Identifier: theforum62newy (find matches)
Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sible for the dreadful waste and misery whichthe world has endured and from the effects of which it willsuffer for many years to come. It was difficult to subordi-nate the natural feeling of indignation and instinct to dovengeance to a cold, dispassionate consideration of the char-acter of the Kaisers acts and their relation to law and jus-tice. Yet one of the reasons that our country entered thewar was to bring lawlessness to an end. We believed thatan undeviating respect for law is essential to the prosperityand happiness of society and that the rigid maintenance ofthe law, however distasteful it may be, is an imperativeduty. It was with a determination to follow these precepts,to treat impersonally and judicially the submission of theConference, and to avoid being influenced by our own de-sires or by the pressure of public sentiment that we per-formed our duties as the American members of the Commis-sion on Responsibilities and filed our reservations to thereport of the Commission.
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The Irreducible Minimum CAPITAL GETS A NEWDIRECTOR A GREAT INDUSTRYS FORWARD MOVE By Edwin Wildman EI E stood just at the side of the open doors of one ofthe big drying-ovens in the factory. He was inhis shirtsleeves and wore the emblem of labor—the close fitting black cap and visor—and was every inch aproduct of the kind of sweat-of-your-brow and work-with-your-hands labor that is spelt in these days with a capitalL. Back of him were a half-dozen cutting machinesmanned by a dozen men of his type of varying ages work-ing at high speed thrusting the product down a roller truckbeneath the cutters and piling it high on carriers to passinto the dryers. Their intense activity attracted my at-tention, but I was now centering my interest in the man atmy side—the foreman of the department, for he is a NewDirector in the Board of this $140,000,000 industry. Thirty years ago he came to the factory as a boy.Today he is still working at day wages, and is the dulyelected representative of 30

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