Americanism in the Present Crisis.

Discusses the widespread discontent of industrial workers in the U.S. Demands of workers upon their employers for considerable increases of wages, eight hour day or less, improved working conditions, and for the recognition of their unions; Reasons for the aggressive unrest in labor; Stand of the opponents for the labor will; Salutary ingredients in the better American tradition which pugnacious Americans are in danger of ignoring and which if ignored will shatter moral integrity; Rejection of the government of discussion on whether demands of labor in any particular controversy is justifiable or not; Defense of the employers and their supporters in the press to explain this behavior by appeals to popular passion and prejudice which are murderous of free and fair discussion; Attitudes of the employers towards the workers is similar to the establishment of autocratic government in American industry without the consent of the governed; Assertion of the author that the real remedy of social salvation and appeasement consists in framing and testing of such a new body of social law, method and practice.