" He said this toward
the minister, as if he did not wish to be thought hard; and, in fact, he
was a very kindly man.
"Yes," replied the minister, "that is one of the most sinister features of
the situation. They seem really to regard their employers as their
enemies. I don't know how it will end."
"I know how it would end if I had my way," said the professor. "There
wouldn't be any labor unions, and there wouldn't be any strikes."
"That is all very well," said the lawyer, from that judicial mind which I
always liked in him, "as far as the strikes are concerned, but I don't
understand that the abolition of the unions would affect the impersonal
process of 'laying off.' The law of demand and supply I respect as much as
any one--it's something like the constitution; but, all the same, I should
object extremely to have my income stopped by it every now and then. I'm
probably not so wasteful as a working-man generally is; still, I haven't
laid by enough to make it a matter of indifference to me whether my income
went on or not. Perhaps the professor has." The professor did not say, and
we all took leave to laugh.
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