Chapter V: Group Morality in the Labor Movement

Industrial changes which belong to the community
as a whole have unfortunately divided it into
two camps 124

These are typified by Employers’ Associations and
Trades Unions each developing a group morality 125

Trade Unions at present illustrate the eternal compromise
between the inner concept and the outer
act 127

Present moment one of crisis in Trades Union development 128

Newly organized unions in war state of development
responsible for serious mistakes 130

Tacit admission that a strike is war made during the
Teamsters’ Strike in Chicago in 1905 132

Temporary loss of belief in industrial arbitration 134

Teamsters’ Strike not adjudicated in court threw the
entire city into state of warfare 136

New organizations of employers exhibit traits
of militant youth 138

Public although powerless to intervene, sees grave
social consequences 140

Division of community into classes; increase of race
animosity; spirit of materialism 141

Class prejudice created among children still another
social consequence 142

Disastrous effect of prolonged warfare upon the
labor movement itself 144

Real effort of trades unions at present is for recognition
of the principle of collective bargaining 145

Trades unions are forced to correct industrial ills
inherent in the factory system itself 146

Illustration from limitation of output 147

Illustration from attitude towards improved machinery 148

Disregard of the machine as a social product makes
for group morality on the part of the owner and
employees 149

Contempt resulting from group morality justifies
method of warfare 150