As an indication of those interferences with shop administration which, with the growth of scientific management, the unions will be called upon to abandon, the passage is significant. But progressive labor men will fail to find in it any glimmer of understanding on the part of the scientific managers of the larger democratic safeguards of unionism. Who, for example, is to set the base rates from which the wages of any given line of craftsmen are to be scientifically built up and calculated?
Character (Boston) publishes the following resolutions adopted by W. E. Wroe and Company, a Chicago paper house. They are written in the first person, thus making them apply to the man who runs and reads as well as the man who formulated them:
I will be square, fair, and just towards all my fellow-men, and by fellow-men I mean, not only those I meet in a social way, but my associates and employes in business.
I will keep myself clean and decent, and my desires worthy of a true man.
I will listen to the dictates of my conscience.
I will do my best in everything I undertake, and will undertake nothing unless I can give it the best there is in me.
I will speak only optimistic, uplifting words—nothing which can possibly bring pain to my fellow-men merely to give gratification to my own fancies.
I will remember that life embodies giving as well as taking and that what I receive depends entirely upon what I give.
I will be thankful for life because it gives me a chance to work and accomplish.