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29 Animals 1 (1896-1897)

handle is hein.journals/animals29 and id is 1 raw text is: A to Ajimal The American Hum~ane dut ce, otcu 1cto /QGLORY TO . f s PEACE ON EARTH, * -vKINDNESS, JUSTICE O AND MERCY TO EvEnY LivING & A. CREATURE. Q 4 V V 0 , 0l,_ O? VJP .Ccr ~ 1 Co pOR I~M.s~ I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.- COWPER. Vol. 29. Boston, June, 1896. No. 1. MISS MARSHALL SAUNDERS, Author of Beautiful Joe, and who was led to write that book by reading one of our American Humane Education Society's copies of Black Beauty, and seeing our prize offers for other humane stories. MALAGA, SPAIN. HOW A MALAGA MANUFACTURER WAS FOLLOWED TO His GRAVE LAST YEAR BY ABOUT 30,000 OF HIs FELLOW CITIZENS. OF INTEREST TO EVERY AMERICAN CAPITALIST. Our readers will remember that in behalf of our American Humane Education Society, we offered two $100 prizes for the best plans of settling the difficulties between capital and labor,- and that we have sent very widely over our own country and the world, the two essays which (out of ninety- five from writers in twenty-two states) won the prizes. One of these pamphlets went to D. N. Burke, Esq., United States Consul at Malaga, Spain, and led him to write us how the difficulty had been solved in that city. Mr. Burke's letter being too long for our columns, we sent it to our nearest neighbor, The Evening Tran- script, in which it appeared Saturday, May 2d. It seems that there were two cotton mills in Malaga, side by side. In one during some 40 years they have been troubled with quarrels and strikes. In the other, employing about 2000 operatives during about 40 years, there has been -only peace, harmony, mutual respect and kindness. We will give a few quotations to show how this happened: In Malaga to-day exists a very striking and practical working of what the law of kindness, as applied by an employer to employees, has effected. fHow during all these years, in which so many changes have taken place, there has been no strike, no grumbling, no unrest, no complaints, no whisper of discontent? Have higher wages been paid in this mill than in the other? No. Have the hours of labor been fewer? No. Has the work been less laborious or fatiguing than in the other? No. Is there a different class of persons employed in this mill than the other? No. It is simply this: Senor Don Carlos Larios, the owner of the mill and the employer of the operatives, has applied the law of kindness to his employees. As every one says, he treated them well, he treated them kindly; he recog- nized that his employees were flesh and blood, as he was. He realized that when hurt they felt the pain just as he would; when without food they were hungry, just as he would be. He, in fact, substituted the law of kindness for the practice of greed. If an employee was sick, he sent a doctor to look after him and paid for the necessary medicines. In case the employee's illness continued, he paid on recovery the wages the person would have received had he or she been at work during the time. In case of the death of the employee, the wages went to the family of the deceased, and besides, if the cir. cumstances of the family were such as to require it, he defrayed the expenses of burial. When his operatives married he helped to set them up in housekeeping by presenting to the married couple several household articles which are in- dispensable for those entering such a state. Extraordinary diligence and care on the part of the employee in his or her work, or greater activity displayed by an operative, was duly recompensed in some way at some time by the proprietor of the mill; and every operative be- ing aware of this sought to do his very best. The operatives had no labor organization. They needed none. Through this law of kind- ness the business of the mill was conducted. Discord, dissatisfaction, discontent, unrest and strikes were not on the programme of this mill. They had no use for labor agitators. If an operative had any ground of complaint he went at once to Senor Larios. The two thousand employees loved Don Carlos as they would a father; and if anyone had spoken ill of him in the presence of any employee, the employee would have resented it as quickly as if the ill-spoken word were uttered about the employee himself. He sought to follow the teachings of the Divine Master in doing to others what he would that they should do to him, and so when at the age of 75 he went on the 21st of last January to his God, his body was followed to the cemetery by about 30,000 Malaga's citizens. We wish that every capitalist in America would imitate his example. GEO. T. ANGELL.

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