The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation Yale Lectures
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" "Because of a certain amount of suspicion that the employers who introduce the system (of profit-sharing) wish to weaken the influence of trade organiza- tions upon the men ; and because it is believed that the fact of a bonus being given induces the men to hide, or fail to take action against, breaches of trades-union regulations. ' ' 1 Now I have no slightest intention of discuss- ing the force or value of these objections on the part of working men to a system of profit-shar- ing; but simp...ly to call your attention to the animus which inspires them, of which, unless I have been misinformed, we have had illus- trations nearer home. At the first view it is profoundly discouraging and no less pro- foundly mysterious that a proposition on the whole so manly and generous as that of profit- sharing by the employer with his workmen should be met with such pronounced distrust and suspicion. Of course, it is to be taken for 1 See Board of Trade Report, 1894, pp. 182-187. 177 THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION granted that the master sees beforehand the probabilities, in the stimulus thus offered them, of increased advantage to himself as well as to his workmen ; but equally of course it ought to be recognized that, as to this, there is no cer- tainty, while as to the essential principle there is an element of absolute equity which deserves to be both recognized and honored.
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