Industrial concerns which have adopted some form of industrial government such as here described find it advantageous to establish a department to supervise their relations with their employes and to represent them in litigation and negotiation. Positions are thus created for men who have been trained in economics, political science, law and business, and who have talent for negotiating, pleading, instructing and social service work.

Principles Revealed by Experience

In the nine-year experience with the Hart, Schaffner & Marx arrangement, most of the fundamental issues which arise in the employer-employee relation have been met and adjudicated. These typical cases have revealed principles which may some day help to form an established code of governing rules for industry and supplanting the present method of competitive bargaining and conflicts settled by economic strength.

And that, after all, is the chief significance of the scheme. If it be argued that this experiment has been tried under ideal conditions, it may be answered that prophetic experiments must always be tried under good conditions before they can be approved or condemned.

If successful they can then be tried elsewhere, and the nine years' success of this experiment now becomes a challenge to forward looking workers and employers who want to take the first step in the journey to industrial peace.

Will they accept the challenge of continue to drift no-whither in the bottomless bog of threatening anarchy?