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OME of the most progressive institutions in the country have changed their methods materially
during the past few years.
They are giving greater encouragement to their employes in a practical way.
In other words, they are rewarding effort and intelligence in a more substantial manner than
they are recognizing indifference and inactivity. In brief, the brain workers are paid in accordance with
the service rendered.
If a man makes suggestions which are of value he is worth more money and he is reimbursed accord-
ingly, and lie is certainly justified in demanding fair treatment in this direction.
This is the lesson that the higher paid business men are preaching to-day, and their words cannot
fail to have an effect in shaping the industrial destinies of this country.
The "profit sharing" schemes and "suggestion" system and several other co-operative ideas that have
been put into operation by various corporations indicate an advance in the right direction, and it is this
recognition of service rendered which will regulate the profits of the future.
It will do more to check the growth of Socialism than any other one move which can be made.
Reforms of this kind must come from the individuals, and they will come through a broadening of
the spirit of fair play and fair dealing and not through the ballot box.
There are plenty of men to-day who treat all their workmen and employes fairly, and there are plenty
of workmen to-day who treat their employers unfairly, and to have matters move along steadily there
must be fair play and a fair recognition of services rendered on both sides.
Without this condition the whole industrial peace of the future is impossible; and no matter how
much we may belittle the existence of certain conditions the mere fact of denying them will not remove
them. No student of industrial development can deny the fact that we are moving through rapidly chang-
ing conditions, that within a decade more radical revolutions may occur, and that business enterprises
must be adjusted to meet the new conditions.
In other words, the whole structure of modern society is undergoing a change from the foundation
up, and no matter how much men affirm that they will not change their policies they will be forced to be-
cause the will of the people is stronger than the will of the individual every time.
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There are many changes going steadily on which must vitally affect our industrial future, and the
doctrine of fair play is becoming more universal.
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