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have only just begun to feel their power and when a man gets power
at first he does not know how to use it, but he does after a bit. I
am perfectly certain it is going to turn out right in the end.
THE PRESIDENT: Some of our unions are going to work out really well.
LORD ILLIFFE: The result of the general strike in England in 1926, I think,
is that it gave unions a greater feeling of responsibility than they
felt before. They really thought that it was possible for them to do
anything and they did not consider the interest of the Nation as a
whole. Before 1926 they played their own hand; after 1926 they
realized that they have to consider the general good of the public.
In the United States, as soon as they realize that, you will find that
the union system works all right.
In these days, when you have organized capital you have to have
organized labor, and each side has to realize its responsibility for
the public good as a whole.
Q Does England recognize the principle of collective bargaining?
LORD ILLIFFE: Oh, yes; it does.
THE PRESIDENT: Did the bill pass the present House of Commons that was
pending away back in June before I went off on my trip? It was a bill
which would give the government enforcement authority in the case of
agreements which had been made in any particular industry between
labor and capital. As I recall it, there was some bill pending of
that kind and it was a government measure.
LORD ILLIFFE: I don't remember it. Was it just recently?
THE PRESIDENT: It was in June before I went on my trip.
LORD ILLIFFE: I don't remember that. You mean to enforce agreements that
have been arrived at voluntarily between capital and labor, that they
should be enforced by government?
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