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[Rothschild]

Not, which will win. Probably, whatever else is the
matter with them, the world will be the most safe
in the hands of the men who have the most courage. There are four items of courage I would like to see

duly discussed in the meetings of the trades unions in America and England. First, A discussion of trades unions. Why is it
that, when the leaders of trades unions come

to know employers better than the other men do and begin to see the other side and to have some courage about employers

and to become practicable and reasonable, the unions drop them?
Second, Why is it that, in a large degree, the big employers, when they succeed in getting skilled representatives
or managers who come to know and to understand their labouring
men better than they do, do _not_ drop them? Why is it that, day by day, on all sides in America and England, one sees the employing class advancing men who have a genius for being believed in, to at first questioned, and then to almost unquestioned,
control of their business? If this is true, does it not seem on the whole that industry is safer

in the hands of employers who have courage for both sides and who see both sides than of employees who do not? Does not the remedy for trades unions and employees, if they want to get control, seem to

be, instead of fighting, to see if they cannot see both
sides quicker, and see them better, than their employers do? Third, A discussion of efficiency in a National Labour Party from the point of view of the trend of national
efficiency in business. Apparently the most efficient and shrewd business men in England and America are the men who are running what might be called lubricated industries--who are making their industries succeed on the

principle of sympathetic, smooth-running, mutual interests. If the successful modern business man who owns factories is not running each factory
as a small civil war, is
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