CHAPTER IV. Militarism and Industrial Legislation

MILITARISM AND INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION

American cities slow to consider immigration in relation to industry 93

Workingmen alone must regard them in relation to industrial situations 94

Assimilation of immigrants by workingman due both to economic pressure and to idealism 95

Illustrated by Stock Yards Strike 96

And by the strike in Anthracite Coal Fields 97

In the latter aroused public opinion forced Federal Government to deal with industrial conditions 98

In complicated modern society not always easy to see where social order lies 101

Chicago Stock Yards Strike illustrates such a situation 104

Government should have gained the enthusiasm immigrants gave to union 107

War element an essential part of strike 109

Appeal to loyalty the nearest approach to a moral appeal 110

Reluctance of United States Government to recognize matters of industry as germane to government 112

Resulting neglect of civic duty 113

The workingman’s attitude toward war as expressed by his international organization 114

Commerce the modern representative of conquest 116

Standard of life should be the test of a nation’s prosperity, so recognized by workingmen 117

Social amelioration undertaken by those in closest contact with social maladjustments 118

Present difficulties in social reform will continue until class interests are subordinated to a broader conception of social progress 119

If self-government were inaugurated by advanced thinkers now, they would make research into early forms of industrial governments 121

Autocratic European governments have recognized workingman’s need of protection 122

Has Democracy a right to refuse this protection? 123