. Electric railway journal . and for the public, will be able to do something to-ward a study of this subject which is of so much im-portance to the national prosperity. The crux of the question lies in the fact that so longas wages are based purely upon the day or the hourspent in work there is constant pressure by the em-ployee toward raising the rate and an equally strong de-sire on the part of the employer to lower it, regardlessof the effect upon the other. This condition introducesthe fundamentally wrong concept that their interestsare diametrically opposed. Actually what the employerwan
. Electric railway journal . and for the public, will be able to do something to-ward a study of this subject which is of so much im-portance to the national prosperity. The crux of the question lies in the fact that so longas wages are based purely upon the day or the hourspent in work there is constant pressure by the em-ployee toward raising the rate and an equally strong de-sire on the part of the employer to lower it, regardlessof the effect upon the other. This condition introducesthe fundamentally wrong concept that their interestsare diametrically opposed. Actually what the employerwants to buy is not a days work or an hours work butefficient production, and the more of this he receives ina day or an hour the more he can pay. Hence there isreally a unity of interest between employer and em-ployee. It is because they have not recognized this factthat the labor unions have made their principal mistake. November 18, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1049 What Are You Doing For the Public —and Do They Know It?. The Railway Allows the Workman with His Family to Live in the Country THE public mind lays a lot of stress at timesupon what electric railways do TO do people know and think about whatelectric railways have done FOR them? One has only to look over the daily reports ofmurder, scandal and of men and things gone wrongto realize that there is not much truly GOOD news. That is to say, the purveyors of news do notregard it as their vocation to go around diggingout and reporting things that are going aright. Nevertheless there is a market and an audiencefor news and knowledge of such things. For example, how much has the electric railwayof a given community increased property values indistricts from which perhaps it is not yet derivingan adequate return on its investment? How has the electric railway contributed to thehealth and general welfare by making it possible forpeople to live away from congested districts? What is the biggest 5 cents worth o
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