Article July 6, 1929 Issue

Signs of the Times

Rose C. Feld, Angus S. Hibbard with contributions from Edward Howard Griggs, Felix G. Robinson, James Baillie, Ernest C. Wilson, James S. West

[Dr. Edward Howard Griggs, as quoted in the Boston Evening Transcript, Massachusetts]

The storm center in our current society is the problem of industrial relations. The heart of the problems is a wrong human attitude, caused by the misuse of power in the past. It can be corrected only by the consistent right use of power by those who hold it to-day. The one possibility of a peaceful solution of the industrial conflict lies in the substitution of humanism for sheer commercialism in business and industry. Commercialism is the system aiming at profits alone. Humanism is production and distribution for human service, with profits subordinated but never ignored. . . .

You cannot buy human effort with money alone; and that is where commercialism breaks down is practice. Only as the laborer is recognized as a human being, working with others in a common cause, is it possible to secure officient effort and results satisfactory to both sides. . . . Only when one feels one is a man among men, cooperating with others in a common cause, can there be creative joy in work. Then it is possible, however small one's niche.

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