Life

By LORD SHAUGHNESSY,

, Canadian Pacific Railway

I have’ just from England. There the situation of labor is a cause of anxiety. Nominally the problem between labor and employers is a question of hours and rates of pay. To my mind, and it will be so here, is something beyond that now. It is not only a question of hours and rates of pay, but of the actual status of men who are performing* such a large portion of the work of building up industries and making themselves as strong an influence as the capitalists and employers. It is a question of what their social status is to be in the future. We may take

it for granted beyond question that the working man of the future, the working man of today, must be permitted and enabled and assisted, he and his wife and children, to lead quite a different existence to that of the past. : . :.— _— ——— They must not be confined to the narrow, sordid lives that have been theirs hitherto. w ■ , They must have the opportunity to enjoy the good things of life that those in higher positions have enjoyed.