Recent Trend in the Organized Labor Movement

ences that help or hinder his capacity to produce. But under present-day conditions, with large scale production and mergers, no single person or group can know all that is happening. Impersonal relationships have confused thinking on labor relations because they have obscured what goes on in the minds of workers. Yet the motivating influences lie in the realms of the mind and upon the release of its forces depends the success of production policies. Wherever human beings are denied opportunities which are comparable to their capacities, the causes of unrest begin to accumulate. The important thing about human beings is their aspirations and ideals. For them men sacrifice all. Out of such situations was born the labor movement which was first of all a protest against injustice. The roots of the labor movement are imbedded in ideals of justice and human freedom. It is a protest against waste of human possibilities and human misery

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