Article March 12, 1904 Issue

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The Detroit Journal thus reports a lecture by the Hon. Carroll D. Wright,—

The religion of manhood and morality is the agency toward which Carroll D. Wright, United States commissioner of labor, looks hopefully for the solution of the labor problem. His views, the result of years of experience and effort, were heard by a large audience in the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church. Capitalists and workmen gathered to hear the commissioner's lecture.

Legislation Mr. Wright regards as only an alleviation of the ills of labor. Laws in regard to factory inspection, accident liability, sanitary betterment, and shorter hours are good, but more educational than final. Arbitration he praised, and spoke of its good effect during thirty years, but this he also discarded. In the case of great labor troubles, such as the coal strike, the public has a right to intervene, he said. Socialism he discussed last and pronounced it a good thing in an individual way, but unsuited to broad application. The real solution he outlined in the following sentences:—

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