Goodwill Among Men: Industry's Responsibility A manifesto urging the supreme necessity at the present' moment of goodwill among men in the industrial as well as in the political sphere, has been prepared by the Industrial League and Council, of which Viscount Burnham and Mr. G. H. Roberts, m.p., are the presidents. It is signed by a large number of members of Parliament and others, who endorse. the efforts of this organization to improve the relations between employers and employed; and it is of interest to note that among the earliest of the signatures received was that of the Prime Minister. The theory and importance of individual responsibility are emphasized in the mani festo; if a spirit of mutual understanding is to be obtained, every class, employer and employed alike, must, it is urged, endeavour to fulfil its obligations.
Goodwill among men is (the manifesto says) the one thing that can save civilization. But this goodwill is not, and cannot, be, limited to statesmen and their military advisers. The real ruler of the world to-day is commerce.
It is only the worker who can "build up what the soldier has destroyed.
The full text of the manifesto is as follows:
All thinking men and women agree that the world is in desperate need of goodwill, that ce-operation is a vital necessity if we are to gain a world of peace, prosperity and happiness, Everyone realizes with something akin to distress that even the terrible war through which we have so recently passed has not satiated the human appetite for revenge and oppression abroad and dissension at home. The memory of those who died, the thought of the ideals for which they (laid down their lives, do not avail to stay the spread of conflict in one or another of its many forms. It may be that the real cause of our inability to restore tranquillity to Europe is our failure to grasp the measure of our individual responsibility.
The world, after all, is made up of States, and States are represent-very largely by associations created for political or industrial ends. What we desire and demand is that the States should keep the peace as between themselves. What we forget is that a State is no more than an aggregate of individuals giving allegiance to some form of government. There can be no war where individuals are united in the pursuit of peace. There can be no peace where large bodies of men ara bent upon war. A_ perfect human relation between ourselves and foreign nations and at home
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