Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1919 — Newer Relation of Capital and Labor Is Expressed by Word “Partners” [ARTICLE]

Newer Relation of Capital and Labor Is Expressed by Word “Partners”

By GEORGE W. PERKINS,

New York Financier

“The worker’s'iu.ir share” has been a reaLproblem ever since the world,, began. It has changed greatly as civilizmion has progressed; and has crowded harder and harder for solution as intelligence and education have spread and broadened. _ The worker’s fair share was an unsolved problem when the expression that designated the relationship between the man of capital and the man of labor was “owner and slave.” It still existed when the expression of relationship became “master and man.” - \ It still exists in these days when the expression of relationship is “employer and employee.” . These very changes in the expression used to designate the relationship between- capital and labor show that steady progress has been made toward solving the problem of the worker’s fair share. , I take it that everyone believes that we cannot go back to ..the old conditions.; that wfe must move forward to an even better relationship than that expressed by the term “employer and employee.” /-Yon “What is this newer relationship to be and what, term will express it?” I answer'that I believe it must be “partners.” The profit sharing I believe in is the kind that is real; the kind that promotes thorough and efficient co-operation between employer and employee ; the kind that' makes partners of employees; the sort of profit sharing that is practiced between partners in a business.