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Mr. Henry White, secretary of the United Garment Workers of America and amember of the Industrial Committee of the National Civic Federation, speaking ofthe National Civic Federation soon after its inception, said: To fall into oneanother's arms, to avow friendship, to express regret at the injury which has beendone, would not alter the facts of the situation. Workingmen will continue todemand more pay, and the employer will naturally oppose them. The readiness andability of the workmen to fight will, as usual, largely determine the amount of theirwages or their share in the product. . . But when it comes to dividing the proceeds, there is the rub. We can also agree that the larger the product through theemployment of labor-saving methods the better, as there will be more to bedivided, but again the question of the division. . . . A Conciliation Committee, havingthe confidence of the community, and composed of men possessing practicalknowledge of industrial affairs, can therefore aid in mitigating this antagonism, inpreventing avoidable conflicts, in bringing about a truce; I use the word 'truce'because understandings can only be temporary. Here is a man who might have owned cattle on a thousand hills, been a lumberbaron or a railroad king, had he been born a few years sooner. As it is, he remains inhis class, is secretary of the United Garment Workers of America, and is sothoroughly saturated with the class struggle that he speaks of the dispute betweencapital and labor in terms of war, -workmen fight with employers; it is possible toavoid some conflicts; in certain cases truces may be, for the time being, effected.Man being man and a great deal short of the angels, the quarrel over the division ofthe joint product is irreconcilable. For the last twenty years in the United States, there has been an average of over a thousand strikes per year; and year by yearthese strikes increase in magnitude, and the front of the labor army grows moreimposing. And it is a class struggle, pure and simple. Labor as a class is fighting withcapital as a cla

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